The new and complete book of martyrs, or, An universal history of martyrdom : being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period, including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the martyrdom of the apostles, evangelists, and other primitive Christians, the ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors, the persecutions in Persia, under Saphores: and the persecutions under the Arian Vandals, the martyrdom of the missiionaries in China: the persecutions in the East-Indies: the barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: and the cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia, the persecutions exercised by the papists in various parts of Europe, together with a complete history of the martyrdoms of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world: the persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous nations, the whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions /
by: Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Published: (1794)