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Imagine a Time ...
When it was forbidden to own a Bible or any
portion thereof "on pain of death"?
When it was illegal for two or three to gather
in the Messiah's name or to simply break the bread together with other
believers?
When to possess a small scrap of paper with a
verse of scripture scrawled upon it was a capital offense?
When to teach your children the Ten Commandments
or the Beatitudes meant facing arrest, being shackled and forgotten in a
dungeon, and finally being burnt to death at the stake?
There once was a day in history...
When engaging in these simple acts of faith
meant risking liberty and life.
A day when the "Church" -
rather than being a source of hope and light -
was a dark bastion of idolatry, superstition and
moral corruption.
A day when the
Bible was a forbidden
book!
FOXE's
BOOK of MARTYRS
Edited by William Byron
Forbush
This is a book that will never die -- one of the great
English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to
life the days when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid,"
"climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain."
"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly
influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time
it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an
arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of
edification."
CONTENTS
About the author John Fox and
this book
Chapter I -- History of Christian Martyrs to the First
General Persecutions Under Nero
Chapter II -- The Ten Primitive Persecutions
Chapter III -- Persecutions of the Christians in
Persia
Chapter IV -- Papal Persecutions
Chapter V -- An Account of the Inquisition
Chapter VI -- An Account of the Persecutions in Italy,
Under the Papacy
Chapter VII -- An Account of the Life and Persecutions
of John Wickliffe
Chapter VIII -- An Account of the Persecutions in
Bohemia Under the Papacy
Chapter IX -- An Account of the Life and Persecutions
of Martin Luther
Chapter X -- General Persecutions in Germany
Chapter XI -- An Account of the Persecutions in the
Netherlands
Chapter XII -- The Life and Story of the True Servant
and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
Chapter XIII -- An Account of the Life of John Calvin
Chapter XIV -- Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
Chapter XV -- An Account of the Persecutions in
Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
Chapter XVI -- Persecutions in England During the
Reign of Queen Mary
Chapter XVII -- Rise and Progress of the Protestant
Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641
Chapter XVIII -- The Rise, Progress, Persecutions,
and Sufferings of the Quakers
Chapter XIX -- An Account of the Life and
Persecutions of John Bunyan
Chapter XX -- An Account of the Life of John Wesley
Chapter XXI -- Persecutions of the French Protestants
in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
Chapter XXII -- The Beginnings of American Foreign
Missions
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will save)
would
affirm today; it's the same truth He
attested to as he walked this earth some
2000 years ago - an exclusive way to the Father (John 14:6)
and that man, as a
sinful creature, is in need of a Saviour.(John
3:16-21).
