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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with 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 Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the public. Assisted by other ministers of the gospel. This most valuable and complete work will also include many additional articles of importance, among which are a genuine history of the persecutions of the people called Quakers; a full account of the western Martyrology or Bloody Assizes, under Judge Jefferies, in the West of England, in which many eminent Protestants suffered painful and cruel deaths, including also, a full account of the ten great persecutions under the roman emperors ... with a great number of cruelties exercised against the glorious Christian Martyrs not related in any other work of the kind whatever. With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian Martyrs in the very earliest Ages of the World. ... Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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To every moderate man in Ireland; the following ideas on the relative situation of Protestants and Catholics, are submitted.
Protestant.Date: 1792- Books
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To every moderate man in Ireland; the following ideas on the relative situation of Protestants and Catholics, are submitted.
Protestant.Date: 1792- Books
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Remarks on a late pamphlet, entitutled, The case of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland. By a Protestant.
Protestant.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A Protestant father's letter of advice to his son, in danger of being seduced to popery. Taken out of the Protestant's resolution: shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist.
Protestant.Date: 1730]- Books
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Sketch of a conference with the Earl of Shelburne. These few rough draughts were drawn up, by a friend, for the convenience of the committee of the Protestant Association, in their debate, proposed for Wednesday next, the 23d of October, on the following resolution, relative to their approbation, or disapprobation of the conduct of the president, and the other gentlemen, who were appointed a deputation by them to manage and report that conference, viz. That the committee of the Protestant Association of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, do approve of the conduct of their deputation in their conserence with the Earl of Shelburne;-and they do acknowledge their gratitude to them for their faithful discharge of duty on that occasion, in having bonne a public testimony of their zeal for the true Protestant religion.
Protestant Association (London, England)Date: [1782]- Books
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Rules and orders for the Civil Protestant Society. Richard Bentley, Theophilus Rougier, stewards.
Civil Protestant Society (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1737- Books
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A letter from a Protestant-Dissenting-Minister, to the clergy of the church of England, occasioned by the alarming growth of Popery in this Kingdom. Wherein several late Popish Publications are considered.
Protestant-Dissenting-Minister.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Thoughts on the present state of the Roman Catholics in England, and on the expediency of indulging them with a further repeal of the penal statutes. By a Protestant.
Protestant.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A brief review of the rise and progress of the Incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland. From the opening of His Majesty's Royal Charter, February 6th. 1733. to November 2d. 1748.
Incorporated Society in Dublin for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland.Date: 1748- Books
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To en archy: or, An exercitation upon a momentous question in divinity, and case of conscience : viz. whether it be lawfull for any person to act contrary to the opinion of his own consicence, formed from arguments that to him appear very probable, though not necessary or demonstrative. Where the opinions of the papists, Vasquez, Sanches, Azonius, &c. are shewed, as also the opinions of some Protestants, viz. Mr. Hooker, Bp Sanderson, Dr. Fulwood, &c. and compared with the opinions of others; the negative part of the question maintained; the unreasonableness of the popish opinions, and some Protestants, for blind obedience, detected; and many other things discoursed / By a Protestant.
ProtestantDate: Printed in the year, 1675- Books
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A Protestant's resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defnd the Protestant religion against the most cunning Jesuit or popish priest.
Protestant.Date: MDCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Ordres et reglements pour la corporation des gouverneur & directeurs de l'Hôpital pour les pauvres François Protestants, & leurs descendants, résidants dans la Grande Bretagne.
Hospital for Poor French Protestants.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The Protestant magazine; or Christian treasury. Designed to encourage a perfect knowledge of the Protestant religion.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXI.-M DCC LXXXIII.[1781-1783]- Books
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A protestant's reasons, why he cannot turn Papist: being a full answer, paragraph by paragraph, to a paper industriously dispersed; called, A Roman Catholick's reasons, why he cannot conform to the Protestant religion.
Protestant.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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A defence of the act of Parliament lately passed for the relief of Roman Catholics. Containing a true state of the laws now in force against popery. In answer to a pamphlet intitled, An appeal from the Protestant association, to the people of Great Britain, &c. In a letter to a friend. By a Protestant.
Protestant.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A Protestant's resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jusuit, or popish priest.
Protestant.Date: 1795]- Books
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A protestants resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jesuit, or popish priest.
Protestant.Date: 1714- Books
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A protestants resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jesuit, or popish-priest.
Protestant.Date: 1714- Books
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A Protestant's resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jesuite, or popish-priest.
Protestant.Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]- Books
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A protestant's resolution: shewing his reasons why he will not be a Papist. Digested Into so plain a Method of Question and Answer, that an ordinary Capacity may be able to defend the Protestant Religion against the most cunning Jesuit, or Popish Priest.
Protestant.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A protestant's reasons why he cannot turn Papist; being a full answer to a paper industriously dispersed; called, A Roman Catholick's reasons why he cannot conform to the Protestant religion.
Protestant.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A Protestant's resolution: Shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion against the most cunning Jusuit or popists priest. To which is added, the popish cross, pardons, purgatory, and their breaden God. Written by a Noble peer.
Protestant.Date: 1710- Books
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A letter from the honest Protestant Dissenters to a Rt. Revd. occasional friend.
Honest Protestant Dissenters.Date: Printed in the Year. 1702