The book of martyrs: or, the history of paganism and popery. Wherein IS Contained, I. An Account of the Sufferings and Crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the Sufferings and Martyrdoms of the Apostles and Primitive Christians, under the Ten Heathen Persecutions: And also the Life of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. II. A Display of the horrid Persecutions and Cruelties, exercised upon Protestants by the Papists, for many Hundred Years past; as the Persecut on of the Waldenses and Albigenses; the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont and France, with the Particulars of the bloody Massacre at Paris, the Siege of Rochel, &c. the Persecution of the Protestants in the Principality of Orange, Bohemia, Hungary, the Palatinate, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, with an Account of the bloody Inquisition; Portugal and the Low-Countries. III. The English Martyrology; containing an Account of the Sufferings of the Protestant Martyrs in the Reigns of Henry IV. V. Viii. and that of Queen Mary; wherein is occasionally introduced some short Memorials of the Reformation. IV. The Romish Persecutions in Scotland. V. The Romish Persecution in Ireland. VI. A short Account of the Spanish Invasion, 1588. Vii. The Gun-Powder Treason, 1605. Viii. The Fire of London, 1666. IX. The horrid Popish-Plot in 1678. X. The Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. XI. The detestable Conspiracies of the Papists, and their Adherents, against King William III. XII. God's Judgments upon Persecutors. XIII. A short Account of the most material Errors now taught in the Romish Church. Abstracted from the best authors, both antient and modern.

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M,DCC,LXV. [1765]