The new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed 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 Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid 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; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
- Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.
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- [1785?]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Cooke, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, [1785?]
Physical description
466, [8] p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20.
References note
ESTC T105997