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Book of martyrs. An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion.
Date: [1795]- Pictures
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Saint Cecilia: she enables the bodies of Christian martyrs to be buried. Engraving by G. Fabbri after D.M. Fratta after G. Cavedone.
Cavedone, Giacomo, 1577-1660.Date: 1776Reference: 4627i- Pictures
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Above, two martyrs, Dirick Carver and Margery Polley are burnt at the stake: below, two martyrs, John Denley and Thomas Iveson are burnt alive at the stake. Etching by G. Terry.
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Above, the martyrs Cicely Ormes and Margaret Thurston are burnt back to back at the stake in Colchester and the burning at a stake in Islington of the martyrs Ralph Alderton, Margery Austoo and R. Roth; below the burning of the martyr Cicely Ormes in Norwich. Etching by G. Terry.
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The lives and sufferings of the English martyrs, who were executed and burnt for their religion, from the reign of Henry the Ivth, to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I. and to the reformation of the Church of England. Published by Bishop Burnet, for the Use of all Christian Families.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- 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 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 to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed by the Rev. John Fox, M.A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by a minister of the gospel. ... With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian martyrs in the very earliest ages of the world. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions, from the earliest ages of the world to the present time. Calculated to promote the Protestant religion, and expel superstition from the minds of mankind. Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1795?]- Books
Éfés dammîm. A series of conversations at Jerusalem between a patriarch of the Greek Church and a Chief Rabbi of the Jews, concerning the malicious charge against the Jews of using Christian blood ... / By J.B. Levinsohn. Translated from the Hebrew as a tribute to the memory of the martyrs at Damascus, by Dr. L. Loewe.
Levinsohn, Isaac Baer, 1788-1860.Date: 1841- Books
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The book of martyrs; or, Christian martyrology: containing an authentic and historical account of many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ in different parts of the world. Selected from the works of fox, cave, southwell, wright, &c. With accounts of very singular judgments against persecutors, a variety of anecdotes, and many curious memoirs. The whole forming an interesting history of persecutions, calculated to promote true religion.
Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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Above, four martyrs are chained to a post and burnt at the stake in Canterbury; below, a procession of twenty-two prisoners tied together and brought from Colchester to London, presumably for trial. Etching with engraving by G. Terry.
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Above, martyrs Woodman, Steves, Mainard, Hosman, Wood, Morris, Burges, Ashdon and Groves are burnt together at the stake in Lewes; below, the hand of Rose Allins is held over a flaming torch by Edmund Tyrill. Etching by G. Terry.
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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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A short account of the life and sufferings of Elias Neau, upon the gallies, and in the dungeons of Marseilles; for the constant profession of the Protestant religion. Newly translated from the French, by John Christian Jacobi, gent. This treatise was printed at the end o The new book of martyrs, lately published by the recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Bateman, Rector of St. Bartholomew the Great, in London; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon.
Morin, J.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A selection of remarkable events in the lives of the primitive fathers, eminent reformers, and martyrs, in the Christian Church: Including A Concise History of the Lives, Sufferings and Deaths, of the Noblemen, Bishops, and other distinguished Persons, who have valiantly defended the Protestant Religion; Several Striking Anecdotes; And, an Account of singular Judgments inflicted by Almighty God, upon many cruel Persecutors of his Church. The whole Calculated To inspire the Reader with sublime Sentiments of the Holy Scriptures, and to check the growing Infidelity of the Age. By S. Staughton.
Staughton, S.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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The history of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the lives of his apostles and evangelists, and other eminent persons and martyrs, Who first propagated the Christian Religion. Containing, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences on which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. Together with Satisfactory Answers to the Objections made against our Holy Religion by the Jew, the Gentile, and the Deist, or Free-Thinker of he present Age. By the Rev. Thomas Stackhouse, A. M. Late Vicar of Beenham, in Berkshire.
Stackhouse, Thomas, approximately 1680-1752.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The history of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the lives of his apostles and evangelists. And other eminent persons and martyrs, who first propagated the Christian religion. Containing the whole doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences on which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. Together with satisfactory answer to the objections made against our holy religion by the Jew, the Gentile, and the Deist, or Free-Thinker, of the present Age. By S. Nelson, D.D. Author of the Universal Bible.
Nelson, S.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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There is no crime for those who have Christ : religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire / Michael Gaddis.
Gaddis, Michael, 1970-Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
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The events & appearances of the present times, viz. a view of the great city divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations falling, the islands fleeing away, and the mountains vanishing; A glance of the angel with the great chain in his hand, binding the dragon, that old serpent, the Devil and satan. Thoughts, on the origin of thrones and those that sit on them, with the appereance of a sudden resurrection of the spiritual liveliness of the martyrs in the Christian Church. In a letter from a countryman, to his youngest brothers, a student in the University of Edinburgh.
J. P.Date: 1797- Books
Contextualizing miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500 : new historical approaches / edited by Matthew M. Mesley and Louise E. Wilson.
Date: 2014- Books
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer, Nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his holy apostles, evangelists, and other primitive martyrs, Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, the Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity Against all the Objections of Atheists, Deists, and Infidels, who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The whole being calculated to promote The Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a Firm Faith in the Merits of our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of Every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the Christian's Dictionary, And of the History of the Holy Bible. Published by the King's Authority.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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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.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; containing the genealogy of our glorious Redeemer: His Nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his holy Apostles, evangelists, and other primitive martyrs. Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, The Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity against all the Objections of Atheists, Deists, and the infidels of the present Age, who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The Whole being calculated, To promote the Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a Firm Faith in the Merits of our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the History of the Holy Bible.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXVII [1767]- Books
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The life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer; his nativity, preservation, circumcision, Baptism, fasting, temptation, ministry, doctrine, calling the apostles, miracles, parables, travels, transfiguration, passion, institution of the sacrament, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, appearance, and ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his Holy Apostles, evangelists, and other primitive martyrs, who have laid down their lives in the glorious cause of Christianity, the foundation on which all our hopes of eternal happiness are fixed. To which will be added, a full defence of Christianity against all the objections of atheists, deists, and the insidels of the present age, who have endeavoured to place mankind on a level with the beasts that perish. The whole being calculated to promote the knowledge of our holy religion, a firm faith in the merits of our blessed redeemer, and the practice of every Christian virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D.D.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The Book of martyrs: or The history of paganism and popery, from the birth of Christ, to the last conspiracy against King William the third. Containing, 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; as the persecution of the waddenses 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 Persecutions 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 co... papists, and their ... king William III. XII. God's judgment upon ...ors. XIII. A short account of the most material errors now taught in the Romish church. The whole designed as an antidote against the present dreadful Growth of Popery and to preserve to us the memoirs of those holy men and women, together with their histories, acts, sufferings, and their constant deaths, willingly and ... for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, and for refusing to comply with Popish doctrines and superstitions.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Pictures
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Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing John Fox in a decorative panel. Engraving.
Date: 1811Reference: 43159i- Books
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The Protestant almanack for the year 1694 : the creation of the world 5700, the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1694, England received the Christian faith 1504, Martin Luther wrote against the Pope 178, our first deliverance from popery by K. Edward VI 146, our second deliverance from popery by Q. Elizabeth 135, the horrid design of the Gun-Powder Plot 89, the burning of the city of London 28, our third deliverance from popery by K. Will. & Q. Mary 6 : being the second after bissextile or leap-year, wherein bloody aspects ... of the papacy ... are described, in the change of the moon, some probable conjectures concerning the weather, the eclipses, the moon place in the zodiac, and an account of some principal martyrs ... for the meridian of Babylon, wherein the Pope is elevated an hundred and fifty degrees above ... and may without sensible errour, indifferently serve the whole papacy / by Philoprotest a well-willer to the Mathematicks.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698Date: 1694