Softcover edition.This book has not been out of print since John Foxe had the first English edition printed in 1596. From chapter one we read, "The Dreadful martyrdoms we shall now describe arose from the persecution of the Christians by pagan fury in the primitive ages of the church, during three hundred years, until the time of Constantine the Great. The first martyr to our holy religion was its blessed Founder Himself, who was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, condemned under Pontius Pilate, and crucified on Calvary." From the back cover: This is a book that will never die--one of the great Christian classics. Written with passion and tenderness, it tells the dramatic, true stories of men, women, and children who, in the face of indescribable persecution, gave their lives for the sake of Christ. Covering the broad sweep of church history from the early church to the beginning of American foreign missions in the early 1800s, FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS continues to inspire and strengthen countless Christians with a vision of faith that, both in life and in death, commits itself utterly to the Lord of Life. Presented here in its most complete form, this book brings to life days when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid...climbed the steep ascent of heaven amid peril, toil, and pain." "After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influence early Protestant sentiment as the BOOK OF MARTYRS. 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." James Miller Dodds in ENGLISH PROSE Table of Contents:

1. History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecution under Nero
2. The Ten Primitive Persecutions
3. Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
4. Papal Persecutions
5. An Account of the Inquisition
6. An Account of the Persecutions in Italy under the Papacy
7. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wycliffe
8. An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia under the Papacy
9. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
10. General Persecutions in Germany
11. An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
12. The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
13. An Account of the Life of John Calvin
14. An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland, prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
15. An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland during the Reign of Henry VIII
16. Persecutions in England during the Reign of Queen Mary
17. Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacres of 1641
18. The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
19. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
20. An Account of the Life of John Wesley
21. Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, during the Years 1814 and 1820
22. The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions

• Title: Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Item#: B96000
• ISBN: 0-310-24391-2
• Size: 370 pages
• Length: 8.00
• Width: 5.25
• Weight: 0.7
• Copyright: 1967