Christian martyrs - Early works to 1800

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The history of the martyrs epitomised A cloud of witnesses; or, The sufferers mirrour, made up of the swanlike songs, and other choice passages of a great number of martyrs and confessors, to the end of the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles; at the bar, or stake, &c. Collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Clark, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. The whole alphabetically disposed. By Thomas Mall, M.A. one of the ejected ministers, after the Reformation.
Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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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. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, &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, 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 Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. The bloody Irish Massacre; the great Spanish Invasion; the dreadful Fire of London; the shocking Gunpowder Plot; and 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 Extirpation of Protestantism. The Martyrdom of the Missionaries in China; the Persecutions in the East-Indies; the Barbarities exercised in America; and the Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - 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 Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous Nations. 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. Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, expel Superstition, and give a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind. By the Reverend Henry Southwell, LL. D. Late of Magdalin College, Cambridge; Rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, And Author of the Universal Family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 30-1779.Date: [1765?]
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An Entire new work . Fox's martyrs; or A new book of the suffereings of the faithful.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
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The good spirit of the martyrs revived: being a collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church of God, and her faithful martyrs in all the ages of the world. Contained in several Eclesiastical Histories and Chronological Accounts of the Succession of the True Church and Kingdom from the Creation, the Times of the Fathers, Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ and the Apostles. Selected and compiled by G.B. E.S. and H.H
Date: 1718
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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]