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Persecution anatomiz'd or, An Answer To The Following Questions, viz. I. What Persecution for Conscience sake is? II. Whether any High-Church that Promote the Occasional Bill, may not properly be call'd Persecutors? III. Whether any Church whatever, whilst it savours of a Persecuting Spirit, is a true church? IV. Who are the greatest Promoters of a Nation's Welfare, the High-Church, or Dissenters?.
Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCV. [1705]
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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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A discourse concerning persecution , wherein the grounds upon which Christians afflict and grieve, and bereave each other of life, for their different opinions in matters of religion are examined.
Date: 1741
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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?]
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The persecution and cruelty of the church of Rome. In a discourse By Benjamin Bennet
Bennet, Benjamin, 1674-1726.Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCXLVI. [1746]