Persecution - Early works to 1800

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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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God's judgments upon tyrants Or, A history of the wicked lives and remarkable deaths of those Roman emperors who persecuted the primitive Christians. Written originally in Latin by Lactantius. Made English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gil'bert lord bishop of Sarum. By whom is prefix'd, A full view of popery. In a large preface concerning persecution.
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320.Date: 1715
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Popish cruelty display'd Being a short, but impartial history of some of the assassinations, murders, and inhumane slaughters, committed by papists upon protestants; with a particular account of the massacres of Ireland and Paris, and of the bloody inquisition. And also an estimate of the proportion of the lands of the nation, formerly possess'd by the Church of Rome, and which wou'd be again in their hands, shou'd popery return. To which is premis'd some account of popish principles; shewing that they necessarily lead to all this barbarity; and particularly, that if ever a popish prince usurp the British throne, he is bound by all that is sacred to extirpate and destroy is Protestant subjects, upon pain of damnation. Design'd as a caveat against the pretender. All that's dear to us, must be irrecoverably lost, if ever the designs of a popish pretender, bred up in the principles of the most arbitrary government, shou'd take place. Queen Anne's speech to the Parliament, April 1st, 1708.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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A second address to the inhabitants of the two great cities of London and Westminster Occasion'd by a second pastoral letter. With remarks on Scripture vindicated, and some other late writings.
Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]
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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?]