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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]- E-books
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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- E-books
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A caveat against the Pretender 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 would be again in their Hands, should 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 his Protestant Subjects, upon Pain of Damnation.
Date: [1723]- E-books
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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]- E-books
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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]- E-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. - 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?]- E-books
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The True spirit of popery displayed Or, An undeniable proof, that the Church of Rome is not of a less persecuting and cruel disposition than in former times; in which the reasons are assigned why it has been thought by some that she is so.
Date: 1746- E-books
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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- E-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?]- E-books
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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]- E-books
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Fanatick moderation, exemplished in Bishop Hall's hard measure, as it was written by himself . To which is annex'd, a specimen of the unparralell'd behaviour of the sectaries, towards some others of that sacred order. As likewise, a general bill of mortality of the clergy of the city of London, who were defunct, by reason of the contagious breath of the pretended reformers of that city, from the year 1641, to the year 1647.
Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.Date: [1730?]- E-books
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The cruelties and persecutions of the Romish church display'd or, a discourse wherein is shewn, how contrary the persecuting spirit of the church of Rome is to the temper of the Christian religion, and the precepts and maxims of the gospel. To which is added, An Account of the vast Exactions and Oppressions of the Popes on this Kingdom, while it was in Subjection to the See of Rome. By a clergyman.
Morant, Philip, 1700-1770.Date: [1728]- E-books
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A passage of that great Elijah in his day, Mr. Alexander Peaden being upon the borders of Carrick and Galloway, one man only with him, or in his company, and it being the hotest time of persecution in the year 1684 or 1685, the man having waited his time, discourseth with him as followeth
Alexander PedenDate: 1713]- E-books
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Three tracts , viz. I. 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 Examin'd. II. A letter of thanks to the author of the tract intituled, A friendly admonition to Mr. Chubb. III. Some remarks on Dr. Morgan's tract, intitled, A letter to Mr. Chubb, occasioned by his two Letters to a Friend. By Tho. Chubb.
Chubb, Thomas, 1679-1747.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- E-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 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?]