Papal usurpation and persecution, as it has been exercis'd in ancient and modern times with respect both to princes & people; A Fair Warning to all Protestants, To Guard themselves with the utmost Caution against the Encroachments & Invasions of Popery; As they value their Estates, Lives and Liberties, But above all, As they would preserve their Consciences free from the forest of all Tyrannies and Oppressions. The whole divided into two tomes, Answerable to the Subject Matter, as it relates both to Princes and People; and design'd as supplemental to the Book of martyrs, as well in the several Ages Antecedent to the Reformation, where the is found Defective; As by continuing the same most useful Part of Ecclesiastical History, Martyrology, down to these present Times. By a sincere lover of our Protestant establishment both in church and state. Viz Thomas Bray. DD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papacy--History--Early works to 1800.

Papacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],xv,[1],142,161-212,[2],vi,167,[1]p.,plates ) maps ;

Other Title:

Papal usurpation and persecution,

Place of Publication:

London : printed by Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1712.

Notes:

A sincere lover of our Protestant establishment both in church and state = Thomas Bray.

Consists of Vol. I, Parts 1 and 2; no more published.

Each part has a separate titlepage; that to Part 1 reads: 'Papal usurpation and tyranny'; Part 2, dated 1711, has a separate titlepage that reads: 'The history of the old Waldenses and Albigenses; .. ' and is a transation of John Paul Perrin' Histoire des Vaudois.

Text in first part is continuous despite pagination.

Pp.[1]-2 (lst count) exists in two settings; in one, found as an uncancelled and cancelled leaf, the drop-head title reads: 'Papal usurpation and persecution'; in the second, a cancel, the drop-head title reads: 'A supplemental collection to the Book of Martyrs'.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N11083.

OCLC:

642112525