New book of martyrs, or, Complete Christian martyrology : including the lives and transactions of all those contained in Fox's book of martyrs : as also those of other Christian writers on the same subject in various parts of the world : particularly the learned Eusebius, Burnet, Dorotheus, Theodorus ... Fleetwood, &c. &c. L containing a full, ample, correct, 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 martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, disciples, 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 late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. with a sketch of the martyrdoms of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world : ... the whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious lives and memoirs never before published : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southwell, Henry

Language:

English

Place of Publication:

1785