CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

HISTORY OF THE FIRST TEN PERSECUTIONS OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH, FROM THE YEAR

OF OUR LORD 67, TILL THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT; DETAILING THE LIVES

AND ACTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL CHRISTIAN MARTYRS OF BOTH SEXES, IN EUROPE AND

IN AFRICA.

BOOK II.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA BY SAPORES; IN

EGYPT, &c. BY THE ARIAN HERETICS; BY JULIAN THE APOSTATE; BY THE GOTHS, VAN-

DALS, &c. &c. 1

SECT. L-Persecutions of the Christians in SECT. IV.-Persecutions of the Christians by

Persia
the Goths, &c.

BOOK III.

STORY OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, BETWEEN THE FIFTH AND THE

TENTH CENTURIES.

SECT. L-Persecutions from the fifth to the tenth Century.

A

HISTORY

OF THE

LIVES, SUFFERINGS, AND TRIUMPHANT DEATHS

OF THE

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PRIMITIVE AS WELL AS THE PROTESTANT MARTYRS

FROM THE

COMMENCEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY

TO THE

Latest Periods of Pagan and Popish Persecution:

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION; THE BARTHOLOMEW MASSACRE; THE
MASSACRE IN FRANCE, AND GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER LOUIS

XIV; THE MASSACRES OF THE IRISH REBELLION IN THE

YEAR 1641; AND THE RECENT PERSECUTIONS OF
PROTESTANTS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.

ORIGINALLY COMPOSED BY THE

REV. JOHN FOX, A. M.

NEW EDITION: EMBELLISHED WITH FIFTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS.

PHILADELPHIA:

JAMES M. CAMPBELL, 98 CHESTNUT STREET.
NEW YORK:-SAXTON & MILES.

1845.,

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