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.

SECT. I.-Brief History of our Savior.

SECT. II.-The Lives, Sufferings, and Mar-

tyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, &c.

SECT. III-The first Primitive Persecution

under Nero.

SECT. IV. The second Primitive Persecu-

Son, under Domitian.

SECT. V. The third Primitive Persecution,

under the Roman Emperors.

SECT. VI. The fourth Primitive Persecu-

tion, under the Roman Emperors, which com-

menced A. D. 162.

SECT. L-Persecutions of the Christians in |

Persia

SECT. IL-Persecutions by the Arian Here-

tics

SECT. VII.-The fifth General Persecution,

under the Roman Emperors.

SECT. III-Persecutions under Julian the

Apostate.

SECT. VIII. The sixth General Persecu-

tion, under the Roman Emperors.

SECT. IX. The seventh General Persecu-

tion, under the Roman Emperors.

SECT. X.-The eighth General Persecution,

under the Roman Emperors.

BOOK II.

SECT. XI. The ninth General Persecution,

under the Roman Emperors.

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 from the fifth to the (
trenth Century.

SECT. XII.-The tenth General Persecution,

under the Roman Emperors.

SECT. IV.-Persecutions of the Christians by

the Goths, &c.

SECT. V.-Persecutions of the Christians by

the Arian Vandals.

BOOK III.

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

TENTH CENTURIES.

SECT. II.-Persecutions from the eighth
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.

DX/A

NEW EDITION: EMBELLISHED WITH FIFTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS.

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