Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or a History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant: Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
1563
Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or a History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant: Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
1563
This is not a comfortable read, and it was never meant to be. First published in 1563 during the reign of Elizabeth I, Foxe's monumental work catalogued the suffering of those who died for their Protestant faith, not as abstraction, but as visceral, intimate testimony. Here are men and women who burned at the stake, who watched their own children executed before their eyes, who sang hymns as the flames rose. Foxe collected their final words, their moments of doubt and triumphant faith, their courage and their fear. The book was an immediate sensation, becoming one of the most widely owned books in England besides the Bible, shaping how generations understood what it meant to be a Protestant in a hostile world. It frames English Protestantism as the latest chapter in a long history of faithful witnesses, from Stephen stoned outside Jerusalem to the martyrs of Mary I's reign. Four centuries later, these accounts remain unsettling precisely because they refuse to sanitize what conviction cost. For readers drawn to religious history, the Reformation, or the question of what people are capable of believing so deeply they will die for it, this book remains indispensable.
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“Mr. Latimer to say: "Be of good cheer, Ridley; and play the man. We shall this day, by God's grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out.””
— John Foxe
“The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!””
— John Foxe
“And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.””
— John Foxe
“The Jesuit turned away, saying, sarcastically, "The Protestants are impenetrable rocks." "You are mistaken," said Kutnaur, "it is Christ that is the Rock, and we are firmly fixed upon Him.””
— John Foxe
“Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.””
— John Foxe
“I maintain no doctrines of my own; what I preach are the doctrines of Christ, and for those I will forfeit my blood, and even think myself happy to suffer for the sake of my Redeemer.””
— John Foxe
“the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.””
— John Foxe
“William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry.””
— John Foxe
“the archbishop endeavored to prevail on Mr. Wishart to recant; but he was too firmly fixed in his religious principles and too much enlightened with the truth of the Gospel, to be in the least moved.””
— John Foxe
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