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Book Review |
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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______________ Have you received Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Find out how to do so on our page: Plan of Salvation ______________ Tell others about Jesus like these Christian Martyrs did: We are all called by God to share our faith (witness) with those who are not Christians. Some Bible verses that you will find helpful for doing this, and that you may want to commit to memory are found on other pages on our web site (see: Memory Verses; 2nd Set: Salvation!, Plan of Salvation, and Statement of Faith). ____________ Ambassador International First Ambassador Edition, 2005. ____________ |
Author: John Foxe (Ambassador Classics) "An Edition for the People", Prepared by: W. Grinton Berry, M.A. "After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our own time, it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification." -James Miller Dodds, "English Prose" "When one recollects that until the appearance of the Pilgrim's Progress, the common people had almost no other reading matter except the bible and Foxe's Book of Martyrs, we can understand the deep impression that this book produced; and how it served to mold the national character. Those who could read for themselves learned the full details of all the atrocities performed on the Protestant Reformers; the illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the various instruments of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling oil, and then the holy ones breathing out their souls amid the flames. Take a people just awakening to a new intellectual and religious life; let several generations of them from childhood to old age, pore over such a book, and its stories become traditions as individual and almost as potent as songs and customs on a nation's life." -Douglas Campbell, "The Puritan in Holland, England and America" |
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