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Summary: Should be passed out at churches
Review: This book should be read by everyone who calls themselves "Christian."Anytime I get to feeling life is too tough,and I start feeling like God isn't close,this book and the book of Job are the books to get me back to reality.When you read the book of martyrs and you read the horrible ways these Christians were tortured and killed you realize you have no reason to complain and every reason to be thankful.Thankful not only to Jesus Christ and the apostles, but to the Christians all over the world who are being killed every day for the Gospel.If you have ever wondered how the apostles died, this book tells you.Incidentally, John was the only apostle who died of old age.Humbling and educational
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Summary: Anti-Catholic Propoganda of the Elizabethan Era
Review: This volume has no value save to render suspect any historical work published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. How sad to see an old and respected company abandon any semblance of literary and historical scruples. A horrendous disfigurement of Foxe's historical work, this book lists no editor -- and after examining the contents, the reason seems obvious -- no person could claim responsibility without sacrificing their reputation. A complete abomination! Consider: Not only has much of John Foxe's wonderful work been stripped from this edition, but what remains has been largely mangled and diluted. Unproven stories, widely known as fable and/or tradition, have been inserted and presented as Foxe's writing (or even worse, as historical facts) with no disclaimers. What little footnoting appears is mere window dressing, as most quotes and "facts" are completely undocumented. No bibliography; no index. Interpolation runs rampant throughout the volume, the most notable example being the grafting-in of an entire chapter that Foxe did not write! (A queer apologetic essay on John Calvin -- apparently an editorial stratagem) Find a good used (preferably older) version -- this is garbage.
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Summary: We can learn much from history's skeletons
Review: Whenever someone opens this book, they are grabbing a shovel, and with each passing chapter exhuming a new skeleton. The Church of Rome would be very pleased if these bones would remain peacefully buried in their churchyard caskets, but alas, what was done in the darkness is now revealed in the light.
No true Christian can fully ignore the brutality, the racks, the searing fires, the strangulations, thumbscrews, beheadings, spearings, and crucifixions that the early Christian martyrs endured for the sake of spreading the Gospel seed.
Every Christian should read the gruesome stories beginning with stoning of Steven (the first martyr) and continuing on into the ages of the Protestant reformation and hideous inquisitions devised by Satan to "purge" the fruit of Jesus Christ from this world.
Every born-again believer in Christ should know the story of William Tyndale, and the price he paid so the world could have an English New Testament.
Recently, I was surfing the online Catholic encyclopedia and did a search on Tyndale and Wycliffe. What I found disturbed me. The Church of Rome evidently still deems these men heretics. No apologies, no repentence for burning Tyndale at the stake, and I believe that if she could, she'd burn him and every Protestant pastor and evangelist she'd get her hands on all over again. According to the search I made, John Foxe was a liar, a deceiver and a criminal.
It is truly disturbing that the Roman Church is still so successful in disguising her true identity, even despite the wealth of historical evil hanging on her clothsline.
Please, if you are a born-again, bloodwashed believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (a Christian), and if Jesus lives inside your heart and has opened the knowledge of God to you, through the Holy Spirit, and if you read the scriptures and have a personal relationship with Christ, then please, please, please read this book and be humbled by the true pioneers of early Christianity.
Don't get mad and attempt to justify (or even deny, as some have tried) the motives of the Church of Rome, because Satan is a liar. Remember, Satan always provides an imitation for the real things of God. If God has founded a Church, Satan will provide a cheap imitation. If God sent His Christ, Satan will send his antichrist.
Can we learn much from history? Do dead men really tell no tales?
Ask the skeletons buried in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (and then confirm the historical data through a Webster's encyclopedia or any other reputable, secular source) and come up with your own conclusion. And remember this: the Church of Rome herself WILL NOT DENY nor APOLOGIZE for burning and torturing these Christian men; after all, it was done for the glory of her god.
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