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Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

John Foxe
Kings, Church, World
John Foxe (2001). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, Barbour Publishing

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

John Foxe
Christian, Flower, Heaven
John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

John Foxe
Rocks, Enemy, Boisterous
John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1856). “Fox's Book of Martyrs, Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs ... to which is Added an Account of the Inquisition ... with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers”, p.480

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

John Foxe
Taken, Mean, Faces
John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

John Foxe
Use, Littles, Wealth
John Foxe (2012). “Foxe's Book Of Martyrs”, p.89, Jazzybee Verlag

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.

John Foxe
Venice, Years, Matter
John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

John Foxe
Rome, Years, Church
John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1830). “Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs; from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Period. To which is Added an Account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew Massacre in France, the General Persecution Under Louis XIV, the Massacres in the Irish Rebellions in the Years 1641, and 1798, Rise, Progress, and Persecutions of the People Commonly Called Quakers, Together with an Account of the Western Martyrology, Or Bloody Assizes; with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers ...”, p.410

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

John Foxe
Christian, Mercy, Jew
John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

John Foxe
Fear, Loss, People
John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (1978). “Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs”, p.33, Zondervan

With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

John Foxe
Men, Small Numbers, People

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