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[NewMusic]

During the days of the Puritans it was said that they had a bible on one side of the fireplace hearth and this book on the other side. It was required reading for Christians. This version is updated language and grammar since the original was printed almost 500 years ago. Reading this will change you in a good way.

https://www.amazon.com/Foxes-Book-Martyrs-Pure-Classics/dp/0882708759/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CMI68PWL4QP&keywords=foxes+book+of+martyrs&qid=1638797473&s=books&sprefix=foxes+book,aps,174&sr=1-1

 

[Pearl]

During the days of the Puritans it was said that they had a bible on one side of the fireplace hearth and this book on the other side. It was required reading for Christians. This version is updated language and grammar since the original was printed almost 500 years ago. Reading this will change you in a good way.

https://www.amazon.com/Foxes-Book-Martyrs-Pure-Classics/dp/0882708759/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CMI68PWL4QP&keywords=foxes+book+of+martyrs&qid=1638797473&s=books&sprefix=foxes+book,aps,174&sr=1-1

I thought that the Book of Martyrs was Catholic.

 

[NewMusic]

I thought that the Book of Martyrs was Catholic.

No. Actually quite the opposite. During the lifetime of John Foxe, the Catholics were doing horrible evils against the rise of protestantism. The details of what protestants went through are described in the book, but Foxe dedicated his adult life to researching the deaths of Christians starting in the 1st century. Whether that research is accurate or not, I've wondered myself, but the research of the few hundred years before and up to his own century are not debated. Then the book publishers who now own the rights to the original have added some new chapters detailing martyrdom in these past years, up to about 2006.

Some of the ugliness from the Catholics surrounded whether or not a protestant believed the eucharist to be the actual body of Christ, rather than symbolic, or for not praying to Mary, or if the pope was without error and the sole spokesperson for God. And the horrors these people went through for not compromising the truth.

 

[Mungo]

In the Reformation of the 16th century there were atrocities by both Catholics and Protestants. Much of Foxe's work before his own time is of questionable accuracy. His book was part of the propaganda war of the time and was prone to exaggeration. Protestants overlook the terrible and gruesome tortures and executions performed against Catholics. Atrocity swapping is not productive.

 

[NewMusic]

In the Reformation of the 16th century there were atrocities by both Catholics and Protestants. Much of Foxe's work before his own time is of questionable accuracy. His book was part of the propaganda war of the time and was prone to exaggeration. Protestants overlook the terrible and gruesome tortures and executions performed against Catholics. Atrocity swapping is not productive.

Regardless, the book causes Christians to become aware of atrocities saints have gone through for their love and devotion to Jesus. Good comes from reading the material.