(September 1624 – 13 January 1691)
was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends,
commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
The son of a Leicestershire weaver,
Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war.
He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith.
He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher,
for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs
Parliamentarians grew suspicious of monarchist plots and fearful that the group travelling with Fox aimed to overthrow the government: by this time his meetings were regularly attracting crowds of over a thousand. In early 1655 he was arrested at Whetstone, Leicestershire and taken to London under armed guard. In March[34] he was brought before the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell "with tears in his eyes said, 'Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other'; adding that he wished [Fox] no more ill than he did to his own soul."[35]
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Foxe's
Book of Martyrs Vol 1,
A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants,
many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication.
It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly illustrated with many woodcuts, it was the largest publishing project undertaken in Britain up to that time. Commonly known as, “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”,
the work’s full title begins with “Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church.” There were many subsequent editions, by Day, and by other editors down through the years. Foxe’s original work was enormous (the second edition filling two heavy folio volumes with a total of 2,300 pages, estimated to be twice as long as Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” This edition is much abridged from Foxe’s original. (Summary from Wikipedia)
many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication.
It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly illustrated with many woodcuts, it was the largest publishing project undertaken in Britain up to that time. Commonly known as, “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”,
the work’s full title begins with “Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church.” There were many subsequent editions, by Day, and by other editors down through the years. Foxe’s original work was enormous (the second edition filling two heavy folio volumes with a total of 2,300 pages, estimated to be twice as long as Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” This edition is much abridged from Foxe’s original. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Christianity - Biographies
Language: English
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