THE NEW AND COMPLETE BOOK of MARTYRS; OR, An Universal History of Martyrdom: BEING FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, Revised and Corrected, with Additions and great Improvements.CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES, PERSECUTIONS and SUFFERINGS of the HOLY MARTYRS; AND THE MANY DREADFUL Persecutions against the Church of CHRIST in all Parts of the World, BY PAGANS, JEWS, TURKS, PAPISTS, AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESENT PERIOD.INCLUDING THE Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST; WITH THE Martyrdom of the APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, and other PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS.The Ten Great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors.The Persecutions in Persia, under Saphores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. The Martyrdom of the Missionaries in China: The Persecutions in the East-Indies: The Barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: And the Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia.The Persecutions exercised by the Papists in various Parts of Europe.Together with a COMPLETE HISTORY of the MARTYRDOMS of The FAITHFUL and VIRTUOUS in the First Ages of the World: The Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous Nations.THE WHOLE FORMING AT ONCE A General Christian Martyrology, and a Complete History of Persecutions.The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…John Foxe, 1794

Containing the PERSECUTIONS of the CHRISTIANS in Persia, under SAPORES; the PERSECUTIONS under the ARIAN Heretics; those under JULIAN the Apostate, the GOTHS, VANDALS, &c. and in various other parts of the WORLD.

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CHAP. III. Containing the PERSECUTIONS of the CHRISTIANS in Persia, under SAPORES; the PERSECUTIONS under the ARIAN Heretics; those under JULIAN the Apostate, the GOTHS, VANDALS, &c. and in various other parts of the WORLD.

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An Account of the Persecutions of the Christians in Persia.

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THE gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. Hence they thought it expedient to complain to the emperor, that the christians were enemies to the state, and held a treasonable correspondence with the Romans, the great enemies of Persia.

THE gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. Hence they thought it expedient to •omplain to the emperor, that the christians were enemies to the state, and held a treasonable correspondence with the Romans, the great enemies of Persia.

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THE emperor, being naturally averse to christianity, easily believed what was said against the christians, and gave orders to persecute them in all parts of his empire. On account of this mandate ma•y fell martyrs to the ignorance and ferocity of the Pagans, the sufferings of the most eminent of whom we shall enumerate.

THE emperor, being naturally averse to christianity, easily believed what was said against the christians, and gave orders to persecute them in all parts of his empire. On account of this mandate may fell martyrs to the ignorance and ferosity of the Pagans, the sufferings of the most eminent of whom we shall enumerate.

CHAP. III. Containing the PERSECUTIONS of the CHRISTIANS in Persia, under SAPORES; the PERSECUTIONS under the ARIAN Heretics; those under JULIAN the Apostate, the GOTHS, VANDALS, &c. and in various other parts of the WORLD.

An Account of the Persecutions of the Christians in Persia.

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CHAP. III. Containing the PERSECUTIONS of the CHRISTIANS in Persia, under SAPORES; the PERSECUTIONS under the ARIAN Heretics; those under JULIAN the Apostate, the GOTHS, VANDALS, &c. and in various other parts of the WORLD.

An Account of the Persecutions of the Christians in Persia.

An Account of the Persecutions under the Arian Heretics.