On Martyrdom & Martyrs

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Order of Contents

Book  1
Latin & French  2

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Fox, John –

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Latin Articles

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – Ecclesiastical Politics  (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663), vol. 3, pt. 2, bk. 1, Of the People of the Church, Tract 3

3. Of Persecution & Persecutors  112

4. Of Martyrdom & Martyrs in General  121

5. Of Various Distinctions & Divisions About Martyrs  126
.         A Short Appendix on the History of Martyrs  137

6. Containing Various Thetical Questions about Martydom  139

7. Containing Some Hypothetical Questions about Martyrs  158

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French

Book

1600’s

Heidegger, Johann H. – A Tract on Martyrdom, & of the Consolation of Martyrs & of the Fall of Saints  (Geneva: Tournes, 1686)  403 pp.  ToC

This was written just after the revocation of the peace treaty of the Edict of Nantes (1685), when the French Reformed Church was nearly wholly wiped out by French Romanist persecution.

Dedicatory Epistle
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Tract on Martydom

1. Of the Nature of Martyrdom  4
2. Of the Necessity of Martyrdom  11
3. Of the prudence of Martyrs to avoid dangers and of flight through persecution  22
4. Of the calling to martyrdom  29
5. That God is the author of martyrdom…  35
6. That the Devil and the wicked are also the cause of martyrdom  50
7. Of the reasons which oblige the wicked to make the martyrs perish  63
8. Of the diverse sorts of torments which persecutors have made the martyrs to suffer  71
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10. Of the virtues which are inseparable to martydom  98
11. Of the happiness of martyrs
12. Of the honor which we must render to martyrs  120
13. Of the penalties of the persecutors of the Church  127

17. Of martyrdom which is common to Christians  146

Tract on the Consolation of the Martyrs

1. Of the utility and of the nature of Christian consolation  151
2. Of the Author of the consolation of the martyrs  158
3. That the mercy of God is the…

5. Of the vanity of the consolations of philosophes  177

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Tract on the Fall of Saints

1. Of the diverse sorts of falls which can happen to Christians  357
2. Of the causes of the fall of saints  360

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Related Pages

Persecution

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Heaven

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Temptation