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Summary: Anti-Catholic Propoganda of the Elizabethan Era
Review: Were it not for the fact that this book is so highly regarded among Protestants, it would be laughable. A good example of this is his estimation of the Albigenses, whom he refers to as "people of the Reformed Religion". The Albigenses were a neo-Manichean heretical movement. Their faith was Gnosticism dressed up with Christian words, akin to much New Age thought today. Yet Foxe, in his ignorance, identifies with them.Just another example of the tradition among Protestants (especially early reformers and present-day fundamentalists) that the facts don't matter, just attack Rome. This book would be best read by those who let their visceral hatred of the Catholic Church over-rule their ability to think rationally.
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Summary: We can learn much from history's skeletons
Review: Whenever someone opens this book, they are grabbing a shovel, and with each passing chapter exhuming a new skeleton. The Church of Rome would be very pleased if these bones would remain peacefully buried in their churchyard caskets, but alas, what was done in the darkness is now revealed in the light.
No true Christian can fully ignore the brutality, the racks, the searing fires, the strangulations, thumbscrews, beheadings, spearings, and crucifixions that the early Christian martyrs endured for the sake of spreading the Gospel seed.
Every Christian should read the gruesome stories beginning with stoning of Steven (the first martyr) and continuing on into the ages of the Protestant reformation and hideous inquisitions devised by Satan to "purge" the fruit of Jesus Christ from this world.
Every born-again believer in Christ should know the story of William Tyndale, and the price he paid so the world could have an English New Testament.
Recently, I was surfing the online Catholic encyclopedia and did a search on Tyndale and Wycliffe. What I found disturbed me. The Church of Rome evidently still deems these men heretics. No apologies, no repentence for burning Tyndale at the stake, and I believe that if she could, she'd burn him and every Protestant pastor and evangelist she'd get her hands on all over again. According to the search I made, John Foxe was a liar, a deceiver and a criminal.
It is truly disturbing that the Roman Church is still so successful in disguising her true identity, even despite the wealth of historical evil hanging on her clothsline.
Please, if you are a born-again, bloodwashed believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (a Christian), and if Jesus lives inside your heart and has opened the knowledge of God to you, through the Holy Spirit, and if you read the scriptures and have a personal relationship with Christ, then please, please, please read this book and be humbled by the true pioneers of early Christianity.
Don't get mad and attempt to justify (or even deny, as some have tried) the motives of the Church of Rome, because Satan is a liar. Remember, Satan always provides an imitation for the real things of God. If God has founded a Church, Satan will provide a cheap imitation. If God sent His Christ, Satan will send his antichrist.
Can we learn much from history? Do dead men really tell no tales?
Ask the skeletons buried in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (and then confirm the historical data through a Webster's encyclopedia or any other reputable, secular source) and come up with your own conclusion. And remember this: the Church of Rome herself WILL NOT DENY nor APOLOGIZE for burning and torturing these Christian men; after all, it was done for the glory of her god.
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