 John Foxe is most well known as a church historian, and the writer of
the famous Foxe's Book of Martyrs. That work, however, is an abridgement
of the original work from which it was taken, Acts and Monuments of the
Christian Church, a work which, in reprint form in the 19th century,
took up 8 very large octavo volumes! The original work dealt at length
with atrocities committed against Christians by the Roman Catholic
church, and which material has been omitted from all modern editions.
John Foxe was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1516. His father died
when he was very young, and his mother remarried. He was sent to Oxford
when he was 16, and studied at Magdalen College and BrasenNose College.
At Magdalen College he became close friends with Hugh Latimer and
William Tyndale. Foxe suffered persecution as a protestant at the hands of
Catholic authorities in England, and was removed from his teaching
fellowship. He began writing of other persecutions of Huss and Wycliffe,
which was to be the seeds of The Acts and Monuments of the Christian
Church, which was first published in 1563.
George GillespieOne of the Westminster Assembly Divines
Thomas GoodwinOne of the Westminster Assembly Divines
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