Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Rev. Rowland Taylor dragged out of Church. Page Inhuman execution of a Mother, two daughters, and an infant atGuernsey, in
Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Rev. Rowland Taylor dragged out of Church. Page Inhuman execution of a Mother, two daughters, and an infant atGuernsey, in 1556. Page 419. REV. JOHN ROGERS. 289 Martyrdom of the Rev. John Rogers. Mr. John Rogers, the aged minister of St. Sepulchres church,Snow Hill, London, was the proto-martyr; he was the first sacrifice,strictly speaking, offered up in this reign to popery, and led the wayfor those sufferers, whose blood has been the foundation, honour, andglory of the church of England. This Mr. Rogers had been some time chaplain to the English fac-tory at Antwerp. There he became acquainted with Mr. Tindal, andassisted him in his translation of the New Testament There wereseveral other worthy protestants there at that time, most of whom hadbeen driven out of England, on account of the persecutions for thesix articles in the latter end of the reign of Henry VIII. Mr. Rogers,knowing that marriage was lawful, and even enjoined in scripture,entered into that state with a virtuous woman, and soon after set outfor Saxony, in conseque
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