Sermons Practical and Occasional Dissertations, Translations, Including New Versions of Virgil's Bucolica, and of Milton's Defensio Secunda, Seaton Poems, &c. &c. By the Rev. Francis Wrangham ... In Three Volumes |
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Introduction. Stephen; and his Jewish Persecutors. Nero burns Rome; and charges the crime upon the Christians. First Persecution: Peter and Paul suffer; the former crucified with his head downward. Domitian causes Clemens, his collegue in the Consulship, to be martyred, and banishes his widow Domitilla to Pandataria. St. John exiled to Patmos, where he writes the Apocalypse. Ignatius thrown to wild beasts. Polycarp burnt. Pliny, Proconsul of Bithynia.—The English Martyrs; Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, &c. Apostrophe to Faith. Affliction no test of demerit. Other species of Martyrdom: Missionaries; the Macleods, &c. Conclusion.
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