ARGUMENT.
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.
