Martin Luther

Luther before the Diet of Worms

Martin Luther, a monk, came to realize that salvation was through grace alone by faith alone, and not by works. He posted his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Door and was tried as a heretic at the Diet of Worms, where he refused to recant his writings. It was there he said those famous words, “I cannot–I WILL NOT recant….Here I stand: I can do no other.”

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Before the Diet of Worms by Martin Luther

An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther, excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (chapter 9)

Luther posting his 95 theses in 1517

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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Volume 1: A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

Foxe's The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Gerome

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Introduction

Chapter 1, History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions under Nero

Chapter 2, part 1, The Ten Primitive Persecutions

Chapter 2, part 2

Chapter 2, part 3

Chapter 2, part 4

Chapter 3, part 1, Persecutions of the Christians in Persia

Chapter 3, part 2

Foxe's Book of Martyrs Latimer & Ridley

Chapter 4, part 1, Papal Persecutions

Chapter 4, part 2

Chapter 4, part 3

Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti

Chapter 5, part 1, An Account of the Inquisition

Chapter 5, part 2

Chapter 5, part 3

Chapter 5, part 4

Chapter 6, part 1, An Account of the Persecutions in Italy under the Papacy

Chapter 6, part 2

Chapter 6, part 3

Chapter 6, part 4

Chapter 6, part 5

Chapter 6, part 6

Chapter 6, part 7

Foxe, John Wycliffe's bones being burnt

Chapter 7, An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wycliffe

Chapter 8, part 1, An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia under the Papacy

Chapter 8, part 2

Chapter 8, part 3

Foxe's Burning of Jan Hus at the stake at Council of Constan

Chapter 9, An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther

Chapter 10, General Persecutions in Germany

Chapter 11, An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands

Foxe's Book of Martyrs, roped peasants

Chapter 12, part 1, The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale

Chapter 12, part 2, William Tyndale, continued

Foxe Cranmer's Execution

Chapter 13, An Account of the Life of John Calvin

Chapter 14,  Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I