The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians — van Braght's 1660 collection of the stories, testimonies and letters of Christian martyrs of the first seventeen centuries, in the 1886 English translation, with Jan Luyken's engravings.
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Contents
Front Matter6 chaptersAuthor's Preface3 chaptersTo The Readers in General4 chaptersAuthor's Introduction9 chaptersOf the True Church of God, Its Origin, Progress, and Immovable Stability, Through All Times59 chaptersPoems in the Original Language5 chaptersFirst Century42 chaptersSecond Century37 chaptersThird Century63 chaptersFourth Century61 chaptersFifth Century15 chaptersSixth Century9 chaptersSeventh Century9 chaptersEigth Century15 chaptersNinth Century17 chaptersTenth Century13 chaptersEleventh Century9 chaptersTwelfth Century44 chaptersThirteenth Century37 chaptersFourteenth Century32 chaptersFifteenth Century30 chaptersTo My Beloved Frieds, etc.ReadPreface to Second Part2 chaptersAccount of Holy Baptism in the Sixteenth Century36 chaptersAccount of Those Who Suffered in the Sixteenth Century6 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1520s48 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1530s40 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1540s39 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1550s145 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1560s150 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1570s178 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1630s6 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1580s23 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1590s18 chaptersOld Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1510sReadAccount of Those Who Suffered in the Seventeenth Century71 chapters