The Bloody Theater

Martyrs Mirror in Modern English

Preface to Second Part

The Bloody Theater

THE BLOODY THEATER

OR

MARTYRS MIRROR OF THE ANABAPTISTS OR DEFENSELESS CHRISTIANS

who baptized only upon Confession of Faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their Savior, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that is, from

the Year 1500 to the Year 1660. Being an Enlargement of the preceding Martyrs

Mirror, augmented from many authentic Chronicles, Memoirs and Testimonies;

together with an Account of the Holy Baptism, and other