The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror, in plain modern English: edited chapter for chapter from the 1886 translation, with every scripture reference and abbreviation spelled out so it can be read aloud. The unaltered 1886 text is on the shelf as Martyrs Mirror.
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Contents
Twelfth Century
1Twelfth Century2An Account of the Holy Baptism in the Twelfth Century3Of the Conversion of Peter Waldo, and the Rise of the Waldenses, and So On4Of the Dispersion and the Various Names of the Waldenses5Of the Waldenses who in All Respects were of One Belief with the Baptists…6How the Waldenses were Called Anabaptist by the Romanists Themselves7Various Testimonies that the Waldenses Rejected Infant Baptism8The Belief of the Ancient Waldenses Respecting the Office of the Secular…9The Views of the Ancient Waldenses Against10The Views of the Ancient Waldenses Against the Swearing of Oaths11Of the Views of the Waldenses Against Nearly All Articles of the Roman Church12The Confessions of the Waldenses, or their Own Creeds13Confession of the Waldenses and Albigenses14Some Moral Precepts Left by the Waldenses to the Churches15Testimony of Ancient Writers, Regarding the Virtuous Life of the Waldenses16How the Waldenses were Unjustly Accused by their Inquisitors, and Accusers17Concerning the Time of the Waldenses18Twelfth Century19An Account of Those who Suffered in the Twelfth Century20Four Persons, who Had No Good Opinion of Infant Baptism and Transubstantiation, in the Year 110521Certain Persons, Called Berengarians, in the Year 110622Several Persons who Maintained the Doctrine of Berengarius, in the Year 113523Arnald, a Lector at Brescia, in the Year 114524Peter Abelard, on Account of the Abovementioned Belief, is Confined, in the Year 114525Peter Bruis, Burned at Saint Giles26Certain Peasants, Called Apostolics, in the Year 115527Gerard, with About Thirty Others, Men as Well as Women28Their Answers to the Questions Respecting their Faith29Summary of the Doctrine of which They were Accused30Their Conduct Toward the Fathers in the Council in Oxford31Joyful Going out of These People to Corporal Punishment32Further Observations Concerning the Origin and Faith of These Martyrs33Arnold, Marsilius, and Theodoric, in the Year 116334Ecbert's Account of the Views of These People35Trithemius' Account of their Examination, and Disputation with Ecbert36Of the Constancy of These Martyrs in the Fire37Many Pious Christians Throughout France and England, in the Year 118238Many God Fearing People Put to Death, in the Year 118239Many Christians Burned in Flanders, in the Year 118340Decree of Pope Lucius the Third Against the Waldenses, and So On41Bloody Decree of Ilphonsus, or Alphonsus, King of Aragon, in the Year 119442Origin of the Inquisition Against the Waldenses and Albigenses, in the Year 119843Five Men and Three Women Burnt at Troyes44The Expulsion of the Christians from Metz, and the Burning of their Books