Excerpt from The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Vol. 1: With a Preliminary Dissertation
A Summary Collection Of the Errors, Heresies, and Absurdities contained in the Pope's Doctrine, and the First Institution Of the Church of Rome; and first, Of Faith and Justification.
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John Foxe was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in 1516, and died April 8, 1587. He is most famous for is publication of “Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church” more commonly known as “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”.
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