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Author: J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.
Title: Ecclesiastical history epitomized containing a faithful account of ye birth life & doctrine, crucifixion & ascension of ye holy Iesus : with the lives of ye apostles evangelists & primitive fathers & other famous men in ye Christian Church both antient & modern who have couragiously confessed & suffered glorious martyrdomes & persecutions under several tyrannical governours both heathenish and Romish : faithfully continued to ye reformation and since deduced to this present age / carefully collected by J.S. ... ; in two parts.
Print source: Ecclesiastical history epitomized containing a faithful account of ye birth life & doctrine, crucifixion & ascension of ye holy Iesus : with the lives of ye apostles evangelists & primitive fathers & other famous men in ye Christian Church both antient & modern who have couragiously confessed & suffered glorious martyrdomes & persecutions under several tyrannical governours both heathenish and Romish : faithfully continued to ye reformation and since deduced to this present age / carefully collected by J.S. ... ; in two parts.
J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702., J. S. fl. 1680-1702., J. S. fl. 1680-1702.
London: Printed for W. Thackery ..., T. Passinger ..., 1682.
Notes:
Each part has special t.p. and separate pagination, and is assigned a separate Wing number. Part I has title: Ecclesiastical history epitomiz'd. Part the first. London : Printed for W. Thackery ... T. Passinger, and Charles Passinger ..., 1682 (Wing S3504). Part II has title: An epitomy of ecclesiastical history. Part II. London : Printed for William Thackerey ... and Thomas Passinger ..., 1683 (Wing S3506).
Each part has engraved portrait frontispiece; collective t.p. also engraved.
Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
Subject terms:
Church history -- Early works to 1800.
Church history -- Biography.
Fathers of the church -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Church history.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60005.0001.001
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To the Christian READER.
THE INTRODUCTION, Or A Breif ACCOUNT Of the Life, Crucifixion, Glori∣ous Resurrection and Ascension of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. PETER the Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. PAUL the Apostle.
The Life of St. ANDREW the Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. JAMES the Great Apostle.
The Life of St. JOHN the Evangelist.
The Life of St. PHILIP the Blessed Martyr.
The Life of St. BARTHO∣LOMEW the Apostle and Martyr.
The Life of St. MATTHEW the Evangelist, together with his Martyrdom.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. THOMAS the Apostle.
The Life and Glorious Martyrdom of St. JAMES the Less, an Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of SIMON the Zelot, an Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. JUDE the Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. MATTHIAS the Apostle.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. MARK the Evangelist.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. LUKE the Evangelist.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. IGNATIUS.
The Life and Martyrdom of PO∣LYCARP, Bishop of Smyrna.
The Life and Martyrdom of Dio∣nysius Areopagita.
The Life and Martyrdom of Justin Martyr.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. IRENEUS.
The Life of Tertullian.
The Life of Origen.
The Life and Martyrdom of St. Cyprian.
The Life of Eusebius.
The Life of Lactantius.
The Life of Athanasius.
The Life of St. BASIL.
The Life of St. Ambrose.
The Life of St. Hierome.
The Life of St. CHRYSO∣STOM.
The Life of AUGUSTIN.
The LIFE of Venerable BEDE.
The Life of John Damascene.
The Life of Theophylact.
The Life of PROSPER.
The Life of Fulgentius.
The Life of BERNARD.
The Life of Peter Lumbard.
The Life of Bonaventure.
The Life of Aquinas.
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TO The Christian READER.
THE INTRODUCTION, TO THE LIVES OE THE DOCTORS, And other Godly MEN, that were CHIEF.
THE LIFE OF JOHN WICKLIF.
The Life of JOHN HUSS.
The Life of HIEROM of PRAGUE.
The Life of MARTIN LUTHER.
The Life of ZUINGLIUS.
The Life of Sr. JOHN OLD-CASTLE, commonly called the LORD COBHAM.
The Life of JOHN FRITH.
The Life of WILLIAM TINDAL.
The Life of PAUL FAGIUS.
The Life of MARTIN BUCER.
The Life of JOHN ROGERS.
The Life and Martyrdom of LAWRENCE SAUNDERS.
The Life of JOHN HOOPER.
The Life and Martyrdom of RO∣LAND TAYLOR.
The Life of JOHN BRAD∣FORD Martyr.
The Life of NICHOLAS RIDLEY Martyr.
The Life of HUGH LATIMER Martyr.
The Life of THOMAS CRAN∣MER, Arch-Bishop of Can∣terbury, and Martyr.
The Life of JOHN PHILPOT Martyr.
The Life of PHILIP ME∣LANCTHONE.
The Life of PETER MARTYR.
The Life of JOHN CALVIN.
The Life of JOHN JEWEL Bishop of Sarum.
The Life of HENRY BULLINGER.
The Life of JOHN FOX.
The Life of EDMUND GRIN∣DAL Arch-Bishop of Can∣terbury.
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, who were Instrumental in Carry∣ing on the great Work of Re∣formation, to this very Day, And (altho it may be some Digression) The Life and bloody Reign of Queen MARY.
And first to begin with HENRY the Eighth, who first Abolished the long Ʋsurped Supremacy of the See of Rome, Wounding the Head of the Beast, after whom all the World wondered.
The Life and Reign of EDWARD the Sixth, King of Eng∣land, &c.
The Life and Bloody Reign of Queen MARY.
The Life and Glorious Reign of Queen ELIZABETH.
The Life and happy Reign of JAMES King of great Brit∣tain, France, and Ireland.
The Life and Reign of CHARLES the First.
The Birth, Sufferings, and Mi∣raculous Deliverances, happy Restoration, and Prosperous Reign of our now Reigning Soveraign CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Brittain, France, and Ireland, King, &c.
Books Sold by Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge.
These Books following Printed for and Sold by William Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck-Lane.