The Works of John Knox - 2 Author:John Knox Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: J. Thin Subjects: Theology Reformation Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / Gene... more »ral Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A BRIEF EXHORTATION TO ENGLAND, FOR THE SPEEDY EMBRACING Ol' THE GOSPEL. M. D. LVIIL In June 1558, or within little more than eight months after the atrocious persecution which called forth " The Apology of the Christians at Paris," contaiued in the previous volume of Knox's works, a similar tragedy, although accompanied with less external violence, and on a more limited scale as to numbers, was enacted at Islington, in the neighbourhood of London. Along with the following " Brief Exhortation," Knox subjoins a list of the Names of the English Martyrs during the reign of Queen Mary. As some of these names appear to have been mistaken, the list has been compared with Foxe, and the variations added in the foot notes. It may seem superfluous to add, that full information, including the examinations and sufferings of the English Martyrs specified at the end of this Epistle, afterwards appeared in Foxe's great work, "The Actes and Monuments." The persons alluded to as having been apprehended at Islington, were nearly the last victims in this sad Catalogue, and a brief notice of their case may be given in this place. Foxe entitles his account, " The Order and Occasion of taking certaine godly Men and Women praying together in the elds about Islington."1 It appears that, in the morning of May-day 1558, there had assembl...« less