Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs - 1824 Author:William Eusebius Andrews Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 0 Book CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL o Printed and Published by W. E. Andrews, 3, Chapter- r Oj Louse-court, St. Paul's Churchward, London. JTTlCe 3d. Expla... more »nation Of The Engraving.—The Raman Hack was a wooden horse: whence its name Equulus. The martyr being laid cm two beams joined, with his /ace turned upwards, and legs across, his arms and legs were bound with cords, called Fidi- culffi, which being drawn by pulleys and wheels, or windlasses, distorted and dislocated his body, bruised the feet, and often tore off the nails of the toes. His sides were torn with hooks and scorpions, and burnt with torchts. The niarti/rs often lay several hours in this mangled condition in exquisite torture. By the turning of the cords andvvliet/s, his body was let full under the same beams, which opened for that purpose,. And Khi/st 1. t "'. I. L. I . J - L. iL., ......J. tl iL 1 1.1 ... ;.. . i1 ; previous to his suffering the punishment of death, and father Robert Owen was racked to death upon it, for no other cause than being Catholic priests. THE THIRD PRIMITIVE PERSECUTION UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. Sucli is the head given by Fox to his account of the third persecution which the Christian church had to suffer. He says, " Between " the second and the third Roman persecution was but ONE YEAR, " Upon Nerva succeeding Domitian, he gave a respite to the Christians; " but reigning only thirteen months, his successor Trajan, in the tenth " year of his reign, and in A. D. 108, began the third persecution ' against them."—Before we proceed any further let us examine this short account here given.—The Christians we are told had only one year of peace; and theuit is directly stated that the persecution did not begin till the tenth year of Trajan, and that he might convey some air of ...« less