"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced
early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our
time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of
persecution.
It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well
as a source of edification."
| Chapter I | History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero |
| Chapter II | The Ten Primitive Persecutions |
| Chapter III | Persecutions of the Christians in Persia |
| Chapter IV | Papal Persecutions |
| Chapter V | An Account of the Inquisition |
| Chapter VI | An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy |
| Chapter VII | An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe |
| Chapter VIII | An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy |
| Chapter IX | An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther |
| Chapter X | General Persecutions in Germany |
| Chapter XI | An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands |
| Chapter XII | The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale |
| Chapter XIII | An Account of the Life of John Calvin |
| Chapter XIV | Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I |
| Chapter XV | An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII |
| Chapter XVI | Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary |
| Chapter XVII | Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641 |
| Chapter XVIII | The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers |
| Chapter XIX | An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan |
| Chapter XX | An Account of the Life of John Wesley |
| Chapter XXI | Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820 |
| Chapter XXII | The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions |
