THE

BLOODY THEATER

OR

MARTYRS MIRROR

OF THE

DEFENSELESS CHRISTIANS

Who Baptized Only Upon Confession of Faith, and Who Suffered

and Died for the Testimony of Jesus, Their Saviour, From

the Time of Christ to the Year A. D. 1660

COMPILED FROM VARIOUS AUTHENTIC CHRONICLES, MEMORIALS, AND

TESTIMONIES, BY

THIELEMAN J. van BRAGHT

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DUTCH OR HOLLAND LANGUAGE FROM THE EDITION OF 1660

BY JOSEPH F. SOHM

ILLUSTRATED

HERALD PRESS

Scottdale, Pennsylvania

Waterloo, Ontario