Book Title: England's bloody tribunal: : or, An antidote against popery. Containing a complete account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs ... Exhibiting a / By the Reverend Matthew Taylor ...

Author: Taylor, Matthew, active 18th century

Image Title: The Reformation Candle Cannot be Extinguished

Description: This frontispiece depicts 23 Protestant reformers seated around a table. Martin Luther (#18) (1486-1546) is at the center. The other reformers are Willliam Perkins (1558-1602), Jerome of Prague (1379-1416), Martin Bucer (1491-1551), Peter Martyr (1499-1562), Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), John Knox (c. 1514-1572), Jerome Zanchi (1516-1590), Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), Johannes Oeclampadius (1482-1531), Johann Buxtorf (1564-1629), Samuel Bolton (1606-1654), Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609), John Wycliff (c. 1320-1384), Theodore Beza (1519-1605), John Calvin (1509-1564), Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500-1555), Hugh Latimer (c. 1487-1555),Philip Melancthon (1497-1560), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Joachim Morlin (1514-1571), Hugo Grotius(1583-1645) , and Jan Hus (c. 1369-1415. The image includes the phrase “The candle is lighted; we cannot blow it out.” Below the candle are the pope, a monk, a Jesuit priest, and Satan who attempt to blow out the candle.

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