Transcriber’s Notes.

The following corrections have been made in the text:

♦ – duplicated word removed ‘a’ (John was not “a reed shaken)

♦ – ‘martrydom’ replaced with ‘martyrdom’ (and won the crown of martyrdom.)

♦ – ‘Bythinia’ replaced with ‘Bithynia’ (the principal cities of Bithynia,)

♦ – Illustrated dropcap of the letter “J” retained. (JN reference to the death)

♦ – ‘Protestanism’ replaced with ‘Protestantism’ (the voice of Protestantism,)

♦ – ‘Wittenburg’ replaced with ‘Wittenberg’ (return to Wittenberg,)

♦ – ‘but’ replaced with ‘butt’ (and the butt of their muskets.)