John Foxe sought to document the story of the church from a Protestant and biblical perspective with solid scholarship. If that book could provide the justification for a Protestant England and help inspire gospel Christians in England, and if it could expose the tyranny of Romanism and show the people the path to spiritual light and liberty, it would be a valuable weapon in the cause of the Reformation.
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