| About the book and the author |
| 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 -- Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII |
| Chapter XVI -- Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary |
| Chapter XVII -- The Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of 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 French Protestants in Southern France in 1814 and 1820 |
| Chapter XXII -- The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions |