| Introduction | | About the book and the author
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| 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 | | An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII |
| Chapter XVI | | Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary |
| Chapter XVII | | Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous 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 the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820 |
| Chapter XXII | | The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions |