Maybe if you read FOXES BOOK OF MARTYRS...a Protestant classic, by the way....
.you might understand that statement. But....I doubt it.
I doubt it also. Since it’s not the martyrs who paid the price for our salvation. If they were truly following Christ they will have their reward. We might appreciate the fact that they lived their faith and died for it’s but with Christ’s blood we are saved and not the blood of martyrs. We are not the followers of men but followers of Christ.
Have YOU read Foxe's Book of Martyrs? You call it a "Protestant classic", but do you realize many of the Roman Catholics on this forum have discredited that book because it also tells of those believers made martyrs BY Roman Catholics? Maybe it would be beneficial for you to read it, in fact, it is online. You can read it from the link http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/:
John Fox's famous book detailing the lives, sufferings and triumphant deaths of the early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs.
Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die -- one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid," "climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain." "After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification."
Fox's Book of Martyrs is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed.