L'Histoire Des Vaudois. J. Bresse
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J. Bresse
L'Histoire Des Vaudois
From Authentic Details of the Valdenses
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066157937
Table of Contents
ABRIDGED TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE VAUDOIS
CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE VAUDOIS VALLEYS
CHAPTER II. NAME OF THE VAUDOIS
CHAPTER III. ANTIQUITY OF THE VAUDOIS FAITH
CHAPTER IV. ANTIQUITY AND PURITY OF THE VAUDOIS DOCTRINE, PROVED BY
Section II. Evidence of Protestant Writers
Section III. Testimony of Roman Catholic Authors.
CHAPTER V. MANNERS OF THE VAUDOIS
CHAPTER VI. ON THE DISCIPLINE OF THE VAUDOIS CHURCH.
CHAPTER VII. OF THE BARBES OR PASTORS
CHAPTER I. THE VAUDOIS QUIT THE VALLEYS IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH
HISTORICAL DETAILS OF THE PAST SUFFERINGS OF THE VALDENSES, AND OF THE STATE OF THESE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS IN PIEDMONT AND OTHER COUNTRIES
After the late interesting publications of Allix, Jones, Gilly, Acland, and other writers, it may appear at the present time somewhat presumptuous, as well as unnecessary, to lay before the public any further details connected with the history of these excellent and primitive Christians; but as some of the Vaudois manuscripts and works are very scarce, and but little known in England, more particularly those of Peyran, Henri Arnaud, and Bresse, it may be desirable (even under the certainty of many repetitions) to give some short extracts from these curious documents, if only with the view and under the hope of keeping alive in the breasts of the people of this favoured isle that charitable zeal, which has again manifested itself, and is of such vital importance to the political and religious welfare of our noble though impoverished protestant brethren.
As the Valdenses most evidently are a part of the dispersed flock of the original Church of Christ, it becomes a matter of the highest interest to trace out their history from the earliest periods, and to observe how sedulously under the severest persecutions they have not only upheld their faith in its own purity and truth, but how gloriously they have continued to resist the growing corruptions of the Romish faith.
Scattered over the face of the earth, we find almost every where these primitive Christians under the various denominations given to them-of Cathari, or "the Pure," Paulicians, Petrobusians, Puritans, Leonists, Lollards, Henricians, Josephists, Patarines, Fraticelli, Insabati, Piphles, Toulousians, Albigenses, Lombardists, Bulgarians, Bohemian brethren, Barbets, Walloons, &c.
We not only find many colonies of these people in the eastern and western parts of Europe, but even in Africa and America, whither they emigrated to escape