This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...testified9, that they lived justly before men, and believed all things well of God, and held all the articles contained in the Creed; only they blasphemed the Romish church, and hated it. Claudius de Seissell archbishop of Turin confesseth, as touching their life and manners they were sound and unreproveable, without ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...testified9, that they lived justly before men, and believed all things well of God, and held all the articles contained in the Creed; only they blasphemed the Romish church, and hated it. Claudius de Seissell archbishop of Turin confesseth, as touching their life and manners they were sound and unreproveable, without scandal amongst men, giving themselves (to their power) to the observation of the commandments of God. e So witnesseth Peter De Valle Sarnensi, being himself a monk, and lately printed (anno 1615) in Paris. See Rivet on Genesis, p. 138., - Cited by Fox in his Martyrol. p. 232. King Louis XII. of France, being thoroughly informed of the faith and life of the Waldenses in his time, bound it with an oath, that they were better men than he or his people. The same king having killed many of those poor people, and having called the place where they lived, Vallis meretricia, for their painted and dissembled piety, upon better instructions changed the name, calling it from himself, The Vale of Louis io. William de Belai, lieutenant of Piedmont, gave this commendation of the Merindelites (a sprig which some hundred years after sprouted from the Waldenses), that they were a laborious people, averse from suits, bountiful to the poor, duly paying their princes' tributes and lords' dues, serving God with daily prayers, and showing forth much innocency in manners." Thuanus, one that writeth truth with a steady hand, jogged neither by Romanists nor Huguenots, thus charactereth the Con-waldenses11, a stem of that stock we speak of: --They used raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes, the four feet whereof served instead of buttons; all equal in poverty, having no beggars amongst them; their diet on deer and milk; yet was there scarce any amongs...
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