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The history of the Waldenses and Albigenses
The history of the Waldenses and Albigenses Author:Thomas Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Finding therefore in the courfe of reading, very honourable mention made of the Waldenfes and Albl- genfes, by very rtfpeSaUe Authors: I was thereby induced to m... more »ake a more minute inquiry Into therr hiftory, their rife and progrefs, their lives and doBrlnes, and the treatment which they met with in the world, and for what caufe they endured all kinds of perfecu- tion, and againft whom the princes of this world bent all their forces, to exterminate from the face of the earth, as the "aery pejls of mankind, and fuch at were not jit to live. The more I read, the more I admired their. doSrlnet, fpirit, temper, conduit and behaviour ; and eqfily perceived they were the jimple followers of him whofe kingdom is not of this 'world, and of whom the laorld is not worthy ; I found them to be the excellent of the earth, fuch as followed the Lomb wherefoever he led them ; and bearing in their fuffering hodies the dying of the Lord jfefus, that the life of Chri/l 'was mani- fejled in them, and by their mortified lives and pure doclrlnes they tejlifed that the world and its deeds were evil, Thai many of thefe were poor is not. to It wondered t: for in them was literally fulfiled what is faid, that, " No man might buy or fell, fave he that had the mark, or the name of the bead, or the Dumber of chapter{Section 4his name, (a) which is very particularly npplied to them. So the canon of Latcran, under Pope Alexander the third, made again/I the Waldenfet and Albi- genfes enjoins, upon pain of anathema, that no man prefume to entertain or cherim them in his houfe or lend, or exercife traffic with them. The Svnod. of Tours, in France, under the fame Pope, " Orders under the like intermination, that no man fhould prefume to receive or affift them, no not fo much. as to hold communion with them i...« less