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The Saints are not to be worshipped. 
Eternal life is the gift of God to the faithful, being justified by the 
sacrifice of Christ. alone. 
There is no purgatory. 
There are but two. sacraments: baptism, and the supper of the Lord., 
There is xo scriptural ground for the mass, nor for the Romish tradi- 
tions, nor for the fasts, feasts, and hierarchy of the Church of Rome. 
These were formidable blows at the doctrinal system of Rome: but the 
Waldenses smote where their blows were still more felt and more formi- 
dable; they openly pronounced that the Church of Rome had utterly 
degenerated from the church of the apostolic age; they preached against 
the doctrine of Indulgences, one of the chief Roman sources of reve- 
rence, as an abomination before God and man; they denied the neces- 
sity and yalidity of auricular confession, the great source of Popish 
influence; and, by further denying that the soul was capable of being 
extricated from any sufferings of an intermediate state by human means, 
struck at the profits of the infinite number of masses, prayers, and cere- 
monies for the dead, which made the subsistence of multitudes of the 
priesthood. To put an end to all doubts of their complete separa- 
tion, they promulgated that the Church of Rome had apostatized from 
Christ; was deprived of the Holy Spirit; and was, in fact and doctrine, 
Paganism under another form—the Babylonian harlot ! whose power, 
guilt, and final ruin had been prophesied in the Apocalypse above .a 
thousand years before.* 
The converts to those opinions rapidly increased to multitudes, and in 
a few years they made a large part of the population of the south of 
France and the north of Italy. They bore various appellations, according 
to their provinces or teachers, or even to the peculiar contempt which it 
was the fashion of the Romish hierarchy to cast upon them. From their 
general paucity and abjuration of the pomps of the Romish Church, they 
were called “beggars,” Turlupins,” and ¢ paupers of Lyons” —from their 
principal teachers, ‘‘ Josephists,” ‘‘ Henricians,” and ,‘* Petrobrussians.” 
_ The names from their provinces were still more various; but the Piedmon- 
taise were chiefly; styled Waldenses, or Vaudois (from the local word 
vaux, vallies). The Italians were named “Lombards,” and the French,+ 
« Albigenses,” from, the city of Albi, the centre of their settlement, 
between the Garonne and the Rhone. 
Men who thus nobly and conscientiously resisted the authority of 
Rome (which was, then received. by Europe as the authority of God), 
must have, been looked on by the world as criminals of the blackest die. 
The general surprise at this defiance of a power which assumed _to be 
“God's vicar on earth!” soon shaped itself into distinct, charges, and 
the Waldenses. were aspersed as guilty. of impurity, conspiracy, and 
Manichzism. 
The Protestants of our day will feel with what dangerous facility 
the deepest charges might have been brought, and believed, against 
those illustrious assertors of the right of private judgment, and how 
false:they must have been against all those who received the Scriptures 
as they were given, in spirit and in truth. But there is no instance of a 
* Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., p. 127. 
_ + This name was not general, and confirmed, till the council of Albi, A.D, 1254, 
which condemned them. Ranken, vol. iii, p. 200. 
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