Excerpt from History of the Ancient Christians Inhabiting the Valleys of the Alps: I. The Waldenses; II. The Albigenses; III. The Vaudois; With an Essay on Their Present Condition
This celebrated history by Jean Paul Perrin, of Lyons, was written in French, and soon after was translated into our language; but on account of the obsolete improprieties of the phrases, is here rendered anew. Before I resolved upon publishing it, I consulted Dr. Allix, both because he was the best judge, and because in his own volume he had frequently quoted it as an excellent narrative of undoubted authority. Indeed I find it very often cited by the learned men who discuss the subject of those primitive Christians, with great attestations to its worth, as giving a complete account of the hor rible devastations and wars which were raised and carried on by the Popes, under the solemnity of Croisades, besides the more private ways of murder ing by the merciless Inquisitors, against those preservers of the primitive Christianity, and forerunners of the blessed Reformation, the old Waldenses and Albigenses, to the extermination, as far as divine Providence would per mit, both of the princes and people, who then were the only maintainers of the true religion.
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