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A28933	The history of the Vaudois. Wherein is shewn their original; how God has preserved the Christian religion among them in its purity, from the time of the Apostles to our days; the wonders he has done for their preservation, with the signal and miraculous victories that they have gained over their enemies; how they were dispersed, and their churches ruined; and how at last they were re-established, beyond the expectation and hope of all the world. / By Peter Boyer ... ; and newly translated out of French by a person of quality.; Abrégé de l'histoire des Vaudois. English	Boyer, P. (Pierre), 1619-ca. 1700.; Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.; Person of quality.	1692 (1692)	Wing B3918A; ESTC R5697	97,378	276

them In another place we shall speak of these two Witnesses when we shall shew when it was that these poor people were driven out of their Country and when and how it was that they were re-established by the Duke of Savoy their Soveraign Prince The Vaudois in the second Article of their faith hold the Holy Scripture for their rule of faith and so do teach that nothing is to be believed as an Article of Faith that they do not prove by clear proofs of Scripture and so in the tenth and eleventh Articles they reject all humane traditions as abominations and they acknowledge only two Sacraments viz. Baptism and the Eucharist In the thirteenth Article they give us a scantling of their doctrine where they say thus The Sacraments according to St. Augustine in his City of God is an invisible grace represented by a visible thing and they say there is a●… great deal of difference between the sign and the thing signified The first Sacrament is called Baptism viz. a washing or sprinkling of Water which must be administred in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Behold here also that which is found in the Book of Antichrist relating to Baptism This Book was made in the year 1120 as we have said before Those things which are not necessary in the administration of Baptism are exorcisms insufflations the sign of the Cross upon the Head and Breast of the Infant Salt which is put in the Childs mouth Spittle into the Ears and Nose the Crysmatical unction upon the Head and all such like things consecrated by the Bishops They likewise say it's unnecessary to put a lighted Torch in the Childs hand and after Baptism to put on it a white garment or to bless the Water or to dip it thrice or to have Godfathers and Godmothers All these things done in the administration of the Sacraments they say are not of the substance of Baptism and by consequence unnecessary Behold likewise here what they say of the Supper of our Lord in the same Book of Antichrist as Baptism which is taken visibly and visibly administred is as it were an enrolling one in the company of the Faithful and obliges them to follow Jesus Christ and observe his Commandments and to live up to the rules of the Gospel so likewise the Holy Supper and the Holy Communion of our Saviour the breaking of Bread and the giving of thanks is a visible Communion performed by the members of Jesus Christ For those that take and break the same bread are one body and are members one of another planted in him to whom they protest and promise to persevere in his service even to the end without leaving the Faith of the Gospel or the Union that they have all promised to God through and by Jesus Christ. And in the same Book of Antichrist The eating of the Sacramental Bread is the eating of the Body of Christ in figure only as often as you shall do this do it in remembrance of me for if it were not a Spiritual Eating Christ would be obliged to be eaten continually and he in truth eats Christ who believes in him and Christ says That to eat him is to dwell in him From whence it follows that the Vaudois did not believe Transubstantiation nor the Oral and Corporal Eating of the Body of Christ but that the signs in the Supper of our Lord remained as they were before in substance before they were employed to this holy use and that as often as they received these visible signs by their mouth they received by faith the vertue and efficacy of the Body of Jesus Christ broke upon the Cross signified by the breaking of Bread and of his Blood that was spilt signified and represented by the pouring of the Wine into the Cup and that by this action they celebrated the memory of the death of Christ and obeyed his Commandment Do this in remembrance of me Words that St. Paul explains in this manner As often as you shall eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup you declare and commemorate the death of the Lord till he come If the Vaudois have conserved the purity of the Christian Religion from the time of the Apostles till the beginning of the Eleventh Age as we have shewn by their Confession of Faith which they made at the beginning of that Age they have not kept it less pure from that time till our days as we shall prove by another Confession of Faith which they made in the year 1655. After the Massacre which all Christendom has heard spoken of with horror and detestation and of which we shall speak hereafter A short Confession of the Faith of the Churches of Piemont published with their Manifesto after the dreadful Massacres of the Year 1655. ARTICLES We believe first That there is but one only God who is a Spiritual Essence Eternal Infinite all Mercy all Wisdom all Justice in a word every way perfect and that in this Infinite and Pure Essence there are three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost II. That this God has manifested himself to men by his glorious works as well by his Creation as his continual Providence and by his Word revealed at first by his Oracles in divers manners afterwards reduced by writing into Books which we call the Holy Scripture III. That these Holy Scriptures ought to be received as we receive them for Divine and Canonical viz. for the rule of our Faith and the direction of our Life as they are contained in the books of the old and new Testament and that in the old Testament there are only these books following to be received as of divine revelation and which God only approved of and consigned to the Church of the Jews viz. The five Books of Moses Joshua Judges Ruth the 1 and 2 of Samuel the 1 and 2 of Kings the 1 and 2 of Chronicles the 1 of Esdras Nehemiah Esther Job the Psalms the Proverbs of Solomon Ecclesiastes the Song of Songs the 4 greater Prophets and the 12 lesser The Books of the new Testament are The 4 Gospels the Acts of the Apostles the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans 2 Epistles to the Corinthians 1 to the Galatians 1 to the Ephesians 1 to the Philippians 1 to the Colossians 2 to the Thessalonians 2 to Timothy 1 to to Timothy 1 to Titus 1 to Philemon 1 to the Hebrews 1 of St. James 1 of St. Peter 3 of St. John 1 of St. Jude the Apocalypse or the Revelations of St. John IV. That we acknowledge the Divinity of these sacred books not only by the Testimony of the Church but principally by the eternal and indubitable truth of the Doctrine contained in them and for the excellent and divine Majesty of them and by the operation of the holy Ghost which makes us receive with Reverence the Testimony which the Church gives on them which opens our Eyes to discover

Pretorium which as every body knows was the Court of the Emperor and all other places of Rome This great Apostle having gained many Disciples in this famous City God made them instruments of planting the Christian Religion in Italy and in Piemont which is a part of Italy For the history of the Church tells us that those whom God had illuminated with his holy doctrine burnt with a desire of imparting the saving grace of which they did participate to others It it be true also that St. Paul performed his voyage into Spain as he designed Rom. 15. 24. he took Rome in his way it 's not to be doubted but that if he went by Land he passed through Piemont for it 's in the direct way from Rome to Spain And if he went by Sea it was not necessary that in going from Corinth to Spain he should pass by Italy but he was at Corinth when he writ he had a desire to go into Spain If he had passed through Piemont as in all appearance he did it 's certain he preached there for he preached every where where he came Since the Valleys of Piemont were enlightned with the bright Rays of the Gospel the Inhabitants of these Countries have conserved the purity of the Christian Religion without any mixture of humane traditions they never had any Images or Altars in their Churches they never invoked the Angels or Saints never believed in Purgatory they never acknowledged other mediator than Jesus Christ nor other merit than that of his Death One never heard them speak of the Mass of auricular Confession of Abstinence from certain sorts of meat of the Celibacy of Priests of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation they always held the H. Scriptures to be the perpetual rule of Faith and would never receive or believe any thing but what they taught and their Doctrine was always the same it is now This is proved clearly from the Acts that were preserved from the Flames that reduced their Churches and houses into Ashes among the which there is one writ in their vulgar tongue in the Year 1100. called the Lesson because it gives the rules of holy living and good works besides a Catechism of the same Year where in question and answer are taught the principal mysteries of the Christian Religion according to the word of God without any mixture of Traditions besides an explication of the Lords prayer in the Year 1120. and an explication of the Apostles Creed with several passages of the H. Scripture explaining ever article to which is joyned an explication of the ten Commandments in short a little book entituled A Treatise of Antichrist These three Acts were made in the Year 1120. the last of these Treatises shews that all those are Antichrists that teach Doctrines contrary to the word of God They confute the doctrine of Prayers for the dead Purgatory Auricular Confession Abstinence from Flesh and reject all traditions that are not in the word of God and are not conformable to it When these acts were made the Christian doctrine was not corrupted every where there were then many persons in France Germany and England who wrote against the errors which were by Rome and her Doctors introduced into the Church If the purity of the Christian Religion had not been conserved in tehse Valleys of Piemont from the time of the Apostles till the beginning of the Eleventh age in which these Acts were made how had it been possible for them to have made so many famous acts in which the purity of the Christian Religion is so clearly taught If they had before received the errors of Rome by whom and when were these errors purg'd out of the Churches of Piemont Who was the Reformer Where are the Acts that speak of this Reformation that they may be produced If there be none then there was never any reform and by a clear consequence the Christian Religion has remained from the time that the Vaudois received it such as is contained in those Acts till the time that these Acts were made In the ninth age about two hundred years before these acts were made lived Claudius of Turin Bishop of that City and the Valleys who writ sharply against the errors of the Church of Rome this Bishop condemned the Invocation of the Saints the worshipping of Images of Reliques and the Cross he maintained the doctrine of St. Augustine concerning grace and by consequence he rejected the merit of good works he taught that the Salvation of mankind doth wholly depend upon the merits and death of Christ he condemned likewise Pilgrimages made to Rome which the Monks brought into request His whole Diocess according to the writings of a learned man followed exactly his Doctrine the Sheep lovingly following the Shepherd The doctrine of Transubstantiation was not in his time received in France except in some few Bishopricks the greatest stream of writers did strongly oppose it they did receive the Communion under both kinds they did not adore the Sacrament they read the Holy Scriptures and taught it their children they made no direct Prayers to Saints as they have done since they attributed all to the grace and mercy of God The Christian Religion being pure in Piemont in the ninth age as it appears by the writings of Claudius of Turin there is no doubt to be made of its conserving it self so till the eleventh age in which those acts of which we have spoken were made So we cannot learn from any Historian that those Valleys were either before or after the time of this great Bishop reformed and we see clearly by indubitable acts that two hundred years after the same Religion was in those Valleys in its purity without the allay of humane Traditions and Ceremonies and the greatest enemies of the Vandois for all their boasting are not able to shew the contrary But above all the purity of their Religion appeared by that excellent profession of their Faith made in the year 1120 more than 50 years before Waldo of Lyons The Articles are as follow I. We believe and firmly hold all that is contained in the twelve Articles of the Symbol of the Apostles holding for Heresie all doctrine thut doth not agree with the foresaid Articles II. We believe in one God Father Son and Holy Ghost III. We hold for Holy and Canonical Scriptures the Books of the Holy Bible the five Books of Moses which are Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 of Kings 2 of Kings 1 of Cronicles 2 of Cronicles 1 Esdras Nehemiah Esther Job the Book of Psalms the Proverbs of Solomon Ecclesiastes the Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah the Lamentations of Jeremiah Ezechiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonas Micah Nahum Habbakkuk Sophoniah Hagge Zachariah Malachiah After follow the Apocryphal Books which are not received by the Jews but we read them as Jerome says in his Preface to the Proverbs for the instruction of the people but not to