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A09486	Luthers fore-runners: or, A cloud of witnesses, deposing for the Protestant faith Gathered together in the historie of the Waldenses: who for diuers hundred yeares before Luther successiuely opposed popery, professed the truth of the Gospell, and sealed it with their bloud ... Diuided into three parts. The first concernes their originall beginning ... The second containes the historie of the Waldenses called Albingenses. The third concerneth the doctrine and discipline which hath bene common amongst them, and the confutation of the doctrine of their aduersaries. All which hath bene faithfully collected out of the authors named in the page following the preface, by I.P.P. L. Translated out of French by Samson Lennard.; Histoire des Vaudois. English	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1624 (1624)	STC 19769; ESTC S114487	267,031	522

neuer to beare Armes either against the Legat or the Church of Rome Here you see the last attempt which wee finde the Albingenses haue made and the last expedition of Pilgrims leuied against them All the pursuit against them afterward was made by the Monkes the Inquisitors who kindled their fires more than euer And so taking this poore people disarmed and singling them out by retaile it was impossible for them any longer to subsist And if at any time they hapned to set vpon the Inquisitors it was but to giue them a more sensible apprehension of their extreme violencies whereof we haue a notable example in the Chapter following CHAP. X. Many Monkes Inquisitors and Officers of the Inquisition slaine and for what cause Pope Innocent the fourth vseth the Earle Remond disgracefully The Earle Remond goes to Rome and why He takes his iourney to Rhodes dies at Milan 1243. IN the yeare one thousand two hundred fortie three the Earle Remond hauing satisfied his pecuniary penalties and being returned to his Subiects certaine of the Country complained of the vniust proceeding of the Monkes Inquisitors who without any difference intangled in such sort all sorts of people that there were not almost any that they condemned not either for Heretiques or Fauourers or Kinsfolke or allies of Heretiques not being content to proceede against those that made publike profession of the beleefe of the Albingenses in such sort that vnder the cloke of the Inquisition office they committed strange theeueries This accusation against the Inquisitors was before the Earle Remond in the presence of fiue Inquisitors and foure Officers of the Inquisition that is to say The History of Languedsc Chap. 4. fol. 40. before William Arnaldi Monke Inquisitor and two other Iacobin Monkes Also one Remond de l'Escriuain Archdeacon of the Church of Toulouze and the Prior of Auignonnet de Cluze and Peter Arnaldi Notarie of the Inquisition and three other of Auignonnet in the Diocesse of Toulouze The Monkes Inquisitors would reply and make some vse of that which had beene informed to frame their inditements against those that had thus accused them to the impeachment of their honour terrifying them with threats which made those that had thus moued their patience to enter into consideration with themselues that since they must fall into the snare of the said Inquisitors and so be vtterly vndone it was better for them to deliuer themselues this once and that they should teach others to carry themselues more aduisedly So growing still more eager and violent in their discourse they came to blowes But the Monkes Inquisitors and their Officers were ouermatched for there were slaine as the Historiographer of Languedoc reports nine that is to say The fiue Monks aboue specified and the foure Officers True it is that this Writer doth aggrauate the Fact and hee would haue men beleeue that it was a premeditated treason wherein he shewes himselfe to be partiall and passionate The Earle Remond did very well make it appeare that he was no way consenting to this riot for hee made an exact search and inquirie after the Authors of this sedition but yet doe what he could he could not free himselfe from suspition The same Historiographer saith that the atrocitie of the fact constrained the Authors to take Armes and to beginne againe a kinde of warre but there is not any Writer that makes mention thereof and therefore to be considered of before it be beleeued Pope Innocent the fourth came to Lion about that time He sends out his thunder-bolts against the murderers and hee looked not vpon the Earle Remond with a good countenance who was vnciuilly reiected in that request that he made vnto him touching a dispensation for the marriage of his Cousin Beatrix daughter of the Earle Berenger Earle of Prouence The same Historiographer saith that in the yeere 1247. the Earle Remond tooke his iourney to Rome 1247. The hist of Languedoc fol. 41. that he might bee permitted to burie the bones of his father in holy ground and that it was denied him because he died an excommunicate person 1249. He likewise saith that in the yeere one thousand two hundred fortie nine when the Earle Remond purposed to take his voyage to Rhodes hee died at Milan of a continuall feuer CHAP. XI Alphonsus brother to the king St. Lewis taketh possession of the goods of the last Earle Remond of Toulouze The persecution continueth against the Albingenses vnto the time that the Gospell was receiued in France and then the greatest part of those places where the Albingenses inhabited presently receiued the reformation THe change of their Lord altered the condition of the Albingenses for the Earle Remond being departed this life Alphonsus brother to the king St. Lewis tooke possession of all the lands goods and reuenues of the said Earle and consequently all the ill will that the Pope and other ecclesiasticall persons bare to the house of the Earle of Toulouze did cease And as touching the places which he was to yeeld vp contained in the treatie there needed no farther speech of that because Alphonsus being free from all suspition of falshood to the Pope or the Church he peaceably enioyed whatsoeuer belonged vnto him But one hand washeth another and therefore as by those warrs that the Church vndertooke against the Earle of Toulouze Alphonsus was become Master of the goods of the Earle Remond so was he bound to doe his best endeuours that the Pope might be honoured in his countries For this cause hee strengthned the Inquisition witnesse the Monke Rainerius who was Inquisitor in the yeare 1250. 1250. who hath left vs in writing the whole forme of their proceeding whereof we haue the transcript in the second booke of the history of the Waldenses In this hist of the Waldenses ch 2. lib. 2. Pope Alexander the fourth authorized the said Inquisition by letters which wee haue in our hands The continuance of this persecution by the said Inquisition is proued in the yeare 1264. 1264. by the constitutions of Pope Clement the fourth Also in the yeare 1276. 1276. vnder Iohn the two and twentieth they were persecuted with all manner of rigour witnesse the letters of the said Pope against them And by this record that followeth it appeareth that in the yeere 1281. 1281. vnder Martin the fourth there was a persecution moued in the quarters of Albi and that there were at that time a great number that made profession of the Religion of the Albingenses AN EXTRACT OF THE Priuiledges of the Citie of Realmont To the honour of God the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost creator of all things visible and inuisible and of the glorious mother of God who only hath destroied all heresies WEE William de Gourdon Captaine and President of Carcassonne and Beziers doe make knowne vnto all men that we command in the name of our most excellent Lord Philip by the grace of God

things that commonly follow the one the other heresie and sorcerie as it is verified in our times in those Cities and Prouinces which haue giuen entertainment vnto heresie CHAP. IIII. How the Waldenses are iustified and cleared from the calumnies contained in the former Chapter by those writings which they haue left THe Waldenses of Bohemia whether they were the remainder of that people that followed Valdo as some are of opinion that he ended his dayes in Bohemia after he had retired himselfe out of Germany and escaped the hands of the Bishops of Mayence and Strasburge or whether they were such persons as afterwards professed the same faith which the Waldenses did it is without all doubt that they were grieuously persecuted by king Ladislaus king of Hungary and Bohemia and we haue in our owne hands an Apologie of the said Waldenses which they sent vnto the king whom they called Lancelau to iustifie themselues against sundry complaints which were made against them by their aduersaries as also we haue a booke with this inscription Aiço es la causa del nostre despartiment de la Gleisa Romana That is to say Behold the cause of our separation from the Church of Rome And forasmuch as the answer to the first calumnie that is that they assembled themselues in darke corners where the candles being put out their aduersaries do affirme they committed villanons incests we haue copied out the answer of the said Apologie in their owne tearmes and language for the more certaintie and better edification This Apologie the author Iean Paul Perrin set downe in two columnes the one French the other in the language of the Waldenses which for breuity sake we set downe onely in English referring those vnto the French booke that desire to see the originall In the letter to king Ladislaus pa. 2. AMong other things say they they publish like angrie barking curres that it is a law and common amongst vs to say Yeeld thy selfe to whomsoeuer shal request thee and that we take our pleasures in darke caues and corners with whomsoeuer shall present themselues vnto vs whether they be our mothers or daughters or wiues or sisters How true this is it may appeare in that God hauing kept and preserued vs for aboue these forty yeares past it hath bene neuer knowne that there hath bene any whoredome amongst vs that hath escaped vnpunished or any such villanie committed In such sort that our liues and carriages condemne those that accuse vs. And for as much as the Waldenses speake this of themselues and to their owne praise and therefore this their iustification may seeme but weake looke a little into that which they haue written elsewhere against whordome which may suffice to shew that they were very far from this diabolicall affection to debase themselues by incests The sinne of luxury is very pleasing to the diuell Their booke of the remedie against the sinne of luxury Chap 21. displeasing vnto God and iniurious against our neighbours because therein a man obeyeth the basest part of his bodie rather then God who hath preserued it A foolish woman doth not onely take from a man his good but himselfe too He that is giuen to this vice keepes faith to no man and therefore Dauid caused his faithfull seruant to be slaine that he might enioy his wife Amon defiled his sister Tamar This vice cōsumes the heritage of many as it is said of the prodigall child that he wasted his goods liuing luxuriously Balaam made choise of this sinne to prouoke the children of Israel to sinne by occasion whereof there died twenty foure thousand persons This sinne was the cause of the blindnesse of Sampson it peruerted Salomon and many haue perished by the beautie of a woman Prayer and fasting and distance of place are the remedies against this sinne For a man may ouercome other vices by combating with them but in this a man is neuer victorious but by flying from it and not approching neare vnto it whereof we haue an example in Ioseph It is therefore our duties to pray daily to the Lord that he will keepe vs farre from the sinne of luxury and giue vs vnderstanding and chastitie See their book of Vertues in the Chapter of marriage Against the second imposture that they maintaine that a man may put away his wife when it pleaseth him they say that marriage is a knot that cannot be vntyed but by death except it be for fornication as our Sauiour Christ saith And Saint Paul 1. Corinth 7. saith That the wife is not to depart from her husband nor the husband from his wife See the booke of the Waldenses intituled of vertues in the Chapter of mariage To the third calumnie touching the communitie of goods and wiues they say concerning marriage that it was ordained by God long since in the terrestriall Paradise and that it is a good remedie against whoredome And that Saint Paul speaking thereof saith Let euery man haue his wife and euery woman her husband As also that the husband ought to loue his wife as Christ loued his Church and that the married couple ought to liue together in holinesse with their children bringing them vp in the feare of God As touching goods euery man hath possessed his owne proper substance at all times and in all places In Dauphiney It appeareth by the proces that we haue in our hands by which it appeares that Lewes the 12. of that name condemned the vsurpers of the goods of the Waldenses to a restitution It appeares by the treatises of Meneobe and other instances made by the Waldenses of Prouence when the Archbishops of Ambrun Iohn and Rostain had spoiled them of their goods when the Lord of Argentiere and Montainar and Arreas of Bonne had dispossessed the Waldenses that dwelt in the valley of Fraissimere and of Argentiere of their goods and possessions the restitution of euery mans inheritance was prosecuted by the particular persons from whom they had taken them The Waldenses of Prouence do demand at this present of the Pope the goods and lands which haue bene annexed to their demaine and taken from them by confiscation euery particular person making faith for euery part and parcell of goods and lands which had descended vpon them from their ancestors the Waldenses time out of mind they neuer hauing had any such communitie amongst them that might any way derogate from that lawfull proprietie which euery one had to his owne lands The fourth calumnie was touching Baptisme which In the booke of the Waldenses intituled the Spiritual Almanacke fol. 45. it is said they denied to little infants but from this imputation they quit themselues as followeth The time and place of those that are to be baptized is not ordained but the charitie and edification of the Church and congregation must serue for a rule therein c. And therefore they to whom the children were nearest allied brought their infants to be

it is that they haue found fault that the Magistrates should deliuer them to death without any other knowledge of the cause then the simple report of Priests and Monkes who were parties and iudges insomuch that hauing discouered the abuse which they brought into the Church they condemned them for heretickes and deliuered them to the secular power so they call their Magistrates Now this seemed vnto them a cruell simplicitie in the said Magistrates to giue faith to persons passionate and not indifferent such as the aforesaid Priests were and to put to death so many poore innocent people neuer hearing them or examining the cause The tenth calumnie was to make them odious to Kings and Princes that is to say that a lay man in the state of grace had greater authoritie then a Prince liuing in his sinnes Against this imposture they affirme In the booke of the causes of their separation frō the Church of Rome p. 41. that euery one must be subiect to those that are in authoritie obey them loue them be at peace with them honour them with double honour in subiection and obedience and readinesse paying vnto them that which is their due The eleuenth calumnie was grounded vpon that assertion of the Waldenses that the Pope had no authoritie ouer the Kings and Princes of the earth who depend immediatly vpon God alone For from thence they take occasion to call them Manichees as appointing two Princes Against this imputation they say In the booke of the treasure of faith art 2. We beleeue that the holy Trinitie hath created all things visible and inuisible and that he is Lord of things celestiall terrestiall and infernall as it is said in S. Iohn All things are made by him and without him nothing is made The beginning of this calumnie was taken out of the Extrauagantes of Pope Boniface 8. who subiecting the authoritie of Emperours vnto his saith of his owne Quicunque huic potestati resistit Dei ordinationi resistit nisi duo sicut Manichaeus fingat esse principia De Maiorit obedientia Can. Vnam sanctam l. 1. tom 8. The twelfth calumnie imports thus much that they held that whatsoeuer is done with a good intention is good and that euery one shall be saued in whatsoeuer is done with the said good intention To this imposture we need no other answer then that which the Monke Raynerius who was alwaies their back-friend saith elsewhere Rain lib. de forma haeretic art 38. that is that they maintaine that euery man is saued by his faith which he cals a Sect. It is very necessary that a lyer should haue a better memorie then to affirme things contradictorie And to shew that they made no profession of any such beleefe that may suffice that they haue said against Antichrist That he hath brought these errors into the Church vnder a colour of good intention and a shew of faith The thirteenth calumnie was that they maintaine that a man may kill or detaine from the Priests their tithes without scruple of conscience It is certaine that if the Waldenses had power to employ their tithes to some other vse then to the nourishment of those whom they find to be dumbe dogs drowsie watchmen It appeareth by the processe against the Waldenses of Dauphiné by Albert de Capitaneis other Monkes Inquisitors slow bellies seducing and being seduced they had done it but there was neuer any as yet that hath occasioned the least troubles that may be in that regard It well appeareth that in whatsoeuer depended on their owne wils they haue neuer offered more or lesse vnto those people taking no thought for their Masses and Trentals after their death the which the Priests complaine of and from thence take occasion to accuse them for heretickes And as touching reuenge heare what they say The Lord knowing that we shall be deliuered saith In the booke of the Waldenses intituled of Tribulations p. 274 Beware of men but he doth not teach or counsell any of his chosen to kill any but rather to loue their enemies When his disciples said vnto him in the ninth of S. Luke Wilt thou that we command that fire come downe from heauen and consume them Christ answered and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of Againe the Lord saith vnto Peter Put vp thy sword into thy sheath c. For temporall aduersities are to be contemned and patiently to be endured for there happeneth nothing therein that is new We are here the Lords floore to be beaten as the come when it is separated from the chaffe The last calumnie of the Waldenses which we haue gathered out of the writings of their aduersaries is that which Claud. Rubis layes vpon them as a foule aspersion Claud. Rubis in his historie of Lions p. 269. in his Historie of the Citie of Lions That being retired vnto the Alpes at their departure from Lions they became like the rest of the people of that countrey beesome riders And he is not content to tie himselfe to the Vaudois onely but he addeth These are things that ordinarily follow one another Heresie and Sorcerie as it is verified saith he in our times in those Cities and Prouinces that haue giuen entertainment vnto heresie We will first iustifie the Waldenses and then answer Rubis in the behalfe of those Cities and Prouinces which he hath inclosed within this calumnie All they offend against the first Commandemēt say the Vandois in the exposition of the first Commandemēt that beleeue that the Planets can enforce the will of man These kind of men as much as in them lies accompt the Planets as gods for they attribute vnto the creature that which belongs vnto the Creator Against which the Prophet Ieremie 10. speaketh Learne not the way of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signes of heauen for the heathen are dismayed at them And S. Paul in the fourth to the Galathians Ye obserue moneths and dayes and times and yeares but I am afraid of you lest I haue bestowed vpon you labour in vaine All they offend against this commandement that beleeue Sorcerers and Soothsayers for these men beleeue the diuels are gods The reason is because they aske of diuels that which God alone can giue that is to manifest things hidden and to foreshew the truth of things to come which is forbidden of God Leuit. 19.31 Regard not them that haue familiar spirits neither seeke after wizards to be defiled with them And in the 20.6 The soule that turneth after such as haue familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them I will set my face against that soule and will cut him off from amongst his people And in the last verse of that Chapter A man or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones their bloud shall be vpon them As touching the punishment of

and Princes stirred vp by the Pope but it is God saith he that hath hindred all their violent outrages Vesembecius in his Oration of the Waldenses Luther confessed that he hated the Waldenses as desperate men vntill he knew the pietie and truth of their beleefe by their owne confessions and writings whereby he perceiued that these good and honest men were much wronged and that the Pope had condemned them for heretikes being rather worthie of the praise that is due to Saints and Martyrs And that he had found in the said Waldenses one thing worthy admiration and to be obserued as a miracle neuer heard of in the Church of Rome namely that the said Waldenses hauing abandoned all humane learning gaue them selues wholly to the vtmost of their power to the meditation of the law of God day night and that they were very expert in the Scriptures and well exercised in them and that contrarily they whom we call our great Maisters in the Papacy made so light account of the Scriptures glorying neuerthelesse in the title thereof that there were some amongst them that had scarce seene the Bible Hauing also read the confession of the Waldenses he said that he did thanke God for that great light that it had pleased God to impart vnto them taking great comfort with them for that all occasion of suspition amongst them whereby one was suspected to the other of heresie was taken away and that they were knit so close together as that they were all sheepe of one fold vnder the onely Pastor and Bishop of our soules who is blessed for euer Occolampadius writ vnto the Waldenses of Prouence in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred and thirtie this letter following WE haue vnderstood with a great deale of contentment by your faithfull Pastor George Morel This letter is found in the book of George Morel pastor of the Waldenses touching the conference which he had with Oecolamp and Martin Bucer what your faith and religion is and with what termes you speake thereof We therefore yeeld humble and heartie thanks to our mercifull Father who hath called you to so great light in this age euen in the middest of those obscure darknesses which are spread throughout the whole world and the vnlimited power of Antichrist And therefore we acknowledge and confesse that Christ is in you for which we loue you as brethren And I would to God we had power and abilitie to make you feele that in effect which we shall be readie to do for you yea though it be in matters of greatest difficultie We would not that you should take that which we write to proceed out of any pride or attributing to our selues any superioritie but out of that brotherly loue and charitie we beare towards you The Father of our Lord Iesus Christ hath imparted vnto you an excellent knowledge of his truth more then to many other people and hath blessed you with a spirituall benediction So that if you persist in his grace he hath in store greater treasures for you which he will enrich you withall and make you perfect that you may grow to the full measure of the inheritance of Christ The subscription of the letter is Oecolampaedius wisheth the grace of God the Father by his Sonne Iesus Christ and his holy Spirit to his welbeloued brethren in Christ which they call Waldenses Martin Bucer writ vnto them at the same time this letter following BLessed be the Lord God and our louing Father who hath preserued you to this present time in so great knowledge of his truth and who hath now inspired you in the search thereof hauing made you capable and fit to do it Behold now what the nature of true faith is which is that so soone as it knowes in part any sparke of the diuine light it preserueth carefully the things that are giuen vnto it of God Saint Paul is an example vnto vs who in all his Epistles shewes the great care that he hath had to procure the glorie of God And doubtlesse if we pray with a good heart that the name of God be sanctified and his kingdome may come we shall prosecute nothing with such diligence as the establishment of the truth where it is not and the aduancement thereof where it is alreadie planted The rest of this letter is hereafter in the booke of the persecutions of the Waldenses Vigneaux in his Memorials of the Waldenses fol. 4. One onely thing doth especially grieue vs that our imployments at this time are such about other affaires that we haue no leisure to answer you at large as we desire c. Le Sieur de Vigneaux who was a Pastor of the Waldenses in the vallies of Piemont hath written a Treatise of their life manners and religion to whom he giues this testimonie that they were a people of a holy and godly life and conuersation well gouerned great enemies to vice but especially their Barbes for so they called their Pastors And speaking of those of his owne time he saith We liue in peace in these vallies of Piemont and in loue amitie one with another we haue commerce together neuer marrying our sonnes to the daughters of those of the Church of Rome or our daughters to their sonnes yea our manners and customes please them so well that such as are masters and call themselues Catholickes desire to chuse their men seruants and maid-seruants rather from amongst vs then themselues And they come also from farre to seeke nurses for their children amongst vs finding in ours more fidelitie then in their owne And as touching the doctrine for which the Waldenses haue bene persecuted It appeareth by the Historie of the Estate of the Church p. 337. they do affirme saith he that we are to beleeue the Scriptures onely in that which concerneth our saluation not any way depending vpon men That the Scriptures containe in them whatsoeuer is necessary to saluation and that we are not to beleeue any thing but what God hath commanded vs. That we haue one onely Mediatour and therefore we are not to inuocate Saints That there is no Purgatory but all such as are iustified by Christ go to eternall life They approue of two Sacraments Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. They affirme that all Masses are damnable especially those that are said for the dead and therefore are to be abolished That all humane traditions are to be reiected as not being necessary to saluation That singing and often rehearsall of diuine Seruice fasts tyed to certaine dayes superfluous feasts difference of meates so many degrees and orders of Friers Monks and Nuns so many benedictions and consecrations of creatures vowes pilgrimages and the whole confusion and great number of ceremonies heretofore inuented are to be abolished They deny the supremacie of the Pope and especially that power that he vsurpeth ouer ciuill gouernment and they admit of no other degrees then Bishops Priests and Deacons That the Sea