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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 a Minister of the Gospel Dedicated to the King of England and newly translated out of French by a Person of Quality LONDON Printed for Edward Mory at the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Church-Yard M DC XCII TO THE KING OF Great BRITTAIN SIR THE wonders that God has done by Your Ministry in England and Ireland makes me hope that the History of the Vaudois will not be unacceptable and makes me take the liberty of presenting Your Majesty with it You will in it as in a fine mirror clearly see the wonders God has done for the preservation the of Churches of Piemont and the calm they enjoyed from the time of the Apostles when they received the doctrine of the Gospel till the year 1488 that Pope Innocent the VIII caused the Croisade to be published against them The number of those that took upon them the Badge of the Cross were 18000 men of regular Troops and 8000 Voluntiers of Piemont which were all intirely defeated by a handful of Vaudois Ever since that time they have been continually persecuted and disturbed with cruel wars But as they fought the battel of God in defending his truth so it visibly appeared that the God of battel was with them and fought for them without whose aid it had been impossible for them to have performed such extraordinary exploits and gained so many victories over their Enemies who were often times twenty or thirty sometimes a hundred against one Your Majesty shall see the cruel persecutions that the Enemies of the Gospel have made them to undergo and the constancy with which the Martyrs have sealed this Celestial Verity with their Blood If the Enemies had any advantage over them it was only then in violating the Publick Faith which should be inviolably sacred among men In conclusion Your Majesty will be astonished how so few have been able to subsist in the Valleys of Piemont till the year 1686 being surrounded with such puissant Enemies cruel full of diabolical artifices without Faith without Law but if their subsisting be miraculous their return and re-establishment is no less One may see every where that it 's the work of God and not of men I could not Sir address this my Little Work better to any than to Your Majesty who has seen the God of Armies march before you as anciently he marched before the Camp of Israel and as he marched and yet marches before them who are the subject of this History You maintain as they Sir the Cause of God and you fight for his Truth and there is no doubt but that he is with you and fights for you and with you the happy success of Your Enterprizes puts it beyond all doubt I pray God with all my heart that he may preserve Your Majestys Sacred Person that he may give you a flourishing and happy Kingdom and bless all Your Just Designs to his Honour and Glory this is the Ardent Prayer of him who with the most profound respect is SIR Your Majesties Most Humble Most Faithful and Most Obedient Servant P. Boyer ADVERTISEMENT OF all the people that ever have been from the Creation of the world till our times there is none except the ancient people of the Jews whose History contains so many wonders as this of the Vaudois of Piemont for whether one consider their Perseverance in the profession of the holy doctrine of the Apostles or one reflects upon the wars they have maintained these 200 years to preserve among them the Purity of the Christian Religion one sees so many miracles of Wisdom Goodness and Power of God that it 's impossible not to confess that God has declared himself plainly to be the God of this people and that he is the Protector and Defender of their Persons as well as Religion We learn from the Holy Scripture that the people of the Jews whom God had chosen above all the people of the Earth to be his people and in favour of whom he had done so many miracles in Aegypt in the Red Sea and the Wilderness often fell into Idolatry and polluted thimselves with the abominations of the Heathens that dwelt round about them but we do not find that the Vaudois did ever fall into Idolatry after they were once planted in the field of the Church we likewise see that many Heresies were introduced into the Primitive Church by the craft of Satan as those of the Eutichians Nestorians and above all that of the Arians but we can never discover that any of these Heresies took footing in the Valleys of Piemont and when all the world ran after the Beast of the Apocalypse after the great Harlot with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Whoredom and who with her wine made all the Inhabitants of the Earth drunk the Churches of Piemont only followed Iesus Christ and inviolably adhered to his Doctrine So the Valleys had antiently for their arms a Torch environed with thick Darkness with this Motto Lux lucet in tenebris Light shines in darkness and as all Aegypt was covered over with palpable Darkness only in the Land of Goshen shined a clear bright Light even so as long as the Christian world was covered over with the Darkness of Idolatry and Errors there were only the Churches of Piemont that were illuminated with the clear light of the Gospel Now how was it possible that this celestial verity should be preserved pure in these Valleys even to our times if God by his infinite power and adorable wisdom had not hindred Satan from sowing his Cockle in the mystical Field of his Church to corrupt as he had done in other places the good seed of his word by the mixture of humane Traditions and Pagan Ceremonies which have corrupted sound Doctrine and that which is the greatest cause of admiration is that these Valleys are scituated in Italy where the great Whore has her Seat and the Princes of Piemont are subject to her Empire As to the wars that the Vaudois have maintained against their Enemies who rose against them to destroy them and to extinguish the bright Lamp of the Gospel they are all full of Miracles where one may see a handful of men conducted by Chieftains of no military experience put to flight great Armies commanded by the most valiant and most experienced Captains of the Age their Enemies were 20 and 30 and sometimes 100 against one Now how was it possible they should have got so many signal victories if the God of Battle had not fought for them and