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A54403	Matchlesse crueltie declared at large in the ensuing history of the Waldenses apparently manifesting unto the world the horrible persecutions which they have suffered by the papists, for the space of four hundred and fifty years : wherein is related their original and beginning, their piety and purity in religion, both for doctrine and discipline : likewise hereunto is added an exact narrative of the late bloody and barbarous massacres, murders and other unheard of cruelties committed on many thousands of the Protestants dwelling in the valleys of Piedmont, &c. by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned with the French army and several bloody Irish regiments / published by command of His Highness the Lord Protector.; Histoire des Vaudois. English. 1655	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Stoppa, Giovanni Battista. Collection or narative sent to His Highness the Lord Protector ... concerning the bloody and barbarous massacres and other cruelties.	1655 (1655)	Wing P1592; ESTC R40064	291,424	521

vpon these words They shall not inherite the kingdome of God writeth thus O my brethren let no man deceiue himselfe for there are onely two places and a third is not to be found For hee that deserueth not to reigne with Christ shall without all doubt perish with the deuill And to this purpose Saint Chrysostome writing vpon those words in the 12. by Saint Matthew The Kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man that is an housholder saith thus The man that is the father of the family is Christ vnto whom heauen and earth are as a house but his families are celestiall and terrestriall for whom he buildeth a house with three Chambers that is hell heauen and earth The Combatants are they that dwell vpon the earth the vanquished in hell and the Conquerours in heauen Let vs saith hee that are in the middle roome take heed wee descend not to those that are in hell but rather mount vpward to those that are in heauen By these authorities you may plainely see that there are onely two certaine places after the ascension of Christ into heauen into which the soules departed out of their bodies doe goe and that there is no third place neither can it be found in the Scriptures And therefore forasmuch as in the whole Law of God there is no expresse mention of any such place as Purgatory is and the Apostles haue giuen vs no instructions touching the same and the Primatiue Church gouerned by the Apostles according to the Gospell haue left vs no Ordinances or Commandements but that Pope Pelagius fiue hundred fiftie eight yeeres after Christ did ordayne as wee may reade that the dead should bee remembred in the Masse it followeth that since there is no expresse proofe thereof in the Law of God there is no necessity to beleeue the sayd Purgatory as an Article of our faith or that there is any such place after this life But heere is matter of doubt because men in these dayes are strangely affected to the helpe and ayde of the dead notwithstanding that in all the Scripture there be nothing expresly taught except in the Booke of Macchabees which is no part of the Old Testament nor Canonicall And that neither Christ nor the Prophets nor the Apostles nor the Saints neere their time haue euer taught to pray for the dead but haue rather carefully taught that the people that liue vnblameably shall bee Saints And therefore answering to the doubt aboue-mentioned wee say that the principall cause of this doting affection proceedeth from the deceit and trumperies and auarice of the Priests who haue not taught the people as the Prophets of Christ nor as his Apostles to liue well but to offer much and to place their hope of deliuerance and happinesse in Purgatory CHAP. III. Of the Inuocation of Saints WEe are now to speake of prayer vnto Saints which certaine great Masters with their followers preach vnto the people extolling and publishing it with great diligence as an Article of their Faith affirming that the Saints that are in their celestiall Countrey are to be prayed vnto by vs in the selfe same manner as the Priests were accustomed to doe and other of the people by their instruction enioyning them many other things as helpes to their Inuocation By which Inuocation authorization and magnification the people carnally erroneously beleeue it Imagining that as it is the manner and practice before earthly Kings when they are angry that such as are not in choller should intercede for them and pacifie their anger so the people thinke it is so with God that is that the Saints doe appease the wrath of God when he is angry with sinners But wee are not to beleeue any such thing for if it were so there could be no true conformity betweene the will of the Saints and the will of God for it should seeme that the Saints are not angry with those against whom God is moued to anger Secondly by this magnification and inuocation of Saints the people fall into Idolatry putting their trust more in Saints then in God and seruing them with greater affection then the onely God which they shew by the effects by the ornaments of their Altars which are most precious by their excellent Musicke the multiplication of their Tapers and by other solemnities By which meanes the simple people are induced to thinke that the Saints are more mercifull then God because they free him from damnation by those prayers they make vnto God whom God had condemned Beside this to maintaine these things the simple people are taught that the Saints desire that men should offer oblations vnto them and take pleasure in their praises and that they mediate principally for those that offer incense vnto them and other honours all which things wee are to abhorre and carefully to flie Of this Inuocation therefore we are now to speake and to make knowne what our opinion is touching this prayer vnto Saints And first let vs see what Inuocation is Inuocation is a desire of the whole vnderstanding and soule sent vnto God by the voyce and by prayer Secondly we know and beleeue that the man Christ Iesus is Mediator betweene God and man and Aduocate to God the Father who hath payed for our sinnes that come vnto God by him seeing hee euer liueth to make intercession for them Heb. 7.25 No man comes to the Father but by him And whatsoeuer yee shall aske in my name that will I doe saith he Iohn 14.13 Who giueth to all abundantly and reproacheth no man Iam. 1. He is our Aduocate to God the Father and hee forgiueth our sinnes He offereth himselfe vnto vs by all meanes before we offer our selues vnto him He is at the doore and he knockes that we may open vnto him he shutteth out all Idolatry being at the right hand of his Father in Heauen and his will is that all the faithful haue him in their mindes and looke onely vnto him for all the care of the faithfull must tend vnto Christ by thought and affection and must imitate him that is aboue According to that which is said If you be risen againe with Christ seeke the things that are aboue where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God He is the doore by which whosoeuer shall enter shall be saued No man commeth to the Father but by me saith he We beleeue in the third place that the Saints are not proposed vnto vs to worship but to imitate Saint Paul faith Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ Saint Peter would not suffer himselfe to be worshipped by Cornelius nor the Angell by Saint Iohn the Euangelist And therefore saith Saint Augustine in his Booke of true Religion O ye Religious saith he giue not your selues to the seruice of the dead for if they haue liued holily they are not such as seeke for honours or desire to be serued by vs but by him by whom they are illuminated they reioyce that we

renounce the deuill and all his pompe For dancing is the pompe of the deuill and hee that danceth maintaineth his pompe and singeth his Masse For the woman that singeth in the dance is the Prioresse of the deuill and those that answere are the Clerkes and the beholders are the Parishioners and the musicke are the Belles and the Fidlers the ministers of the Deuill For as when Hogges are strayed if the Hog-heard call one all assemble themselues together So the deuill causeth one woman to sing in the dance or to play on some Instrument and presently all the dancers gather together Againe in a dance a man breakes the ten Commandements of God As first Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me c. For in dancing a man serues that person whom hee most desires to serue and therefore saith Sant Ierom Euery mans God is that hee serues and loues best He sinnes against the second Commandement when hee makes an Idol of that hee loues Against the third in that oathes are frequent amongst dancers Against the fourth for by dancing the Sabboth day is profaned Against the fift for in the dance the parents are many times dishonoured when many bargaines are made without their counsell Against the sixt A man killes in dancing for euery one that standeth to please another he killes the soule as oft as hee perswadeth vnto lust Against the seuenth For the partie that danceth bee it male or female committeth adultery with the partie they lust after For hee that looketh on a woman and lusteth after her hath already committed adultery in his heart Against the eighth Commandement a man sinnes in dancing when hee withdraweth the heart of another from God Against the ninth when in dancing hee speakes falsely against the truth Against the tenth when women affect the ornaments of others and men couet the wiues daughters and seruants of their neighbours Againe a man may prooue how great an euill dancing is by the multitude of sinnes that accompany those that dance for they dance without measure or number And therefore saith Saint Augustine The miserable dancer knowes not that as many paces as he makes in dancing so many leapes hee makes to hell They sinne in their ornaments after a fiue-fold maner First by being proud thereof Secondly by inflaming the hearts of those that behold them Thirdly when they make those ashamed that haue not the like ornaments giuing them occasion to couet the like Fourthly by making women importunate in demanding the like ornaments of their husbands And fiftly when they cannot obtaine them of their husbands they seeke to get them elsewhere by sinne They sinne by singing and playing on Instruments for their songs bewitch the hearts of those that heare them with temporall delight forgetting God vttering nothing in their songs but lyes and vanities And the very motion of the body which is vsed in dancing giues testimony enough of euill Thus you see that dancing is the deuils procession and he that entreth into a dance enters into the deu●ls possession Of dancing the deuill is the guide the middle and the end and hee that entreth a good and a wise man into the dance commeth foorth a corrupt and a wicked man Sarah that holy woman was none of these CHAP. X. En qual modo lo poble se deo auer a aquilli que son defora Non amar lo mond After what manner a man must conuerse with those that are without NOt to loue the world To flye euill company If it bee possible to haue peace with all Not to contend in iudgement Not to reuenge To loue our enemies To be willing to suffer labours slanders threats contempts iniuries all manner of torments for the truth To possesse our weapons in peace Not to be coupled in one yoke with Infidels Not to communicate with the wicked in their euill wayes and especially with those that smell of Idolatry referring all seruice thereunto and so of other things Encar en qual maniera li fidel debian regir li lor corps Non seruir a li desirier mortal c. Againe in what manner the faithfull ought to rule their bodies NOt to serue the mortall desires of the flesh To keepe their members that they be not armes of iniquitie To rule their outward sences To subiect the body to the soule To mortifie their members To flye idlenesse To obserue a sobriety and measure in their eating and drinking in their words and the cares of this life To doe the workes of mercie To liue a morall life by faith To fight against the desires To mortifie the workes of the flesh To giue themselues in due times to the exercise of Religion To conferre together touching the will of God To examine diligently the conscience To purge and amend and pacifie the spirit FINIS THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE THIRD PART OF THE HISTORY of the Waldenses and Albingenses Contayning a refutation of sundry Doctrines of the Church of Rome This Booke of Antichrist is in an olde manuscript wherein there are many Sermons of the Pastors dated the yeer 1●20 and therefore written before Waldo and about the time of Peter Bruis who taught in Languedo● where hee was burnt at Saint Giles before Woldo departed from Lion And this Treatise was afterward preserued by the Waldenses of the Alpes from whom we had it with diuers others As the smoake goes before the fire the battell before the victory so the temptation of Antichrist before glory CHAPTER I. A Treatise of the Waldenses and Albingenses of Antichrist ANtichrist is the falshood or vntruth of eternall damnation couered with an outward appearance of the truth and the righteousnesse of Christ and his Spouse opposite to the way of truth righteousnesse faith hope and charity and to the morall life and ministeriall verity of the Church administred by false Apostles and obstinately defended by both powers Ecclesiasticall and secular Or Antichrist is a delusion which hides the truth of saluation from things substantiall or it is a fraudulent contradiction against Christ and his Spouse and euery faithfull member It is not any speciall person ordained in any degree or office or ministery but it is that falsehood it selfe which opposeth it selfe against the trueth which couereth and adorneth it selfe with beauty and pietie out of the Church of Christ as with names and offices and Scriptures and Sacraments and diuers other things That iniquity that is after this manner with all the Ministers thereof great and small with all those that follow them with a wicked heart and hood-winked eyes this congregation I say thus taken altogether is called Antichrist or Babylon or the fourth Beast or the Whore or the man of sinne or the sonne of perdition The Ministers are called false prophets lying teachers the Ministers of darkenesse the spirit of errour the Apocalipticall whore the mother of Fornication cloudes without water trees without leaues dead and twice rooted vp waues of a troublesome sea wandring starres Balaamites and