Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... her members. Truly, God has caused the wrath of man to praise him. Even old Rome herself has been constrained to bear, through her executioners, grim and bloody testimony to the truth of the claims of the suffering saints who died as members of the true kingdom of God. Section II.--The Peculiarities Applied To The WALDENSES. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they DEGREES should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days." Before we proceed to apply the Baptist peculiarities to the Waldenses, it may not be amiss to state again that the same class of people who were called Waldenses in the valleys of the Alps, were called by other names in other countries. But, says Mr. Jones: "All these branches, however, sprang from one common stock, and were animated by the same religious and moral principles." We have not space in the present work to vindicate every branch of the Waldensean family from the slanderous charges which their enemies have preferred against them; but we desire to apply the Bible peculiarities to the main body of the Waldenses who inhabited the valleys of the Alps, or were in fellowship with them. But before wo proceed to this, it may be interesting to furnish the reader with a description of the valleys of Piedmont. Mr. Jones gives the following description: "The principality of Piedmont derives its name P,, ., i . Jones, Ch. His.. from the circumstance ot its being situ- lgg' atcd at the foot of the Alps, a prodigious range of mountains, the highest indeed in Europe, and which divide Italy from France, Switzerland, and Germany. It is bounded on the east by the duchies of Milan and Montferrat; on the south by the county of Nice and the territory of Genoa; on the...
