WITH ABRIDGED TRANSLATIONS OF "L'HISTOIRE DES VAUDOIS"
Reading edition
By J. Bresse
Illustrated by Etchings
"Vous etes de nos peres que nous ne connaissons pas." Reply of a Vaudois peasant to an Englishman.
1827.
"The Waldenses are the middle link which connects the primitive Christians and fathers with the reformed, and by their means the proof is completely established; that salvation by the grace of Christ, felt in the heart and expressed in the life by the power of the Holy Ghost, has ever existed, from the time of the Apostles to this day, and that it is a doctrine marked by the cross, and distinct from all that religion of mere form or convenience, or of human invention, which calls itself Christian, but which wants the spirit of Christ."
CHARLES, LORD BISHOP OF LLANDAFF, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY PERMISSION, WITH AN EARNEST HOPE, THAT THE CAUSE OF PURE CHRISTIANITY, AND THE DISTRESS OF HER PROFESSORS IN A DISTANT COUNTRY, MAY OBTAIN SOME ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FROM ONE MORE HUMBLE EFFORT TOWARDS THEIR SUPPORT.
CONTENTS
HISTORICAL DETAILS OF THE PAST SUFFERINGS OF THE VALDENSES,
ABRIDGED TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE VAUDOIS BY J. BRESSE
PREFACE.
NOTES TO PREFACE.
HISTORY OF THE VAUDOIS.
PART THE FIRST.
CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE VAUDOIS VALLEYS
CHAPTER II. NAME OF THE VAUDOIS
CHAPTER III. ANTIQUITY OF THE VAUDOIS FAITH
CHAPTER IV. ANTIQUITY AND PURITY OF THE VAUDOIS DOCTRINE
CHAPTER V. MANNERS OF THE VAUDOIS
CHAPTER VI. ON THE DISCIPLINE OF THE VAUDOIS CHURCH.
CHAPTER VII. OF THE BARBES OR PASTORS
PART THE SECOND.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. THE VAUDOIS QUIT THE VALLEYS
CHAPTER II. THE REFORMATION.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
ETCHINGS