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As Hase remarks: “The Waldensians. … were connected with the Hussites by
fraternal ties.” f344 The views of Wickliffe, who was in principle, at least, a
Baptist, must have had a great influence, too, over the erroneous Waldensians.
Dorner says that in the Waldenses: “the Christian ground ideas” were “long
propagated incorrupt.” f345
A Dominican, named Rainer Sachet, of the Waldenses, acknowledged:
“While other sects were profane and blasphemous, this retains the utmost
show of piety; they live justly before men, and believe nothing respecting
God which is not good; only they blaspheme against the Romish church and
the clergy, and thus gain many followers.” f346
To multiply like testimonies to the godly character and the right views of the
Waldenses, to the weariness of my readers, is an easy thing. Hence, several
Protestant bodies have tried to make out ecclesiastical kinship to the
Waldenses; not by way of proving Succession from them, but identity of faith.
Whether or not we recognize Mosheim’s Italian and French distinction
between the different Waldenses, there is so much evidence that, in this period,
there were parties of different characters, known as Waldenses, that we must
recognize different beliefs and practices among them. This will readily
harmonize the different documents, showing some Waldenses of this period
remained in the church of Rome; some separated from it; some were never in
it; some may have had infant baptism and other Romish trumpery, while most
of them were Baptistic.
I now invite the reader to the proof that part of the Waldenses were Baptists.
(1.) They were Baptists in that they believed only in a professedly regenerate
church membership. In article 12 of the Waldensian Confession, dated by Sir
Samuel Morland, A.D. 1120 — an eminent authority on Waldensian history —
we read, of the ordinances:
“We regard it as proper and even necessary that believers use these symbols as
visible forms when it can be done.” f347
In their Confession of 1144 they thus reiterate this confession:
“We believe there is one holy church, comprising the whole assembly of the
elect and faithful. … In the church it behooves all Christians to have
fellowship.”
Using the symbols for only believers, and stating the church is a: “holy”
church, “comprising the elect and faithful” — comprising “Christians” —
clearly and inevitably imply the Waldenses were Baptists. f348 That the
Waldenses believed in a professedly regenerate membership is also certain