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As Baptists do now, taking the ordinances for mere signs of grace which is
already in the heart and for only believers or Christians, Armitage well says:
“They rejected the error of regeneration by baptism.” f354 Hence, in the
Waldensian tract, describing anti-Christ, they say:
“A third mark of anti-Christ consists in this, in that he attributes the
regeneration of the holy Spirit unto the mere external rite, baptizing infants in
that faith, teaching that thereby baptism and regeneration must be had; on
which principle he bestows orders, and, indeed, grounds all his Christianity,
which is contrary to the mind of the Holy Spirit.” f355
Leaving out infant baptism, this, condemned, is also a good picture of
Campbellism.
(4.) The Waldenses agreed with Baptists in that while they said: “In articles of
faith the authority of the Holy Scriptures is the highest; and for that reason is
the standard of judging,” f356 they said we: “agree with the general Confession
of Faith,” f357 etc. They believed in Confessions of Faith as useful in making
known their faith. Hence I have the opportunity of just quoting from two of
their Confessions. In their trial before a court, they said: “But according to the
decree of the court it is upon our Confession of Faith that we ought to be
examined.” As a result of this examination, showing the utility of Confessions
of Faith, the examiner said: “I have not only found this paper conformable to
the Holy Scripture, but, moreover, I have learned to understand them better
during these two or three days, than during all the rest of my life.” To this the
Romish prelate, impliedly accusing the examiner of being led over to
Waldensian belief, said: “You are under the influence of the devil.” On which
Muston remarks:
“The councillor withdrew; and as we shall not meet with him again in the
course of this history, it may here be added that this circumstance led him to
search the Scriptures still more than he had yet done, and that a year after he
went to Geneva, where he embraced Protestantism. Had the Confession of
Faith of the Vaudois churches produced only that result, there is enough of
good in the conversion and salvation of one immortal soul to make us regard
it with feelings of satisfaction, whatever temporal misfortunes may have
ensued from it.” f360
(5.) The Waldenses were Baptists as to the operation of the Holy Spirit. Article
III, of their Confession of A.D. 1544 reads:
“We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, proceeding from the Father
and the Son, by whose inspiration we are taught to pray; being by Him
renewed in the spirit of our minds; who creates us anew f358 unto good works,
and from whom we recover the know-ledge of the truth.” f361