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“But it is due to candor to say, that we deem it quite probable, if not certain,
though we have never examined this point with much care, that there were
other branches of the Waldenses, for they were numerous, which did neither
hold nor practice infant baptism. It would be difficult upon any other
hypothesis to account for the opinion, confidently maintained and, without
doubt, most honestly too, by the excellent brethren who reject pedobaptism,
that the Waldenses were Baptists.” f401
Henry S. Burrage:
“Certain it is that some of the Waldensians, how many we cannot say, but
doubtless they were not few, adopted early in the thirteenth century the views
of other separatists who were antipedobaptists.” f402
Fusslin:
“They not only reject infant baptism, but highly esteem baptism itself.” f403
“There were in Switzerland Waldensians who rejected infant baptism.” f404
Fusslin:
“The Anabaptists were not wrong, therefore, when they say that anabaptism
was no new thing. The Waldensians had practiced it before them.” f406
Of Waldo and the Waldenses, Samuel M. Schmucker says:
“One of the most prominent doctrines which he and his followers believed
was the impropriety of the baptism of infants and the necessity of immersion
to the validity of any baptism.” f407
Mosheim says of the Baptists:
“It may be observed. … that they are not entirely mistaken when they boast of
their descent from the Waldenses and the Petrobrussians.” f408
But if the Waldenses were adherents of infant baptism the Baptists could not
have descended from them.
The Baptists:
“appear supported by history in considering themselves the descendents of the
Waldenses.” f409
Limborch:
“To speak candidly what I think of all the modern sects of Christians, the
Dutch Baptists mostly resemble the Albigenses and the Waldenses.” f410
Ludo Vives, who wrote in the sixteenth century, having observed that: