Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

“The Bogomiles were a branch of the Cathari. Herzog thinks … they were an
offshoot from the Paulicians.” f590
Of the Paulicians, Armitage says:
“The empress Theodora issued fresh edicts against them and between A.D.
832 and 846 one hundred thousand of them were put to death in the most
barbarous manner. Infuriated with their persecutors, they took up arms in self
defense, and the contest continued in one shape and another until in 973 large
numbers of them were transported to Phillippopolis, south of the Balkan
mountains, in what is now called Bulgaria. For more than a century the
Paulicians stood with unbroken fortitude, which the sword was unable to
suppress. Like men they defended their rights to home, religion and liberty
under the holy sanctions of rebellion against intolerable tyranny. And now
they were accorded full religious liberty in their transportation, on condition
that they would guard the borders against the pagans. But the conflict between
them and the Greeks continued till the twelfth century. Alexius Comnenus put
forth some kind efforts to reclaim them but failed, and they finally took refuge
in Europe, where we shall meet them again amongst the Albigenses.” f591
The Encyclopedia Britannica says:
“The Paulicians continued to exist in Thrace until at least in the beginning of
the thirteenth century, as did also the Euchites, afterwards Bogomilles, who
had been attracted to that locality by the toleration of Tzimisces. Meanwhile
branch societies of the Paulicians established themselves in Italy, France, and
appear under different names, such as Bulgaria, Patereni, Cathari and
Albigenses.” f592
Hallam says, the Albigenses came from one of the seats of Paulician power:
“The derivation of these sects from Bulgaria is sufficiently proved.” f593
Well, therefore, says the Revised Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica:
“The sect of the Albigenses may be traced with tolerable distinctness from the
Paulicians.” f594
In the foregoing is demonstrated that the Cathari, under its various names, are
the Paulicians. Of course, there may have been, under the various names, some
who were not Baptists. But the facts demonstrate that, in the main, they were
essentially Baptists.
Gieseler says:
“The Cathari, or as they were now commonly called, the Albigenses or
Bulgarians. … maintained in all lands a very close connection with each
other.” f596
Again;