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teachings of Peter de Bruys, and it is highly probable that these great teachers
were subject to substantially the same evangelizing influences and reached
substantially the same views as to the evils of the time and the remedy
therefor. In Cologne we find, about 1446, before the death of Henry,
evangelical Christians of the Petrobrussian type, side by side with Cathari and
vigorously op-posing them.” f600
Dollinger, the great Romish historian, argues the indentity of these: “sects.”
First, because “the Cathari are known to have existed in considerable numbers
in the territory in which Peter and Henry labored;” second: “these regions were
soon overrun with Manichaean or Catharistic heretics;” third: “there is no
evidence that the followers of Peter and Henry persisted as a party distinct
from the Cathari during the succeeding century;” fourth: “that to suppose Peter
and Henry to have been other than Catharistic would be to admit the existence
of a party and a set of views, for the origin and the subsequent disappearance
of which we cannot account.” f601
Says Brockett, one of the highest authorities:
“The substantial identity of these sects, which under so many different names
were spread over all Western Europe and their origin from the Protestants of
Bulgaria and Bosnia was strongly suspected by others than Regnier even in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Perhaps the earliest writer who gives
positive testimony on this point is William Little, of Newbury, A.D. 1136-
1220.” f602
Again:
“Evans in his recent monograph on the history of Bosnia, has with great labor
and research made an exhaustive study of the subject, and brought the most
conclusive proofs of all these early Protestants from a common source and
that source the Bogomiles of Bosnia and Bulgaria. Jirecek, a recent Bohemian
writer on Bosnia and Bulgaria, and Hilferding, a Russian historian of Servia
and Bulgaria, under which he includes Bosnia, both adduce official evidence
of the affiliation of the Bogomiles with the Waldenses, the Bohemians, and
the Moravians, as well as their identity with the ‘Poor men of Lyons,’ the
Vaudois, the Henricians and the so-called heretics of Toulouse, the Patarines
of Dalmatia and Italy, the Petrobrussians, the Bulgares or Bourgres and the
Catharists of Spain. Matthew Paris, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph, of
Coggeshale, three of the most renowned of the early British chroniclers,
testify to their presence in large numbers at this period in Toulouse, in
Provence, in Flanders, and in England, and that they were called in the latter
two countries Publicani or Poplicani, a corruption of Paulicians. All these
writers trace them directly or indirectly to their origin in Bosnia.” f603
Again, says Brockett: