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Baptists. Keller insists throughout that the old evangelical party was
fundamentally Baptist.” f666
Dr. Brockett who has made this study a specialty says as we have seen, that the
Waldenses, Paulicians, etc., were identical. The Paulicians:
“planted the standard of the cross in northern Italy, south of France; and from
the good seed sown by these faithful souls, who, under the guise of peddlers
or traveling merchants, scattered the word of God everywhere, there sprang
up congregations of the Albigenses, the Vaudois, the Cathari (an old name of
the Paulicians), the Waldenses and the Paulicani, a corruption of the name by
which they were best known.” f667
In a letter to the author, Dr. W.W. Everts, Jr., says:
“I think the Waldenses, Albigenses, Petrobrussians and Henricians, etc., all
stood on the shoulders of the Paulicians.”
Muston says:
“The Vaudois were ‘more probably’ holding ‘some connection’ with the
Petrobrussians.” f668
The Petrobrussians and the Waldenses were so clearly one that, to get rid of
the Waldensian documents to Waldensian antiquity, the great Romish
controversionalist, Bishop Bossuet — ascribed them to Peter de Bruis. f669
Says Muston of 1165, before Waldo’s day:
“A numerous detachment of Albegeois, leaving the south of France, took
refuge in the valleys of Piedmont, whereby they united themselves with the
Vaudois both in doctrine and worship.” f670
A.D. 1119: “Council of Toulouse; decrees of the Inquisition against the
heretics who existed partly in Italy and partly in France.” f671 The Romish
opponent, Father Stephen, almost a contemporary of Waldo, says the: “Poor
men of Lyons” — Waldo’s followers — “joined with other heretics of
Provence and Lombardy whose errors they have adopted and propagated.”
(“Postea in provincial terra et Lombardiae cum aliis haereticis se admiscentes,
et errorem cerrorem bibentes et serentes.”) f672
Muston quotes a personal letter from M. Gieseler:
“Indeed it cannot he doubled that before the days of Waldo Peter de Bruis and
Henry condemned the errors of the Catholic church. … Nor is it improbable
that Peter sowed the seed of his doctrine in his native valley and left followers
there; and thus we can explain how Pope Urban found the valley full of
heretics. And it is also likely enough that of the remaining disciples of Peter
and Henry many joined the Valdenses, in whom they found the same zeal for