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ft638 Idea, p. 539.
ft639 Dr. A.H. Newman, in Rap. Quart. Rev.,.July 1885, p. 807.
ft640 Todd’s Books of the Vaudois, Preface, p. 14.
ft641 Dr. Newman, in Bap. Quart. Rev., July 1885, p. 305.
ft642 Todd’s Books of the Vaudois, p. 126.
ft643 Todd’s Books of the Vaudois, p. 152.
ft644 Israel of the Alps, vol. 2, p. 540.
ft645 Idem, p. 538.
ft646 Israel of the Alps, vol. 2. D. 525.
ft647 Idem, p. 525.
ft648 The Books of the Vaudois, by Todd, p. 169.
ft649 Idem, p. 524.
ft650 Idem, p. 3.
ft651 The Baptist position.
ft652 Israel of the Alps, vol. 1, pp. 7-10.
ft653 Idem, vol. 2, p. 406.
ft654 Wadington’s Ch. 121st., p. 220.
ft655 Neander’s Ch. Hist., vol. 3, pp. 432, 433, 437, 439; also Schaff-Herzog
Ency., vol. 1, p. 491.
ft656 Kurtz’s Ch. Hist., vol. 1, p. 369.
ft657 Neanders’ Hist. Chr. Ch., vol. 3, p. 433.
ft658 Robinson’s Heel. Resh., p. 452.
ft659 Had the Bishop of Turin and his diocese been Romish, and the Waldenses
had their membership in his churches, it would not follow that they were
not Baptists; since, in different ages, Baptists. to escape persecution,
probably while in secret, maintaining their own organizations, have been,
yet, members of the Romish or of sonic persecuting Protestant church.
Even to-day this is the case. Thus, Rev. Edmund F. Merriam, Editorial
Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, in The Watchman of
Boston, January 4, 1894, of the Baptist in Sweden, under Lutheran
persecution, writes: “In accordance with the peculiar laws, they still remain
as nominal members of the State church, but are almost everywhere
permitted the free and untrammelled exercise of their own religious
worship. In former times there was much persecution.” This may serve as
the answer to the objection: “Waldenses. and other dissenters could not
have been Baptist churches because they were, sometimes, members of the