. The book of similitudes: . were indebted fortheir existence and support to the intercession made forthem by the English and Dutch governments, and alsoby the Swiss cantons, who solicited the clemency ofthe duke of Savoy on their behalf. Milton, the poet, who lived at this time, touched withsympathy for the suffering of the Waldenses, pennedthe following exquisite sonnet: On the late Massacre in Piedmont* Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bonesLie scatterd on the Alpine mountains cold;Een them who kept thy truth so pure of old,When all our fathers worshippd stocks and stones,Forge
. The book of similitudes: . were indebted fortheir existence and support to the intercession made forthem by the English and Dutch governments, and alsoby the Swiss cantons, who solicited the clemency ofthe duke of Savoy on their behalf. Milton, the poet, who lived at this time, touched withsympathy for the suffering of the Waldenses, pennedthe following exquisite sonnet: On the late Massacre in Piedmont* Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bonesLie scatterd on the Alpine mountains cold;Een them who kept thy truth so pure of old,When all our fathers worshippd stocks and stones,Forget not; in thy book record their groansWho were thy sheep, and in their ancient foldSlain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolldMother with infant down the rocks. Their moansThe vales redoubled to hills, and theyTo heavn, their martyrd blood and ashes sow 462 Oer all the Italian fields, where still doth swayThe tripled tyrant; that from these may growA hundred fold, who, having learned thy way,Early may fly the Babylonian MASSACRE OF THE WALDENSES IN PIEDMONT, NORTHERN PART OF ITALY. 463 Recent historians state that the Waldenses, Van-dois, or people of the valleys, have existed for along time under various names, as a distinct classof dissenters from the Greek and Roman same great principles of attachment to theword of God, and the determined adherance to thesimplicity of its doctrine, discipline, institutions,and worship, in opposition to the innovations of asecular spirit on the one hand, and of false philo-sophy, or pretended apostolic traditions on theother, maybe traced under the names of Novatians,Donatists, &c, from the third to the seventh cen-turies. They re-appear in the Paulicians from theseventh to the end of the ninth century, worthilysustaining by their preaching, their lives, and theirmartyrdoms, their claim of being the genuine de-scendants of the primitive churches. From AsiaMinor they spread themselves into Europe. Theywere first discovered in
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