. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. 3o8 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. numerous, sometimes nearly extinct, they survived to trie time of Luther, andlong after. Protestantism, which nourished during the sixteenth century inBohemia, was practically wiped out by the terrible Thirty Years War; but thelingering remnant of the ancient Brethren found refuge long after on the estatesof Count Zinzendorf, and their name, beliefs and usages are preserved by themost blameless of modern LYONS. CHAPTER XXL INQUIS
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. 3o8 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. numerous, sometimes nearly extinct, they survived to trie time of Luther, andlong after. Protestantism, which nourished during the sixteenth century inBohemia, was practically wiped out by the terrible Thirty Years War; but thelingering remnant of the ancient Brethren found refuge long after on the estatesof Count Zinzendorf, and their name, beliefs and usages are preserved by themost blameless of modern LYONS. CHAPTER XXL INQUISITION AND REFORMATION. HB struggles which we have followed in Languedoc,in England, and in Bohemia were specimens ofwhat was going on all over Europe. The spiritualdescendants of the Cathari, of Peter Waldo, and ofWiclif were everywhere, and everywhere the samearts and arms were employed against the north of Italy the Vandois, who claimedan earlier origin than the Waldenses, were theobjects of almost unremitting persecution forfive hundred years. The synod of Verona in1184 had pronounced a solemn curse on allheretics and those who sheltered them, orderedtheir property to be confiscated and their per-sons given over to the executioner, and antici-pated the methods of the Inquisition. The frightful engine which carried crueltyto its greatest height, and whose name standsto the modern mind for all that is most devilish,was the invention of the thirteenth then inquisitors had had to do with thetaxes : from about 1225 the word signified those w
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