. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . nev-er added to by faiths borrowed in realityfrom heathen worship. The creed and therites of the Apostolic Church, if we may be-lieve their story, were maintained uncor-rupted during the dark ages which inter-vened between the origin of Christianityand its final enfranchisement in the sixteenthcentury. However that may be, it is certainthat in the eleventh century there existedin the valleys of the Piedmont a peoplewh
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . nev-er added to by faiths borrowed in realityfrom heathen worship. The creed and therites of the Apostolic Church, if we may be-lieve their story, were maintained uncor-rupted during the dark ages which inter-vened between the origin of Christianityand its final enfranchisement in the sixteenthcentury. However that may be, it is certainthat in the eleventh century there existedin the valleys of the Piedmont a peoplewhose ritual was exceedingly simple, andwhose faith was as child-like as it was ear-nest and devout. Their home was amongthe wildest and most secluded of those Al-pine fastnesses which lie between the Clu-soue and the Pelice, two mountain torrentswhich fall into the river Po. Subjects ofthe King of Sardinia, and inhabitin»- a terri-tory on the frontiers of France, they were nei-ther exactly French nor altogether Italianin manners, customs, religion, or entire territory embraced scarceTv six-teen square miles. The three valleys which WALDENSES 9G1 WALDENSES. 61 WALDENSES 962 WALDENSES they occupied never could have, containedmore than a population of twenty confession of their faith, bearing date , still exists in MSB. in Cambridge, En-gland. A catechism of a little later date—the thirteenth century — is also authenticity of these documents is un-doubted. They exhibit a faith not material-ly different from that of the later show that as early as the twelfth cen-tury, if not, as they claim, from the earliestages, the Waldenses held to the doctrine ofthe Trinity, the inspiration of the Scriptures,original sin, salvation through Christ, a fu-ture life of punishment andreward, a univers-al Church, and the two sacraments of Bap-tism and the Lords Supper; and that theyEmphatically rejected salvation by works,the inter
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