Answ. By a living faith, and true repentance, saying, "Repent ye, and believe the Gospel." Min. Whence proceedeth this hope? Answ. From the gift of God, and the promises of which the Apostle mentioneth," He is powerful to perform whatsoever he promiseth." For he hath promised himself, that whosoever shall know him, and repent, and shall hope in him, he will have mercy upon, pardon, and justify, &c. Min. What are the things that put us beside this hope? Answ. A dead faith, the seduction of Antichrist to believe in other things beside Christ, that is to say, in Saints, in the power of that Antichrist, in his authority, words, and benedictions, in sacraments, reliques of the dead, in purgatory, which is but forged and contrived, in teaching that faith is obtained by those ways which oppose themselves to the truth, and are against the commandments of God. As is idolatry in divers respects. As also by wickedness and simony, &c. Forsaking the fountain of living water given by grace, and running to broken cisterns, worshipping, honouring, and serving the creature by prayers, by fastings, by sacrifices, by donations, by offerings, by pilgrimages, by invocations, &c. Relying upon themselves for the acquiring of grace, which none can give save only God in Christ. In vain do they labour, and lose their money and their lives, and the truth is, they do not only lose their present life, but also that which is to come; wherefore it is said, that "the hope of fools shall perish." Min. And what dost thou say of the blessed Virgin Mary? For she is full of grace, as the angel testifies, "I salute thee full of grace." Answ. The blessed Virgin was and is full of grace, as much as is necessary for her own particular salvation, but not to communicate to others, for her Son alone is full of grace, and can communicate the same as he pleaseth, and "We have all received of his fulness, grace for grace." Min. Believest thou not the communion of saints? Answ. I believe that there are two sorts of things wherein the saints communicate, the first substantial, the other ministerial. As to the substantials, they communicate by the Holy Spirit, in God through the merit of Jesus Christ: as to the ministerials or ecclesiastics, they communicate by the ministry duly performed, namely, by the word, by the sacraments, and by prayer; I believe both the one and the other of these communions of saints. The first only in God, and in Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost by the Holy Spirit. The other in the church of Christ. Min. Wherein consists eternal life? Answ. In a living and operating faith, and in perseverance in the same. Our Saviour says, John xvii. “This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." And "he that endures to the end shall be saved." GENERAL INDEX. A. ABDUCTION of Vaudois children by Aiguebelle, description of, 37, 38. Alexander III. Pope, persecutes Peter Aliries, Col d', description of, 162. Alpine bridges, description of, 38. 100, Alpine cottages described, 129-132. Alps, description of, 38-40. Ancient ritual and discipline of the Vaudois, the primitive, 249. Heights of, 106.-Torrent of, 107. Antiquity of Vaudois church, proofs tory, 56. Arc river, description of, 36-38. Assistance rendered to the Vaudois Auricular confession, its dangerous Aymond de la Voye, his fortitude B. Baceglia, or Balsille, fortress of, de- Barbes, Waldensian, 79. Barbetti, meaning of the word, 134. Beauty, personal, not a distinction of at the chapel of the British Ambas- Beza, his testimony of the Vaudois, Bible, first complete in French, printed Birague, Governor of Saluzzo, 159. by the Vaudois, 199. Bishop of London, his charge on the Bobbio, a Vaudois village, descrip- Books, a list of, required by the Vau- Bouquetin, Leger's description of, 137. Boyer's "History of the Vaudois," Braschi, Pope Pius VI. anecdote of, Brianza, Cure of Luzerna, generously apprises the Vaudois of the plot British royal pension to the Vaudois, C. Caligula, a tyrannical edict of, 15. Carmagnola, interview between Victor Amadeus II. and Prince Eugene, at, 52. Casteluzzo, description of the crag, Catechetical instruction, importance Catechisms of the Vaudois, 80, 81. Cathari, Vaudois not, 79, 80. Catinat, General, anecdote of, 53. Cenis, Mount, passage of, described, Chaille, La, tremendous pass of, de- Châlets, mountain, 83. 125. Changes in the ritual of the Vaudois, Chapel, British, at Paris, 7.-At Turin, trates the Vaudois fund, 89.-His Charles Emmanuel II. persecutor of Châteaus, venerable French, 8. Christophel, Count, anecdotes of, 193. -Persecutes the Vaudois, ibid. Church, acceptation of the word among Church of San Giovanni described, INDEX. Clementi, Paoli, a Vaudois martyr, his Clergy of the Vaudois, their laborious Cluses, treachery of its inhabitants towards the Vaudois exiles, 176. College of Angrogna, 75. 133. 249.- Its beneficial effects if restored, 206. Commenius, Bohemian Bishop and Communion service in the Protestant Communion, solemnities previous to, Concessions granted to the Vaudois, Corruptions of the Roman church, the progress of, 251.-Never extended Cromwell, Oliver, protector of the Cruelties, monstrous, inflicted on the Vaudois, 213-217.-On Wal- D. lxxix Dancing, formerly prohibited, but now Distressed condition of the Vaudois Description of the passage of the Alps Discovery of a silver votive tablet at Disputant, a French, 37. Distressed English lady at Turin, Dominican Monk, anecdote of, 158, 159. Doire, Dora, or Duria, the river, 30. Dumas, General, attacks the batteries Dungald, the theologian, 22. E. Ecclesiastical discipline of the Vaudois, Echelles, Les, description of, 35. dois, 53. 86. 92. 103. 118-120. English burial-service, its beauty, 209. Episcopacy, formerly prevailed in the Vaudois church, 73, 74.-Vaudois |