why convert to orthodox christianity when waldensian proto protestant christianity exists?  > roman catholicism = secular politic = islam = talmudic judaism = slave to this world from foxe's book of martyrs: "persecution of the waldenses in france. popery having brought various innovations into the church, and overspread the christian world with darkness and superstition, some few, who plainly perceived the pernicious tendency of such errors, determined to show the light of the gospel in its real purity, and to disperse those clouds which artful priests had raised about it, in order to blind the people, and obscure its real brightness. the principal among these was berengarius, who, about the year 1000, boldly preached gospel truths, according to their primitive purity. many, from conviction, assented to his doctrine, and were, on that account, called berengarians. to berengarius succeeded peter bruis, who preached at thoulouse, under the protection of an earl, named hildephonsus; and the whole tenets of the reformers, with the reasons of their separation from the church of rome, were published in a book written by bruis, under the title of anti-christ. by the year of christ 1140, the number of the reformed was very great, and the probability of its increasing alarmed the pope, who wrote to several princes to banish them from their dominions, and employed many learned men to write against their doctrines. a. d. 1147, henry of thoulouse, being deemed their most eminent preacher, they were called henericians; and as they would not admit of any proofs relative to religion, but what could be deduced from the scriptures themselves, the popish party gave them the name of apostolics. at length, peter waldo, or valdo, a native of lyons, eminent for his piety and learning, became a strenuous opposer of popery; and from him the reformed, at that time, received the appellation of waldenses or waldoys.
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