'* II. That, to ascertain the origin of the Waldenses, we must recur not only
to an age prior to that of Peter Waldo, but to the first ages of the Christian
Church.
'* III. That the Waldenses have both stedfastly adhered to true doctrines
from age to age, and opposed the noveUies that Rome superadded from time to
time to the Christian fidth.
" TV. That, with the exception of the Primitive Church, founded by Christ
and his first Disciples, no Christian people have been more distinguished for rare
virtues and irreproachable morals.
'* V. That, dnce the Apostolic Age, no Christian Church has shewn more
ceal for the Propagation of the Gospel, or greater fortitude and constancy under
long and severe trials and afflictions.
** Next to these letters, the Volume will contain M. Peyrani's Reply to the
Roman Catholic BUhop qfPignerol, who, in his Pastoral addresses, had animad-
verted on the religious opinions of the Waldenses, and endeavoured to persuade
them to embrace the tenets of the Church of Rome. This reply may be consi-
dered a specimen of M. Peyrani's great skill and temperate spirit as a controver-
sialist, and is characterized by a train of reasoning that undennines at once the
very foundations of the Church of Rome, and Justifies the Protestant Churdiesin
their separation from that apostate Church.
