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who lived before the middle of the thirteenth century. Heingenuously acknowledgeth, ‘That the heresy of those he callsWaudois, or poor people of Lyons, was of great antiquity. mongstall sects, saith he, cap. 4. that either are or have been, there isnone more dangerous to the Church than that of the Leonists, andthat for three reasons: the first is, because it is the sect that is ofthe longest standing of any; for some say it hath been continueddown ever since the time of Pope Sylvester, and others, ever sincethat of the Apostles. The second is, because it is the most generalof all sects; for scarcely is there any country to be found, wherethis sect hath not spread itself.’” (The Ecclesiastical History ofthe Ancient Churches of the Piedmont and the Albigenses by PeterAllix D.D., p. 185)“The Reformers held that the Waldensian Church was formedabout 120 A.D., from which date on, they passed down fromfather to son the teachings they received from the apostles.” (OurAuthorized Bible Vindicated by B. G. Willkinson, p. 33)J.N. Andrews quotes another writer in the following statement.“President Edwards says:—‘Some of the popish writersthemselves own that this people never submitted to the church ofRome. One of the popish writers, speaking of the Waldenses,says, The heresy of the Waldenses is the oldest heresy in theworld. It is supposed that they first betook themselves to thisplace among the mountains, to hide themselves from the severityof the heathen persecutions which existed before Constantine theGreat.’ (Edward’s History of Redemption, period 3, part 4, sec.2)” (The History of the Sabbath, p. 303)In order to trace the history of the Waldenses we have tounderstand that they were called by many other names in differentlocalities because the “Catholics had also spent a very long timetrying to pretend that these people had no continuous history andthat they were local aberrations in time and space of a peculiar42