Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

manuscripts from the churches of Judea to the
churches of northern Italy and so on, brought to the
forerunners of the Waldenses a Bible different
from the Bible of Roman Catholicism, I quote the
following:
“The method which Allix has pursued, in his
History of the Churches of Piedmont, is to show
that in the ecclesiastical history of every century,
from the fourth century, which he considers a
period early enough for the enquirer after
apostolical purity of doctrine, there are clear proofs
that doctrines, unlike those which the Romish
Church holds, and conformable to the belief of the
Waldensian and Reformed Churches, were
maintained by theologians of the north of Italy
down to the period, when the Waldenses first came
into notice. Consequently the opinions of the
Waldenses were not new to Europe in the eleventh
or twelfth centuries, and there is nothing
improbable in the tradition, that the Subalpine
Church persevered in its integrity in an
uninterrupted course from the first preaching of the
Gospel in the valleys.”[25]
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