THE HISTORY OF THE WALDENSES Synod in the Waldensian Valleys The
Old Vine seems DyingNew LifeThe ReformationTidings Reach the
WaldensesThey Send Deputies into Germany and Switzerland to
InquireJoy of OEcolampadiusHis Admonitory LetterWaldensian
Deputies at StrasburgThe Two Churches a Wonder to each
otherMartyrdom of One of the Deputies, Resolution to Call a
Synod in the ValleysIts Catholic CharacterSpot where it
MetConfession of Faith framedThe Spirit of the Vaudois
RevivesThey Rebuild their Churches, &c.Journey of Farel and
Saunier to the Synod. The Duke of Savoy was sincere in the
promise that the Vaudois should not be disturbed, but fully to
make it good was not altogether in his power. He could take care
that such armies of crusaders as that which mustered under the
standard of Cataneo should not invade their Valleys, but he
could not guard them from the secret machinations of the
priesthood. In the absence of the armed crusader, the missionary
and the inquisitor assailed them. Some were seduced, others w