is made of unsifted rye meal, baked only once a year. In La Comb, the sun is never seen for six months. The inhabitants speak Patois, and at first they fled from Mr Nef, but he attracted them by music. He pleased them much by teaching them to form a canal to water the meadows. He founded a school, in which he taught reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, and geography, always beginning and ending with religious instruction. Some of the people did not even know of the existence of other countries. This indefatigable, most devoted, and self-denied servant of God, sunk under his extraordinary exertions."

APPENDIX.

No. I.

ANCIENT WALDENSIAN CONFESSIONS OF FAITH.

First Confession, dated 1120.

1. We believe, and firmly hold, all that is contained in the twelve articles of the symbol, which is called the Apostles' Creed, accounting for heresy whatsoever differs from, and is not agreeable to, the said twelve articles.

2. We believe that there is one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. We acknowledge for the holy canonical Scriptures, the books of the Holy Bible, viz. (Here follow the names of the books of the Old and New Testaments, in the order in which they are placed in the received canon.)

4. The above mentioned books teach us, that there is one God, all powerful, all wise, and all

good; who through his goodness has made all things. For he created Adam after his own image and likeness, and similitude; but through the envy of the devil, and his own disobedience, sin entered into the world, and we became sinners in and by Adam.

5. That Christ was promised to our fathers who received the law; so that by the law, having a just idea of their sins, and their want of justice and insufficiency, they desired the coming of Christ to make satisfaction for their sins, and accomplish the law in himself.

6. That Christ was born at the time appointed by God the Father; that is to say, at the time when iniquity abounded, to shew that it was not for the sake of our good works, for all were sinners, but that he who is faithful might display towards us his grace and mercy.

7. That Christ is our life, our peace, and our righteousness; our shepherd, advocate, sacrifice, and priest, who died for the salvation of all believers, and rose again for their justification.

8. We firmly believe that there is no other Mediator and Advocate with God the Father, but Jesus Christ. And as to the Virgin Mary, she was holy, humble, and full of grace, which

we believe concerning all other saints, who expect in heaven the resurrection of their bodies at the day of judgment.

9. Also, we believe that after this life, there are but two places; the one for the saved, and the other for the damned; the which two places we call paradise and hell, absolutely denying that purgatory invented by Antichrist, and forged contrary to the truth.

10. We have always accounted as an unspeakable abomination before God, all those inventions of men, viz. the feasts and the vigils of saints, the water which they call holy, the abstaining from flesh upon certain days, and similar things; but especially the mass.

11. We abominate as Antichristian, all those human inventions which are a trouble or a prejudice to the liberty of the spirit.

12. We believe that the sacraments are signs of the holy thing, or visible forms of the invisible grace, accounting it good that the faithful sometimes use the said signs or visible forms, if it may be done. However, we believe and hold, that the aforesaid faithful may be saved without receiving the aforesaid signs, in case they have no place nor any means to use them.

13. We acknowledge no other sacraments, but Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

14. We ought to honour the secular power, by our submission, obedience, and paying of tribute.

Second Confession, dated 1532.

1. Divine service cannot be performed but in spirit and in truth; because God is a Spirit, and whosoever will worship, must do so in spirit.

2. All those that have been, or shall be saved, were elected by God before the foundation of the world.

3. All who are appointed to salvation will be saved, having been chosen by God before the foundation of the world.

4. Whoever upholds free-will, absolutely denies predestination and the grace of God.

5. No work can be called good, but what is commanded by God to be performed, and none bad, but what he forbids.

6. A Christian may swear by the name of God, without disobeying what is written in Matth. v. provided he does not take the name of God in vain. And it is not in vain, when the oath is for the glory of God, and the salvation of a man's neighbour. In like manner, a