# Demonstration Of A Plain Distinction Between The Albigenses And Their Magistrates And Fellow-Citizens.

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The last-mentioned writer, proceeding to the violence
and vexation suffered by the Albigenses from
the papists—ecclesiastics as well as seculars, makes
mention of Raymond, count of Toulouse, and of
the count of Turenne, saying: That they went to
Peter, the cardinal and legate of the Pope, in order
that they should kill or slay the heretics (the Albigenses),
if the latter should not be converted to the
Roman church through the cardinals’ preaching.
Having arrived at Toulouse, they made the citizens
swear an oath that they would name all the Albigenses
they knew. Many of them were now betrayed,
and among these, also Peter Moranus, one
of their principal men. When he was examined, he
freely confessed his faith; and was instantly condemned
as a heretic, and all his property confiscated.
Introduction, p. 51, col. 1, 2, from Baron.,
A. D. 1178, num. 2.

Note.—From the aforementioned eight arguments,
but especially from this last demonstration,
it appears incontrovertibly, that a great distinction
must be made, between the Albigenses and their
magistrates, as well as the citizens among whom
they lived in the cities; so that whenever resistance,
war or conflict are spoken of, in which the inhabitants
of this or that city or place engaged, it is to be
understood throughout of the magistrates and their
soldiers, who guarded said cities or places, as also,
of the common citizens; but not of the true Albigenses,
since these, in accordance with their faith,
as has already been sufficiently stated, exercised
no revenge or resistance against any one, but lived
peaceably under their magistrates; to whom they
also, as was proper, paid their taxes.

However, that we may not give offense to our
fellow-believers, if any should entertain a different
opinion in regard to this matter, although it has
been sufficiently explained by us, we shall adduce
the principal confessors who suffered in the besieged
cities for the doctrine of the Albigensian religion,
not as infallible witnesses, but as incidental matters;
which the kind reader will please regard as having
been done by us from no other motive than Christian
prudence.



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