# Further Observations Touching The Origin And Faith Of These Martyrs.

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“For further explanation of this history,” writes
Mellinus, “which has been written by a bitter papist,
the reader must be reminded to imitate the bee—which
extracts honey from the same flower out of
which the toad draws poison—and, contemning the
bitterness of the words of our adversaries, to pay
regard only to the matter itself.

That he (the papistic writer) says, that these
Christians, whom he calls Publicans, had their origin
from an unknown author,[162](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-12/#Footnote_162) leads Vignierius to suppose,
that they may have sprung from Peter Bruis,
or from his companion, Henry of Toulouse. Guido
of Perpigna, however, thinks they belonged to the
Poor Men of Lyons, that is, the Waldenses. In lib.
de Haeresib. Bal. Centur. 2, in Append. ad Gervasium
Giestrensum. See also Abr. Mell., 2d book,
fol. 440, col. 1.

Note.—In regard to what was the belief of Peter
Bruis and his companion, Henry of Toulouse, as
well as of the Poor Men of Lyons, that is, the Waldenses,
we have already shown, that it is not at variance
with the belief of the Anabaptists, but much
rather accords with it; and hence it is evident that
these thirty persons, who made said confession,
were true martyrs, since they suffered for the true
faith, and the truth of Jesus Christ. Concerning
these martyrs, see also five years later, Mart. Paris,
lib. 5.



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