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“Time would fail me,” writes this zealous man,
“if I were to recount all the falsities of the papists,
in life, doctrine, and sacraments; and still they can
endure no admonition to reform, but persecute with
fire and sword, those who admonish and reprove
them.” Ex Author. Tempor., A. D. 1218, compared
with the History of the Martyrs, by J. S., edition
1645, fol. 32, col. 1–3. Gerard de la Motte,
deacon of the Christians called Albi-Waldenses, with
some of his fellow-believers, burnt for the faith, at
Borriens, A. D. 1227.

When the believing defenseless Albi-Waldenses[177](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-13/#Footnote_177)
had enjoyed rest for a season, and the lily of their
true faith was beginning, in some measure, to grow
and blossom, in all purity and beauty (as compared
with former times), the thorns of persecution immediately
arose over it; inasmuch as these pious and
upright people were forthwith deprived of their liberty,
by the Romanists; so that as soon as it was
noticed, that they increased, here or there, though
secretly, under the protection of their authorities,
means were sought without delay, to subdue, yea,
utterly to exterminate, them.

This appeared A. D. 1227, when, upon the mere
report that a few of these people resided in the town
of Borriens, the whole place (in order to apprehend
them), was besieged and enclosed by Humbert of
Beaujeu, who, having made himself master of the
place, and having entered it, apprehended said people,
and, as they would not desist from their faith,
caused them to be burnt alive; all of whom testified
to the truth and uprightness of their faith, as gold in
the furnace, by their steadfast death in the midst of
the flames.

Certain papistic writers say, that there were
some in Borriens, who were said to be heretics, and
who, as they would not desist from their belief, were
burnt alive; among whom there is mentioned one
Gerard de la Motte, who, it is said, was their deacon
or minister. This is stated to have occurred A. D.
1227, in the time of Humbert of Beaujeu, whom the
king had left in Languedoc. Vignier, Hist. Eccles.,
from Vincentius and others already cited, and Chron.
Montfortensi Hist. Adde Gaguin., lib. 7, and Paul.
Aemil., lib. 7, de Cest. Franc. in Lud. 8. Also,
Abr. Mell., 2d book, page 464, col. 3.



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