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isser their forms ef worship. Some og tho more fortunssc had God Co other countries. where they preserved and kept alive tho lamp of truth a,nid,, the surrounding dark ness. The exirpsIion was so complete, that in less than Ihirty-Ihrce years from the beginning of the crusade, the Albigen- ScS were no more and when Protestant tism reared i;s head again Provence and LanguedOc, after an interval of three cen- luries, it was recognized under another name. This is the more extraordinary, & the more clearly indicative of the ruthless edict of extermination which had gone forth, from d comparison of the state of things in Piedmont, and the south of France. Tn" protestants of the former country had never been entirely eradicated, although they had been reduced from two hundred thousand to twenty thousand & from century to century remnant had still preserved their inheritance in the val- leyS of their forefatherS, and their dis tinguishcd denomination, Vaudois or Wal denSeS.

 But the unhappy Albigenses, from the situation of the country, were more expo Sed to that f"rejgn aggression which the Romanists stued up; and, not possessing the same natural fastnesSes and mountain retreats as the Wilderness, were entirely swept off from the face of the earth, and not a vestagc of them left. Albigensian principles indeed ,never failed even in Lam gucdoc, the scene of persecution but the Albigenses, or the communities properly so called and known hy this name in he thirteenth century, were utterl y destroyed. In the language If tho translator of Simon- dis narrative of the crllsades against Inc Albigenses, which has been no small as sistance to me in drawing up this article, Their church was drowned in blood, their race had disappeared: hundreds ot their villages had seen all their inhabitants massacred with blind fury, and without the crusaders giving themselves trouble to examine whether they contained d single heretic. No calculation can ascertain with any precision, the dsipation of wealth, CT the destruction of human life, which were the consequences of the crusade against the AIbigenses. Every species of injustice, and persecution of every kind had been heaped upon the heads of the unhappy Languedocians, whom, since the crusade. it had been the custom to comprehend under the general name of Albigenses."