Facts and Documents Illustrative of the History, Doctrine and Rites of the Ancient Vallenses and Albigenses

SECTION I.

REVIEW OF MR. FABER'S TESTIMONIES.

Mr. FABER says that from the prediction respecting the Apocalyptic witnesses:

“We learn that, throughout the entire period of the latter 1260 years, while the outer court and the holy city were trodden down by the Gentiles, there should always be a considerable body of measured or faithful worshippers within the precincts of the allegorical temple, and that two whole churches should be eminent and remarkable for synchronically at the same time prophesying in sackcloth and for bearing their testimony to the truth with a sound and enlightened conscience.” Sac. Cal. III. 22.

He afterwards adds that the:

“Two churches must be two distinct ecclesiastical communities, taken out of the great collective body of the measured worshippers, which should, eminently and in their corporate capacity as churches, bear their testimony, though in a depressed and persecuted condition, throughout the entire period of the latter 1260 years. What, then, are the two distinct churches which answer to this description? Where are we to find two churches or two ecclesiastical communities which, standing upon the geographical platform of the Western