WALDENSES.

Many authors of note make the antiquity of this denomination coeval with
the apostolic age. The following is an extract from their confession of
faith, which is said to have been copied out of certain manuscripts,
bearing date nearly four hundred years before the time of Luther:--

"1. That the Scriptures teach that there is one God, almighty,
all-wise, and all-good, who made all things by his goodness; for
he formed Adam in his own image and likeness; but that, by the
envy of the devil, sin entered into the world; and that we are
sinners in and by Adam.

"2. That Christ was promised to our fathers, who received the law;
that so knowing, by the law, their unrighteousness and
insufficiency, they might desire the coming of Christ, to satisfy
for their sins, and accomplish the law by himself.

"3. That Christ was born in the time appointed by God the Father;
that is to say, in the time when all iniquity abounded, that he
might show us grace and mercy, as being faithful; that Christ is
our life, truth, peace, and righteousness, as also our pastor,
advocate, and priest, who died for the salvation of all who
believe, and is risen for our justification; that there is no
mediator and advocate with God the Father, save Jesus Christ;
that, after this life, there are only two places, the one for the
saved, and the other for the damned; that the feasts, the vigils
of saints, the water which they call holy, as also to abstain from
flesh on certain days, and the like, but especially the masses,
are the inventions of men, and ought to be rejected; that the
sacraments are signs of the holy thing, visible forms of the
invisible grace; and that it is good for the faithful to use those
signs, or visible forms, but that they are not essential to
salvation; that there are no other sacraments but baptism and the
Lord's supper; that we ought to honor the secular powers, by
subjection, ready obedience, and paying of tribute."

ALLENITES.

The disciples of Henry Allen, of Nova Scotia, who began to propagate his
doctrines in that country about the year 1778, and died in 1783, during
which interval he made many proselytes, and at his death left a
considerable party behind him, though now much declined. He published
several treatises and sermons, in which he declares that the souls of all
the human race ar