We turn again to Jean Paul Perrin, whose testimony regarding matters of the faith of the Waldenses has, from of old, been very highly esteemed. Among other things, he gives an account of the precepts which they left for the building up of a virtuous life; in regard to which, the following is designed to promote a virtuous and godfearing deportment towards those that are without. In the History of the Waldenses and Albigenses, 3d part, 1st book, 10th chapter, page 153, we read literally, in the Waldensian and in the English [Dutch, the original says] tongue, as follows:
En qual modo le poble se de aver a aquilli guae son de fora?
“How shall our intercourse be with those that are without?”
1. Non amar lo mond.
We must not love the world.
2. Fugir la mala consortia.
We must shun evil company.
3. Si es possible aver paz cum fuit.
We must, if possible, live in peace with all men.
4. Non contendre en judici.
We must not go to law.
5. Non veniar si meseine.
We must not avenge ourselves.
6. Amar li ennemic.
We must love our enemies.
7. Voler sustenir trabails, calomnias, menasas, reprovance, vergognas, eriurias, & totas generations de tormens per la verita.