"Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of the Alps,
who were called Sabbati, Sabbatati, Insabbatati, but more frequently
Inzabbatati. "One says they were so named from the Hebrew word
Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord's day.'" General
History of the Baptist Denomination, Vol.II, P. 413
Lombardy
"Traces of Sabbath-keepers are found in the times of Gregory
I, Gregory VII, and in the twelfth century in Lombardy." Strong's
Cyclopaedia, 1, 660
Spain (Alphonse of Aragon)
"Alphonse, king of Aragon, etc., to all archbishops, bishops
and to all others...'We command you that heretics, to wit, Waldenses
and Insabbathi, should be expelled away from the face of God and
from all Catholics and ordered to depart from our kingdom.'"
Marianse, Praefatio in Lucam Tudensem, found in "Macima Gibliotheca
Veterum Patrum," Vol.25, p.190
Hungary France, England, Italy, Germany. (Referring to the Sabbath-
keeping Pasagini) "The spread of heresy at this time is almost
incredible. From Gulgaria to the Ebro, from nothern France to the
Tiber, everywhere we meet them. Whole countries are infested, like
Hungary and southern France; they abound in many other countries,
in Germany, in Italy, in the Netherlands and even in England they
put forth their efforts." Dr. Hahn, "Gesch. der Ketzer."
1, 13, 14
Waldenses
"Among the documents. we have by the same peoples, an explanation
of the Ten Commandments dated by Boyer 1120. Observance of the Sabbath
by ceasing from worldly labours, is enjoined." Blair, History
of the Waldenses, Vol.1, p. 220
"Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of the
Alps, who were called Sabbati, Sabbatati, Insabbatati, but more
frequently Inzabbatati. "One says they were so named from the
Hebrew word Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord's
day.'" General History of the Baptist Denomination, Vol.II,
P. 413
Wales
"There is much evidence that the Sabbath prevailed in Wales
university until A.D.1115, when the first Roman bishop was seated
at St. David's. The old Welsh Sabbath-keeping churches did not even
then altogether bow the knee to Rome, but fled to their hiding places."
Lewis, "Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America," Vol.1,
p.29
France
"For twenty years Peter de Bruys stirred southern France. He
especialy emphasised a day of worship that was recognized at that
time among the Celtic churches of the British Isles, among the Paulicians,
and in the great Church of the East namely, the the seventh day
of the fourth commandment."
Pasagini
The papal author, Bonacursus, wrote the following against the "Pasagaini":
"Not a few, but many know what are the errors of those who
are called Pasaagini...First, they teach that we should obey the
Sabbath. Furthermore, to increase their error, they condemn and
reject all the church Fathers, and the whole Roman Church."
D'Achery, Spicilegium I,f.211-214; Muratory, Antiq. med. aevi.5,
f.152, Hahn, 3, 209
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