"The famous Jesuit, Francis Xavier, called
for the Inquisition, which was set up in Goa, India, in 1560, to check
the 'Jewish wickedness' (Sabbath-keeping)." Adeney, "The
Greek and Eastern Churches," p.527, 528
England
"In the reign of Elizabeth, it occurred to many conscientious and independent
thinkers (as it previously had done to some Protestants in Bohemia) that the
fourth commandment required of them the observance, not of the first, but of
the specified 'seventh' day of the week." Chambers' Cyclopaedia, article "Sabbath," Vol.
8, p. 462, 1537
Sweden
"This zeal for Saturday-keeping continued for a long time: even little things
which might strengthen the practice of keeping Saturday were punished." Bishop
Anjou, "Svenska Kirkans Historia after Motetthiers, Upsala
Lichenstein Family
(estates in Austria, Bohemia, Morovia, Hungary. Lichenstein in the Rhine
Valley wasn't their country until the end of the 7th century). "The
Sabbatarians teach that the outward Sabbath, i.e. Saturday, still must
be observed, They say that Sunday is the Pope's invention." Refutation
of Sabbath, by Wolfgang Capito, published 1599
Bohemia (the Bohemian Brethren)
Dr. R. Cox says: "I find from a passage in Erasmus that at the early
period of the Reformantion when he wrote, there were Sabbatarians in Bohemia,
who not only kept the seventh day, but were said to be...scrupulous in
resting on it." Literature of the Sabbath Question, Cox, Vol. II,
pp. 201, 202
Historian's List Of Churches (16th Century)
"Sabbatarians, so called because they reject the observance of the Lord's
day as not commanded in Scripture, they consider the Sabbath alone to be holy,
as God rested on that day and commanded to keep it holy and to rest on it." A.
Ross
Gremany
-Dr. Eck (while refuting the Reformers) "However, the church
has transferred the observance from Saturday to Sunday by virtue
of her own power, without Scripture." Dr. Eck's "Enchiridion,"
1533, pp.78,79
Princes Of Lichtenstein (Europe)
About the year 1520 many of these Sabbath-keepers found shelter
on the estate of Lord Leonhardt of Lichtensein held to the observance
of the true Sabbath." J.N.Andrews, History of the Sabbath,
p. 649, ed.
India
"The famous Jesuit, Francis Xavier, called for the Inquisition, which was
set up in Goa, India, in 1560, to check the 'Jewish wickedness' (Sabbath-keeping)." Adeney, "The
Greek and Eastern Churches," p.527, 528
Norway - 1544
"Some of you, contrary to the warning, keep Saturday. You ought to be severely
punished. Whoever shall be found keeping Saturday, must pay a fine of ten marks." History
of King Christian the Third," Niels Krag and S. Stephanius
Austria
"Sabatarians now exist in Austria." Luther, "Lectures on Genesis," A.D.1523-27
Abyssinia - A.D. 1534
(Abyssinian legate at court of Lisbon) "It is not therefore, in imitation
of the Jews, but in obedience to Christ and His holy apostles, that we
observe the day." Gedde's "Church History of Ethiopia," pp.
87,8
Dr. Martin Luther
"God blessed the Sabbath and sanctified it to Himself. God willed that this
command concerning the Sabbath should remain. He willed that on the seventh day
the word should be preached." Commentary on Genesis, Vol.1, pp.138-140
Baptists
"Some have suffered torture because they would not rest when others kept
Sunday, for they declared it to be the holiday and law of Antichrist." Sebastian
Frank (A.D. 1536)
Finland - Dec. 6,1554
(King Gustavus Vasa I, of Sweden's letter to the people of Finland) "Some
time ago we heard that some people in Finland had fallen into a great
error and observed the seventh day, called Saturday." State Library
at Helsingfors, Reichsregister, Vom J., 1554, Teil B.B. leaf 1120, pp.175-180a
Switzerland
"The observance of the Sabbath is a part of the moral law. It has been kept
holy since the beginning of the world." Ref. Noted Swiss writer, R Hospinian,
1592
Holland And Germany
Barbara of Thiers, who was executed in 1529, declared: "God has commanded
us to rest on the seventh day." Another martyr, Christina Tolingerin,
is mentioned thus: "Concerning holy days and Sundays, she said: 'In
six days the Lord made the world, on the seventh day he rested. The other
holy days have been instituted by popes, cardinals, and archbishops.'" Martyrology
of the Churches of Christ, commonly called Baptists, during the era of
the Reformation, from the Dutch of T.J. Van Bright, London, 1850,1, pp.113-4.
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