Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ne valleys, that were pursued and persecuted by Rome,were at least some who saw and obeyed the Sabbath truth.Thus, of one of these bodies, the historian Goldastus says: They were called Insabbatati, not because they were circumcised,but because they kept the Sabbath according to the Jewish law.—Deutsche Biographic, Vol. IX, art. Goldast., p. 327. Fifteenth Century Sabbath keepers in Norway drew the condemnation of achurch council held in 1435: The archbishop and the clergy assembled in this provincial councilat Bergen do decide that the keeping of Saturday must never be permittedto exist, except as granted in the church law.—Keysets Norske KirkesHistorie, Vol. II, p. ^88. Sixteenth Century With the setting free of the Word of God by the Reforma-tion, and the protest against the doctrine of papal tradition,multitudes saw that the Sunday institution was not of divineorigin; while not a few went farther, recognizing the claimsof Gods Sabbath. Moravia was a refuge, in those early Ref-
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Sabbath Keeping after New Testament Times 177 ormation days, for many believers in the Reformed doctrines,and among these were Sabbath-keeping Christians: Even most prominent men, as the princes of Lichtenstein, held tothe observance of the true Sabbath. When persecution fmally scatteredthem, the seeds of truth must have been sown by them in the differentportions of the Continent which they visited. . . . We have found them(Sabbath keepers) in Bohemia. They were also known in Silesia andPoland. Likewise they were in Holland and northern Germany. . . .There were at this time Sabbath keepers in France, . . . among whomwere M. de la Roque, who wrote in defense of the Sabbath against Bos-suet, CathoHc bishop of Meaux. That Sabbatarians again appeared inEngland by the time of the Reformation, during the reign of Queen Eliza-beth (a. d. 1533-1603), Dr. Chambers testifies in his Cyclopedia (art.Sabbath).—Andrews and Conradi, Histonj of the Sabbath pp. 649, 650. In this centm-y also, Sabbat

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