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72101 Facts of Faith, p. 117.1 (Christian Edwardson)
The true Christians paid very little attention to the anathema of the bishops, for they continued to keep the true Sabbath, as the following quotations show:
72102 Facts of Faith
… Jews’ Sabbath continued, as may be proved out of many authors; yea, notwithstanding the decree of the council against it.” — “Sunday a Sabbath,” John Ley, p. 163. London …
72103 Facts of Faith, p. 117.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath was kept, “notwithstanding the decree of the council against it,” is also seen from the fact that Pope Gregory I (A. D. 590-604) wrote against “Roman citizens …
72104 Facts of Faith, p. 117.3 (Christian Edwardson)
As late as 791 A. D. Christians kept the Sabbath in Italy. Canon 13 of the council at Friaul states:
72105 Facts of Faith, p. 117.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… that Sabbath which the Jews observe, the last day of the week, and which also our peasants observe, He said only Sabbath, and never added unto it, ‘delight,’ or ‘my …
72106 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath,” Andrews, pp. 539, 540. 1912.
72107 Facts of Faith, p. 118.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… hundred Sabbath-keeping Christian churches were established in southern India, and some were found even in China. Likewise, the original Celtic Church …
72108 Facts of Faith, p. 121.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… -day Sabbath, and used the apostolic mode of baptism. (See “Ancient Churches of Piedmont,” by P. Allix, pp. 152-260) Their old catechism shows that they believed in …
72109 Facts of Faith, p. 122.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath, circumcision, and other legal observances, ought to take place.’ ” — “Ancient Churches of Piedmont.” p. 169 (page 154, edition of 1690). Oxford: 1821.
72110 Facts of Faith, p. 122.4 (Christian Edwardson)
That this was exactly the way this slander was fastened on Sabbath keepers, we can see from the “Epistle” written against them by Pope Gregory 1 (A. D. 590-604), in which he says:
72111 Facts of Faith, p. 122.5 (Christian Edwardson)
“It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day....
72112 Facts of Faith, p. 123.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath is to be kept, he must needs say that carnal sacrifices are to be offered: he must say, too, that the commandment about the circumcision of the body …
72113 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath day, observed the ordinance of baptism, according to the primitive church, instructed their children in the articles of the Christian faith …
72114 Facts of Faith, p. 124.5 (Christian Edwardson)
“And because they observed no other day of rest but the Sabbath days, they called them Insabathas, as much as to say, as they observed no Sabbath.
72115 Facts of Faith, p. 124.9 (Christian Edwardson)
“That we are to worship one only God, who is able to help us, and not the Saints departed, — that we ought to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that there was no necessity of observing other feasts’ — Id., p. 88.
72116 Facts of Faith, p. 124.11 (Christian Edwardson)
… Jewish Sabbath.” “Circumcisi forsan illifuerint, qui aliis Insabbatati, non quod circumciderentur, inquit Calvinista [Goldastus] sed quod in Sabbato judaizarent …
72117 Facts of Faith
… word Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord’s day. Another says they were so called because they rejected all the festivals.” — “General History …
72118 Facts of Faith
… Jewish Sabbath.” — “Ecclesiastical History” (two-volume edition), Cent. 12, Part 2, Chap. 5, Sec. 14, Vol. I, p. 333. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1871.
72119 Facts of Faith, p. 125.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… - the Sabbath, and circumcision, and the legal precepts still being in force.... Furthermore, to increase their error, they condemn and reject all the church Fathers …
72120 Facts of Faith, p. 125.5 (Christian Edwardson)
The Roman Catholic Church has always had a special enmity toward the Bible Sabbath and Sabbath-keepers. Mr. Benedict says: