14th Century Sabbath Observance
WALDENSES
"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." Luther's Fore-runners," p. 38
INSABBATI
"For centuries evangelical bodies, especially the Waldenses, were called Insabbati because
of Sabbath-keeping." Gui, Manueld' Inquisiteur
BOHEMIA, 1310 (Modern Czechoslovakia)
"In 1310, two hundred years before Luther's theses, the Bohemian brethern constituted onefourth
of the population of Bohemia, and that they were in touch with the Waldenses who abounded in
Austria, Lombardy,. Bohemia, north Germany, Thuringia, Brandenburg, and Moravia. Erasmus pointed
out how strictly Bohemian Waldenses kept the seventh day Sabbath." Armitage, "A History of
the Baptists," p.313; Cox, "The Literature of the Sabbath Question," vol. 2, pp. 201-202
NORWAY
Then, too, in the "Catechism" that was used during the fourteenth century, the Sabbath commandment
read thus; "Thou shalt not forget to keep the seventh day." This is quoted from "Documents
and Studies Concerning the History of the Lutheran Catechism in the Nordish Churches," p.89.
Christiania 1893
NORWAY
"Also the priests have caused the people to keep Saturdays as Sundays." Theological Periodicals
for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Norway, Vol.1, p.184 Oslo
ENGLAND, HOLLAND, BOHEMIA
"We wrote of the Sabbatarians in Bohemia, Transylvania, England and Holland between 1250 and
1600 A.D." Truth Triumphant, Wilkinson, p.309 |
