The Seventh-day Men Sabbatarians and Sabbatarianism in England and Wales, 1600-1800

by Ball, Bryan W.

• ISBN13: 9780198267522
• ISBN10: 0198267525
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-11-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"Seventh-Day Men" was the seventeenth-century name given to an emerging and important body of Christians who believed in the strict observance of Saturday, rather than Sunday, as the Sabbath. This is the first-ever fully documented study of these people, who in their heyday were at the center of debate and controversy among the leading writers of the age. This study provides clear evidence that this sabbatarian body of Christians was far more extensive than has so far been recognized, and establishes its considerable significance within the history of the church in the period.

Author Biography

Dr Bryan Ball is President of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Table of Contents

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Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Precedents and Antecedents	p. 20
John Traske and Theophilus Brabourne	p. 46
The Mill Yard Church	p. 77
The London Calvinistic Sabbatarian Churches	p. 102
The South and South-West	p. 132
The Chilterns and the Thames Valley	p. 164
The Cotswolds and the Severn Valley	p. 193
South Wales and the Borders	p. 223
East Anglia	p. 245
The Northern Counties	p. 285
Conclusion	p. 310
App. I Ireland	p. 330
App. II Notes on Supposed Sabbatarian Congregations, 1650-1750	p. 334
App. III The More-Chamberlen Church Reconsidered	p. 338
App. IV An Annotated Chronological Bibliography of Seventh-day Literature to 1750	p. 342
App. V Distribution of the Sabbatarian Movement to 1800 by Counties	p. 351
Bibliography	p. 357
Index of Places	p. 381
Index of Persons	p. 387
General Index	p. 397
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