The Sabbath in Post-Reformation England

by Bryan W. Ball

Publisher:

Biblical Research Institute

, 2020

Overview

In 1657, the English Parliament, in response to mounting pressure from Sabbath-keeping leaders in London and supporting publications, appointed a committee to investigate observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. It appears either the committee never reported or, if it did, its report was never made public.

A number of questions arise from this quite remarkable situation that had developed in mid-seventeenth-century England.

In order to answer these and related questions, this book will examine the following aspects of English Sabbath-keeping history, with special focus on the movement that appeared afer the English Reformation, the historical context in which English Sabbatarianism developed, earlier English Sabbath-keepers, the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sabbath-keeping movement, its theological and biblical basis, and the change from Saturday to Sunday as explained in Sabbatarian literature.

Key Features

• Examines several aspects of English Sabbath-keeping history
• Focuses on the movement that appeared after the English Reformation
• Answers questions that arised from a remarkable situation developed in mid-seventeenth-century England

Contents

• A Brief Survey of the Historical Background
• The Post-Reformation English Sabbath-Keeping Movement
• A Theology of the Sabbath
• The Substitution of Sunday for the Biblical Sabbath

Product Details

• Title: The Sabbath in Post-Reformation England
• Author: Bryan W. Ball
• Publisher: Biblical Research Institute
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 23
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Sabbath › History of Doctrines--17th Century; Sabbath History of Doctrines › 18th Century; Sabbatarians Great Britain › 17th Century; Sabbatarians › Great Britain 18th Century
• ISBNs: 9780925675415, 0925675415
• Resource ID: LLS:SBBTHPSTRFNGLND
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:51:50Z