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Which Day Do You Keep The Sabbath and Why?
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THE ONCE ‘DOUBTING THOMAS’ BRINGS THE SABBATH TO CHINA AND INDIA
“We shall now briefly trace the apostolic Christian Sabbath-keepers from Antioch in Syria to their farthest Christian stations in old China. Thomas Yeates in his ‘Indian Church History,’ (London: 1818), has collected from several sources statements that all agree on the points he presents, that the apostle Thomas travelled through Persia into INDIA, where he raised up many churches. ‘From thence he went to CHINA, and preached in the city of Cambala, [which is] supposed to be the same as Pekin[g], and there he built a church.’- ‘Indian Church History,’ p. 73.
“In the year 1625, there was found in a town near Si-Nguni-fu, the metropolis of the province of Shin-si, a stone having a figure of a cross, and an inscription in two languages…..Chinese and Syriac….as follows:
‘This stone was erected to the honor and eternal memory of the law of light and truth brought from Ta-Cin, and promulgated in China.’ [The inscription consists of 736 words, giving] a summary of the fundamental articles of the Christian faith.’- Ibid, pp. 86-88. That the missionaries who brought the truth to China were Sabbath-keepers can be seen by the following extract from the inscription:
‘On the seventh day we offer sacrifice, after having purified our hearts, and received absolution for our sins. This religion, so perfect and so excellent, is difficult to name, but it enlightens darkness by its brilliant precepts.’ – ‘Christianity in China,’ M. L Abbe Huc, Vol. I, ch. 2, pp. 48, 49, seq. NY: 1873.
“Returning to India we shall find traces of the Sabbath among those churches also. And they had retained the Bible in the ancient language used by the church in Antioch, where the name ‘Christian’ originated. (Acts 11:26).
“It was in these sequestered regions that copies of the Syriac Scriptures found a safe asylum from the SEARCH AND DESTRUCTION OF THE ROMISH INQUISITION, and were found with all the works of ancient [apostolic] purity.’ – Ibid, T. Yeates, p. 167.
‘Whatever may be the future use and importance of those manuscripts, one thing is certain, and that is, they establish the fact that the Syrian Christians of India have the pure unadulterated Scriptures in the language of the ancient church of Antioch, derived from the very times of the Apostles.’ – Ibid, p. 169.” – Facts of Faith, pp. 153, 154.
So what happened to these early Sabbath-keeping churches planted by apostle Thomas, one of the first Twelve?
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF
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ROME’S HATRED IS NOT AGAINST SIN BUT AGAINST THE SABBATH AND SABBATH-KEEPERS, AS THE WALDENSES WERE
“We have seen that the ancient apostolic church, scattered by persecution, and often in hiding, went under various names. Being peaceful, virtuous, industrious citizens, they were TOLERATED and even SHIELDED, by princes who understood their value to the country, while the Catholic Church HUNTED them down like wild beasts. After the Waldenses and Albigenses had lived quietly in France for many years, POPE INNOCENT III wrote the following instructions to his bishops:
‘Therefore by this present apostolical writing [?] we give you a STRICT COMMAND that, by WHATEVER means you can, you DESTROY all these heresies and EXPEL from your diocese all who are polluted with them. You shall exercise the RIGOR OE ECCLESIASTICAL POWER against them and all those who have made themselves suspected by ASSOCIATING with them. They may NOT appeal to your judgment, and if necessary, you may cause the princes [civil powers] and the people to SUPPRESS THEM WITH THE SWORD.’ – ‘A Source Book for Medieval History,’ Oliver J. Thatcher and E. H. McNeal, p. 210. NY Charles’ Scribner’s Sons: 1905.
“Philippus van Lindorch, Professor of Divinity of Amsterdam, speaking of the way the LIBERTY of the people was suppressed after 1050, says:
‘In the following ages the affairs of the church [of Rome] under the government of the Popes [the papacy] and all persons so strictly curbed by the SEVERITY of the laws, that they durst [dared] not even so much as WHISPER against the received opinions of the church. Besides this, so deep was the IGNORANCE that had spread itself over the WORLD, that men, without the least regard to KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING, received with a BLIND obedience everything that the ecclesiastics ordered them, HOWEVER STUPID OR SUPERSTITIOUS, WITHOUT ANY EXAMINATION; and anyone dared to the least to contradict them, he was sure immediately to be punished, whereby the most ABSURD opinions came to be established by the VIOLENCE OF THE POPES.’ – ‘History of the Inquisition.’p.79. London 1816.” – ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, pp. 126, 127.
“There is nothing new under the sun. What has been that shall be.” Learn from history and be prepared for the future. Bless all, NMF
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THE WALDENSES, THEIR ‘SABBATIC’ NAMES, AND THE PAPACY
David Benedict, M.A., says:
‘Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of the Alps, who were called SABATI, SABBATATI, INSABBATATI, but more frequently INSABBATATI. One says they were so named from the Hebrew 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 of the Baptist Denomination,’ Vol. II, p. 413: 1813.
Dr. J.L. Mosheim says: ‘PASSAGINIANS (Waldenses) had the utmost AVERSION to the dominion and discipline of the Church of Rome ….and celebrated the Jewish Sabbath.’ – ‘Ecclesiastical History.’ (2-vol. edition), Cen. 2, Part 2, Chap. 5, Sec. 14, Vol. 1, p. 333. New York: Harper & Bros., 1871.
“The papal author Bonacursus, wrote against the ‘PASAGINI’[ Waldenses/Albigenses] ‘Not a few but many know what are the ERRORS of those who are called Pasagini [what errors?]. First, they teach that we should obey the law of Moses according for the letter—-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, and whole Roman Church.’ – Quoted in ‘History of the Sabbath,’ J. N. Andrews, pp. 547, 548. 1912
It must be pointed out here that papal author Bonocorsus clearly calls his church as the Church OF ROME, not the church OF CHRIST. In his own mouth and by his scholarly pen he testifies, whether he was aware or not, that the Church of Rome or the Romish church, the Roman Catholic Church, is, and of Rome, not is and of Christ! It was Rome, at the behest of the Jewish people, in essence the union of church and state, the religious and the civil powers, who crucified the Lord of the Sabbath! God bless, NMF
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