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Seventh-Day Baptists

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Seventh-Day Baptists, Protestant church holding the same doctrines as other Calvinistic Baptists but observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. In the Reformation in England the observance was adopted by many, and in the 17th cent. there were Seventh-Day Baptists among the followers of Oliver Cromwell. In America the first Seventh-Day Baptist church in the country was organized (1671) in Rhode Island. Another group, the German Seventh-Day Baptists, under the leadership of Johann Conrad Beissel Beissel, Johann Conrad (yō`hän kôn`rät bī`səl)
..... Click the link for more information. , established (c.1728–1733) at Ephrata, Pa., a semimonastic religious society, famous in colonial times. Among their industries was a noted print shop. Their teaching and practice are closely related to the Brethren Brethren, German Baptist religious group. They were popularly known as Dunkards, Dunkers, or Tunkers, from the German for "to dip," referring to their method of baptizing. The Brethren evolved from the Pietist movement in Germany.
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For more information on the history of the Seventh-Day Baptists, see C.
The influence of Calvinism on colonial Baptists: an ongoing argument ... by Williams, Michael E., Sr. / Baptist History and Heritage
Most Christians say Sunday, but Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh-day Baptists and others say Saturday.
Memo To Congress: You're On Capitol Hill, Not Mt. Sinai by Lynn, Barry W. / Church & State
Another group, the Seventh-Day Baptists, was on the whole Calvinist in theology.
The influence of Calvinism on seventeenth-century English Baptists: ... by Briggs, John / Baptist History and Heritage
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