1:37, 38.]

"Even most prominent men, as the princes of Lichtenstein, held
to the observance of the true Sabbath. When persecution finally
scattered them, the seeds of truth must have been sown by them
in the different portions of the Continent which they
visited.... We have found them [Sabbath keepers] in Bohemia.
They were also known in Silesia and Poland. Likewise they were
in Holland and northern Germany.... There were at this time
Sabbath keepers in France,... 'among whom were M. de la Roque,
who wrote in defense of the Sabbath against Bossuet, Catholic
bishop of Meaux.' That Sabbatarians again appeared in England
by the time of the Reformation, during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth (A.D. 1533-1603), Dr. Chambers testifies in
his Cyclopedia [art. 'Sabbath']."--_Andrews and Conradi,
"History of the Sabbath," pp. 649, 650._

In this century also, Sabbath keepers appeared in Norway, Sweden, and
Finland. In 1554 King Gustavus Vasa, of Sweden, addressed a letter of
remonstrance "to the common people in Finland," because so many were
turning to keep the seventh day.

Seventeenth Century

There was much discussion in England over the authority for Sunday
observance. When other church festivals were ignored, as Easter, King
Charles I wanted to know why Sunday should be kept. He wrote:

"It will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is discharged
to be kept, or turned into the Sunday; wherefore it must be the
church's authority that changed the one and instituted the
other; therefore my opinion is that those who will not keep
this feast [Easter] may as well return to the observation of
Saturday, and refuse the weekly Sunday."--_Cox, "Sabbath Laws,"
p. 333._

It was during this time that the idea first obtained of enforcing Sunday
obligation by the fourth commandment and calling it the Sabbath. It was
argued that any "one day in seven" was what the commandment meant. Of
this argument, John Milton, the statesman-poet, wrote:

"It is impossible to extort such a sense from the words of the
commandment; seeing that the reason for which the command
itself was originally given, namely, as a memorial of God's
having rested from the creation of the world, cannot be
transferred from the seventh day to the first; nor can any new
motive be substituted in its place, whether the resurrection o