JOSEPHUS.
“There is not any city of the Grecians, nor any of the barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever, whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come!” Quoted in M’Clatchle. Notes and Queries on China and Japan (edited by Dennys), vol. 4, Nos. 7, 8, p. 100.
FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS.
“Then the spiritual seed of Abraham fled to Pella [from Jerusalem in obedience to the Lord’s command, Matthew 24:15-18], on the other side of Jordan, where they found a safe place of refuge, and could serve their Master and keep His Sabbath.” Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, book 3 chap. 5.
PHILO.
Declares the seventh day to be a festival, not of this or of that city, but of the universe. Source: M’Clatchie: op. cit., vol. 4 p. 99.
SECOND CENTURY
EARLY CHRISTIANS
“The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the Apostles themselves, as appears by several scriptures to that purpose.”
Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 189. London 1761, by Dr. T. H. Morer (a Church of England divine).
EARLY CHRISTIANS.
“The primitive Christians did keep the Sabbath of the Jews; …therefore the Christians, for a long time together, did keep their conventions upon the Sabbath in which some portions of the law were read: and this-continued till the time of the Laodicean council.” R. Heber, ed.: The Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor, vol. IX, p. 416 vol. XII, p. 416.
2nd CENTURY CHRISTIANS.
“The Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath.” Gieseler: Church History, vol. 1, chap. 2, par. 30, p. 83.
EARLY CHURCH.
“It is certain that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed (together with the celebration of the Lord’s Day by the Christians of the East Church, above three hundred years after our Saviour’s death.”
A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath, p. 77.