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Seventh Day Baptists are Christian
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 Baptist
Baptist

A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
s who continue to observe the Sabbath on Saturday, which is the original seventh day of the week for the founding Judaeo-Christian faith. The Seventh Day Baptist World Federation today represents over 50,000 Baptists in 22 countries.

first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard Church in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in 1653 under the leadership of Dr. Peter Chamberlen.






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Seventh Day Baptists are Christian
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 Baptist
Baptist

A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
s who continue to observe the Sabbath on Saturday, which is the original seventh day of the week for the founding Judaeo-Christian faith. The Seventh Day Baptist World Federation today represents over 50,000 Baptists in 22 countries.

History

The first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard Church in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in 1653 under the leadership of Dr. Peter Chamberlen. However many Seventh Day Baptists believe that records showing that it had originated in 1617 were lost in a fire.

The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America was at Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles south of Providence, Rhode Island....
 in December 1671. Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke (1609-1676)
John Clarke (1609-1676)

John Clarke was a medical doctor, Baptist Religious minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and author of its charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas....
, withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists. Mumford, for his part, arrived in Rhode Island
Rhode Island

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
 in 1665, and was mentioned as an advocate for the seventh day Sabbath in many records of that time. Other churches rose in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
 and New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
, and soon spread north into Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, and south into Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
 and the Carolinas. Sabbatarianism also emerged among the Germans at Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Ephrata is a Borough in Ephrata Township, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, south east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and about west by north of Philadelphia....
, (founded in 1735). Ephrata was incorporated as the German Religious Society of Seventh Day Baptists in 1814. The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference was organized in 1801.

In 1995, the Seventh Day Baptists had 78 churches with 4885 members in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, 2 churches with 55 members in England
England

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, and 1 church of 40 members in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. Conferences and associations exist in many other countries including Australia, Brazil, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, New Zealand and amongst the Seventh Day Christians of Poland. Some conferences have sent missionaries to other nations including Malawi, Fiji and Argentina. The Seventh Day Baptist World Federation was founded in 1964–1965, and it now represents over 50,000 Baptists in 17 member organizations in 22 countries.

Other than the belief that the Christian Sabbath is Saturday rather than Sunday, Seventh Day Baptists are very similar to other Baptists. However, due to the Baptist tradition of freedom of conscience, even within Baptists, there are a lot of variations in doctrines. The same principle applies to Seventh Day Baptists. The Seventh Day Baptists do not hold a binding creed, and the belief system is relatively more flexible than mainstream Christianity, and the teachings Seventh Day Baptists hold may also vary from member to member.

Offices of the General Conference are maintained in Janesville, Wisconsin
Janesville, Wisconsin

Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat of Rock County, Wisconsin and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area....
. The Missionary Society offices are in Westerly, Rhode Island, and the Board of Christian Education has offices in Alfred Station, New York. The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference is a member of the Baptist World Alliance
Baptist World Alliance

The Baptist World Alliance is a worldwide alliance of Baptist churches and organizations, formed in 1905 at Exeter Hall in London during the first Baptist World Congress....
.

See also

  • Christian Sabbatarianism


External links

  • (Brazilian Conference of Seventh Day Baptists Churches -in Portuguese)
  • (Seventh Day Baptists in the Netherlands -in Dutch)
  • A Seventh Day Baptist Church planting project in France, associated to the Dutch Churches.


Sources

  • A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists, by Don A. Sanford
  • Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
  • Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, by Albert N. Rogers
  • The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness, by H. Leon McBeth
  • The Development of the Seventh Day Baptist Denomination in Australia, by David Hill