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The Abyssinian Christians, another numerous body, are represented as being similar in some respects to the Papists; and _Purchase_ speaks of them as
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and as observing the Saturday Sabbath. They are also mentioned by _Brerewood_. _Mosheim_ mentions a sect of Christians in the twelfth century, in Lombardy, called _Pasaginians_, charged with circumcising their followers, and keeping the Jewish Sabbath. _Mr. Benedict_ considers the account of their practicing the bloody rite a slander charged on them on account of their keeping the Jewish Sabbath. _Binius_ says that in 1555 there were Christians in Rome who kept the Sabbath, and were therefore called _Sabbatarii_, and they are represented as differing in other respects from the Romanists. Many of the Armenian Christians are believed to observe the ancient Sabbath. _Dr. Buchanan_, in his Researches, when speaking of those of them who are settled in the East Indies, says,
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Their doctrines are, as far as the author knows, the doctrines of the Bible. Besides this, they maintain the solemn observation of Christian worship throughout our empire on the seventh day.
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They were called _Sabbati_ and _Sabbatati_, so named from the Hebrew word _Sabbath_, because they kept the _Saturday_ for the Lord's day. They were also called _Insabbatati_, because they rejected all the festivals, or Sabbaths, in the low Latin sense of the word. The account the Papists gave of their sentiments in 1250, was briefly this: That they declared themselves to be the apostolic successors, and to have apostolic authority; that they held the church of Rome to be the 'whore of Babylon;' that none of the ordinances of the church which have been introduced since Christ's ascension ought to be observed; that baptism is of no advantage to infants, because they cannot actually believe. They reject the sacrament of confirmation, but instead of that their teachers lay their hands upon their disciples. _Jones_, in his Church History, says that because they would not observe _saints' days_, they were falsely supposed to neglect the Sabbath also. Another of their enemies, an Inquisitor of Rome, charged them with despising all the feasts of Christ and his saints. Another, a Commissioner of Charles XII. of France, reported to him,