Reformers knew very well the
Sabbath view of Adventists or the Bible
In 1562 the Calvinist Zacharias
Ursinus came to Heidelberg, got his doctorate and taught there. He wrote a
commentary on the Heidelberg Catchecism of Calvin which Calvin wrote in 1534ff.
What is of interest to us
Adventists is Ursinus’ insistence that the Law is still binding on Christians
for obedience (page 496). He mentioned the modern Adventist view in 1562
already about the reason why Christians should keep the Sabbath. On page 565
Ursinus wrote the objection against Sunday keeping and seventh day Sabbath
argument as follows:
“Obj. 6. If the cause of
any law be perpetual, the law itself must be perpetual. The remembrance and
celebration of the creation of all things, together with meditation upon the
works of God, is a perpetual cause, call ing for the observance of the seventh
day as the sabbath. Therefore the law respecting the observence of the seventh
day as the sabbath is unchangeable, even after the coming of Christ”.
However he felt that the
difference between Jews and Christians on the Sabbath is that Jews could not
change the Sabbath but Christians had the liberty to do so. Well….
Source: https://ia802302.us.archive.org/30/items/commentaryofzach00ursiuoft/commentaryofzach00ursiuoft.pdf