History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

there is no evidence that any of these persons
turned from the truth because of the fall of their
leader. Indeed, if there had not been a considerable
body of these Sabbatarians, the papal legate would
never have deemed it worthy of his dignity to write
a reply to Nicetas.
The Anabaptists are often referred to in the
records of the Dark Ages. The term signifies
rebaptizers, and was applied to them because they
denied the validity of infant baptism. The
designation is not accurate, however, because those
persons whom they baptized, they considered as
never having been baptized before, although they
had been sprinkled or even immersed in infancy.
This people have been overwhelmed in obloquy in
consequence of the fanatical insurrection which
broke out in their name in the time of Luther. Of
those engaged in this insurrection, Buck says:--
"The first insurgents groaned under severe
oppressions, and took up arms in defense of their
civil liberties; and of these commotions the
Anabaptists seem rather to have availed
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