^Carlisle, Rodney P. (17 March 2005). Encyclopedia of Politics (dalam bahasa Inggris). SAGE. hlm. 853. ISBN9781412904094. Sabbatarianism is the view that insists that one day of each week must be reserved for religious observance as prescribed by the Old Testament Sabbath Law. The sabbatarians' main thesis is simple: The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, and the Ten Commandments do not correspond to a temporary ceremonial law but are to be regarded as eternally significant moral law.
^Heyck, Thomas (27 September 2013). A History of the Peoples of the British Isles: From 1688 to 1914 (dalam bahasa Inggris). Taylor & Francis. hlm. 251. ISBN9781134415205. Yet the degree of overlap between the middle class and nonconformity-Baptists, Congregregationalists, Wesleyan Methodists, Quakers, Presbyterians, and Unitarians-was substantial. ... Most nonconformist denominations ...frowned on drink, dancing, and the theater, and they promoted Sabbatarianism (the policy of prohibiting trade and public recreation on Sundays).
^Vugt, William E. Van (2006). British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900 (dalam bahasa Inggris). Kent State University Press. hlm. 55. ISBN9780873388436. As predominantly Methodists and other nonconformists, British immigrants were pietists, committed to conversion and the reform of society. They did not separate religion from civil government, bur rather integrated right belief with right behavior. Therefore they embraced reform movements, most notably temperance and abolitionism, as well as Sabbatarian laws.
^O'Brien, Glen; Carey, Hilary M. (3 March 2016). Methodism in Australia: A History (dalam bahasa Inggris). Routledge. hlm. 83. ISBN9781317097099. Sabbatarianism: For the non-Anglican Protestants of colonial Queensland (Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists), desecration of the Sabbath was one of the great sins of the late nineteenth century.
