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men followed the first, and were baptized 
in like manner. After them, the women 
were baptized. A female friend took off 
at the water side the hat and cloak. A 
deacon of the church led one to the admi- 
nistrator, and another from him ; and a 
woman at the water side took each as she 
came out of the river, and conducted her 
to the apartment in the house, where they 
dressed themselves, When all were bap- 
tised, the administrator coming up out of 
the river, and standing at the side, gave a 
short exhortation on the honour and the 
pleasure of obedience to divine commands, 
and then with the usual benediction dis- 
missed the assembly. About half an hour 
after, the men newly baptised having dressed 
themselves, went from their room into a 
large hall in the house, where they were 
presently joined by the women, who came 
from their apartments to the same place. 
Then they sent a messenger to the adminis- 
trator, who was dressing in his apartment, 
to inform him they waited for him. He 
presently came, and first prayed for a few 
minutes, and then closed the whole by a 
short discourse on the blessings of civil and 
religious liberty, the sufficiency of scrip- 
ture, the pleasures of a good conscience, 
the importance of a holy life, and the pros- 
pect of a blessed immortality. This they 
call a public baptism.” 
The Baptists in England form one of the 
three denominations of Protestant dissen- 
ters, and are divided into Particular and 
General, the former are Calvinistical and 
Trinitarians ; the latter are Arminians, and 
some very few Arians, hut the greater part 
are Unitarians with regard to the person 
of Christ, considering him as man, the son 
of Joseph and Mary. 
BAR, in courts of justice, an inclosure 
made with a strong partition of timber, 
where the council are placed to plead 
causes. It is also applied to the benches, 
w'here the lawyers or advocates are seated, 
because anciently there was a bar to sepa- 
rate the pleaders from the attornies and 
others. Hence our lawyers, who are called 
to the bar, or licensed to plead, are termed 
barristers, an appellation equivalent to li- 
centiate in other countries. 
Bar, in law, a plea of a defendant, which 
is said to be sufficient to destroy the plain- 
tiffs action. It is divided into bar special, 
bar to common intendment, bar temporal, 
and bar perpetual. Bar special, falls out 
upon some special circumstances of the case 
in question, as where an executor being 
BAR 
sued for his testator’s debt, pleads that he 
had no goods in his hands at the day on 
which the writ was sued out. Bar to com- 
mon intendment, is a general bar, which 
commonly disables the plaintiffs declara- 
tion. Bar temporary is such as is good for 
the present, but may afterwards fail; and 
bar perpetual is that which overthrows the 
plaintiff’s action for ever. In personal ac- 
tions, once barred, and ever so, is the gene- 
ral rule, but it is intended, where a bar is to 
the right of the cause, not where a wrong 
action is brought. In criminal cases, there 
are especially four pleas in bar, which 
go to the merits of the indictment, and give 
reason why the prisoner ought not to an- 
swer it, nor be tried upon it, as a former 
acquittal, a former conviction, although no 
judgment were given, a former attainder 
and a pardon. 
Bar, in heraldry, an ordinary in form of 
the fesse, but much less. 
It differs from the fesse only in its nar- 
rowness, and in this, that the bar may be 
placed in any part of the field, whereas the 
fesse is confined to a single place. 
Bar, in music, a stroke drawn perpendi- 
cularly across the lines of a piece of music, 
including between each two a certain quan- 
tity or measure of time, which is various as 
the time of the music is either triple or com- 
mon. In common time, between each two 
bars is included the measure of four crot- 
chets ; in triple, three. The principal use 
of bars is to regulate the beating of time 
in a concert. 
Bar, double, consists of tw r o parallel 
straight lines, somewhat broader than a 
common bar, drawn near each other, and 
passing perpendicularly through the stave. 
The double bar divides the different strains 
of a movement. If two or more dots are 
placed on one of its sides, they imply that 
the strain of the movement or the same side 
with the dots is to be performed twice, and 
if the dots are placed on each side of the 
double bar, the repetition extends to the 
strains on each side of the double bar. 
Bar, in hydrography, denotes a bank of 
sand, or other matter, whereby the mouth 
of a river is in a manner choked up. 
The term bar is also used for a strong 
beam, wherewith the entrance of an har- 
bour is secured : this is more commonly 
called boom. 
B4> RALIPTON, among logicians, a term 
denoting the first indirect mode of the first 
figure of syllogism. A syllogism in baralip- 
ton, is when the two first propositions are 
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