BAR 
Ministers. 
States. Chcrches. ordained, liccnjcd. Members. 
New jerfey 
26 
20 
9 
2279 
Pennfylvania 
28 
26 
7 - 
1231 
Delaware 
7 
9 
X 
409 
Maryland 
1 2 
8 
3 
776 
Virginia 
207 
157 
109 
20137 
Kentucky 
42 
40 
2 1 . 
3 I0 5 
Welterh Terri tor 
y 1 
.— 
— 
30 
North Carolina 
s+ 
8 1 
76 
77 +- 
DecededTerritory 18 
15 
6 
889 
South Carolina 
68 
4 S 
2 S . 
4c 12 
Georgia 
4 2 
38 
9 
3184 
Total 
868 
710 
422 
< 5+97 8 
To this account, it is prefumed, about 2500 members, 
and forty-five churches, ought to be added.; making the 
whole number of their churches in America about 910, 
and the members about 67,000. But at lead three times 
as many attend their meetings for public worfhip as have 
joined their churches, which, we may luppofe, are jn prin¬ 
ciple Baptifts; thefe will make the whole number ot that 
denomination in United States 201,000, or a twenty-filth 
part of-the inhabitants. The leading, principles of the 
American Baptifts are, The imputation of Adam’s fin to 
his poflerity ; the inability of man to recover himfelf; ef¬ 
fectual calling by fovereign grace ; jollification by the im¬ 
puted righteoufnefs of Chrift ; baptifmby immerlion, and 
that on profeffion of faith and repentance ; congregational 
churches, their independency, and reception into them, 
upon evidence of found converlion. 
To BAPTI'ZE, v.a. [baptifer , hr. from ii&v, Gr. ] 
To chriften ; to adminifter the facrament of baptifm.— 
«*I.et us reflect that we are Chriftians; that we are called 
by the name of the Son of God, and baptized into an ir- 
reconcileable enmity with fin, the world, and the devil. 
Rogers. 
B APTI'ZER,/. One that chriftens; one that adminif- 
ters baptifm. 
BAR,/. [. barre , Fr.] A piece of wood, iron, or other 
matter, laid crofs a paflage to hinder entrance.—And he 
made the middle bar to (hoot through the boards from the 
one end to the other. Exodus. —A bolt; a piece of iron,or 
wood faftened to a door, and entering into the poll or wall, 
to hold the doorclofe.—The filh-gate did the foils of Haf- 
fenaah build, who alfo laid the beams thereof, and fet up 
the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 
Nchcmiak. —Any obfiaclc which hinders or obltructs ; ob- 
firuftion.—I brake up for it my decreed place, and fet bars 
and doors, and faid, Hitherto (halt thou come, and no far¬ 
ther. Job.- —A rock, or bank of fand, at the entrance of 
a harbour or river, which fiiips cannot fail over at low 
water. Any thing tiled for prevention, or exciulion : 
Which Salique land the French unjuftly gloze to be 
The founder of this law, and female bar. Shahefpearc. 
The place where caufes at law are tried, or where crimi- 
;rals are judged; fo called from the bar placed to hinder 
crowds from incommoding the court: 
Some at the bar with fubtlety defend, 
Or on the bench the knotty laws untie. Dryden. 
An inclofed place in a tavern or coffee-houfe, where the 
houfekeeper fits and receives reckonings.—I was under 
fome apprehenlion that they would appeal to me; and 
therefore laid down my penny at the bar , and made the 
belt of my way. Addifon.- —Any thing by which the corn- 
pages or (trudture is held together.—I went down to the 
bottoms of the mountains: the earth, with her bars, was 
about me forever. Jonah. —Any thing which is laid acrofs 
another, as bars in heraldry. 
Bar, in law, is a plea or peremptory exception of a de- 
Tendant, fuflicient to defiroy the plaintiff’s action. In real 
■^•flions, a general releafe, or a fine, maybe pleaded to bar 
the plaintiff’s title. In perfonal aitions, an accord, arbi- 
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tration, conditions performed, non-age of the defendant, 
may be pleaded in bar. So the fiatute of limitation may 
be pleaded in bar, or the time limited by law, beyond 
which no plaintiff can lay his caufe of action. 3 Blackjl. 
306. In criminal cafes, there are elpecially four pleas in 
bar, which go to the merits of the indidtment, and give 
a reafon why the prifoner ought not to anfwer it at all, nor 
put himfelf upon his trial for the crime alleged. And 
thefe are, 1. A former acquittal, grounded on thisuniver- 
lal maxim of the common law, that no man fhall be 
brought into jeopardy "of his life more than'once for the 
fame offence. 2. A former conviction \ though no judg¬ 
ment was given, nor perhaps will be given; and this de¬ 
pends on the fame principle as the former, that no man 
ought to be twice brought in danger of his life for one 
and the fame crime. 3. A former attainder-, for, being 
dead in law by fuch firft attainder, he hath forfeited all he 
had, and it would be fuperfluous to attaint him a lecond 
time. 4. A pardon-, which at once deftroys the end and 
purpofe of the indictment, by remitting that punifliment 
which the profecution is calculated to inflidt. 4 Black. 329. 
Bar, in mufic, a firoke drawn perpendiculary acrofs 
the lines, including between each two a certain quantity or 
meafure of time, which is various as the time of the imi- 
fie is either triple or common. In common time, between 
each two bars is included the meafure of four crotchets; 
in triple, three. The principal life of bars is to regulate 
the beating of time in a concert. The life of bars is not 
to be traced higher than the time when the Englifh trans¬ 
lation of Adrian le Roy’s book on the Tablature was pub- 
lifhed, viz. the year 1574; and it was long after that be¬ 
fore the life of bars became general. Barnard’s cathedral 
mufic, printed in 1641, is without bars; but bars are to 
be found throughout in the Ayres and Dialogues of Hen¬ 
ry Lawes publiflied in 1653 ; from w hence it may be in¬ 
terred that we owe to Lawes this improvement. 
Bar, in African traffic, is ufed for a denomination of 
price; payment being formerly made to the negroes almoft 
wholly in iron bars. 
Bar of Gold or Sii.ver, is a lump or wedge from 
the mines, melted down into a tort o ' mould, and never 
wrought. 
Bars of a Horse, the upper part of the gums between 
the tufks and grinders, which bears no teeth, and to which 
the bit is applied, and, by its friction, the liorfe governed. 
Bar, a town of Arabia, fifty-fix miles S. E. of El Catif. 
Bar, a town of Hindoftan, in the country of Bahar, 011 
the Tonth fide of the Ganges, fifteen miles-north of Bahar, 
and thirty eafi-fouth-ealt of Patna. 
Bar, a very (trong city of Podolia, in Poland, upon the 
river Kioiv. Lat. 50. 6. N. Ion. 28. 30. FI. 
Bar ( Le), a town of France, in the department of the 
Var, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridtof Grade, 
four miles north-eaft of Grade. 
Bar (Duchy), before the revolution, a country of 
France, iituated to the weft of Lorraine, thirty-two leagues 
long, and fixteen wide. The afpedt of the country is va¬ 
rious, and divided into hills and plains : wood, wine, corn, 
game, and fidi, abound. It takes its name from the cadle 
of Bar, and was eredted into a county by the emperor 
Otho; but it is not known at what time it was raifed to a 
duchy. 
Bar-sur-Aube, a town of France, and the principal 
place of a diltrict, in the department of the‘Aube: be¬ 
fore the revolution the feat of a governor. It is twenty- 
five pofts and a half fouth-fouth-eaft of Paris. Lat. 4S. 
14.N. Ion. 22. 22. E. Ferro. 
Bar-su r-Seine, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diltrict, in the department of the Aube, fituated at 
the foot of a mountain, on the Seine. It has three gates, 
a college, and a hofpital; and is five leagues and a half 
fouth-caft of Troyes. Lat. 48. 7.N. Ion. 22. 2.E. Ferro. 
Bar-i.e-Duc, a town of France, and principal town 
of a dillridt, in the department of the Meufe : before the 
revolution, it was the capital of the duchy of Bar. It is 
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