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John Barclay 1734-98, minister of the Church of Scotland and founder of the Bereans or Barclayites. His Without Faith, without God (1769) and other works were unacceptable to his presbytery, and he was prohibited from preaching. His adherents united in independent congregations, and Barclay became minister of the one at Edinburgh. Later he organized a Berean congregation in London.

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Barclay, John (1582–1621), author of the extremely popular Latin romance Argenis (1621), which refers to real historical events and personages under a veil of allegory.

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Barclay, John (1734–98), founder of the ‘Bereans’ (q.v.) or ‘Barclayites’. While he was assistant to A. Dow, the Presbyterian minister at Fettercairn in Scotland, Barclay published Rejoice Evermore (1766), in which he expounded a doctrine of immediate Divine Revelation. He was censured by the Presbytery and not appointed to succeed Dow on his death in 1772. At Edinburgh in 1773 he constituted a new Church, known as the Berean Assembly, from its zeal for the study of the Bible (cf. Acts 17: 10 f.).

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