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Bailey, John Congregational minister, was born in Lancashire, England, Feb. 24, 1644, studied under Dr. J. Harrison, and entered the ministry at Chester, 1666. As a Nonconformist, he was imprisoned in Lancashire jail for some time, and after his release he went to Limerick, Ireland, where he labored faithfully as pastor for 14 years. The … Continue reading “Bailey, John”

Bailey, James W a Universalist minister, was born in New Hampshire about 1814. He spent his youth in Claremont working upon The Impartialist, a Universalist paper, and preparing for the ministry. The date of his entrance into the ministry is not recorded. He had various stations in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, and died … Continue reading “Bailey, James W”

Bailey, Jacob a frontier missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Rowley, Mass., 1731. He graduated at Harvard in 1755, and in 1758 was licensed to preach by the Congregational Association at Exeter, N. H. In 1759 he left the Congregational Church, and embarked for England, to be ordained for the ministry in … Continue reading “Bailey, Jacob”

Bailey, J a Scotch Baptist minister, was born in 1785. That he was a minister of ability and established reputation appears from the circumstance that he was called to be pastor of the Scotch Baptist Church in Nottingham, in Park Street. His death took place at Lenton, June 7, 1840. See (Lond.) Baptist Handbook, 1841, … Continue reading “Bailey, J”

Bailey, Haman a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Tennessee, but the date is unrecorded. He received a careful religious training; experienced conversion at a very early age, and in 1840 united with the Alabama Conference, and labored with unprecedented usefulness and acceptability until his decease, Jan. 11, 1845. Mr. Bailey was a thorough Bible … Continue reading “Bailey, Haman”

Bailey, Giles a Universalist minister, was born in Acworth, N. H., May 7, 1815. He received a liberal education; began teaching school at the age of seventeen.; took private instruction in theology; was licensed to preach in 1839, and ordained in 1840. He labored successively two years in Winthrop, seven years in Brunswick, three years … Continue reading “Bailey, Giles”

Bailey, Dudley P a Baptist minister, was born in Yarmouth, Me., about 1810, and was a graduate of Bowdoin College in the class of 1829. Having received a license from the Church in Yarmouth, he began his ministry in Greene, Me., in 1833, of which Church he was ordained pastor in 1835, where he remained … Continue reading “Bailey, Dudley P”

Bailey (Lat. ballium), a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep: sometimes there were two or three of these courts between the outer wall and the keep, divided from each other by embattled walls. The name is … Continue reading “Bailey”

Bailath-beer (Hebrews Badlath’ Beer’, , Baalah of [or having] a well; Sept. v. r. ), probably the same as the BAAL of 1Ch 4:33, a city of Simeon; mentioned in connection with RAMATH Negeb, or Southern Ramah (Jos 19:8; comp. 1Sa 30:27), in such a manner as to make them identical (so the Sept. B. … Continue reading “Bailath-beer”

Bail, Louis a French theologian, a native of Abbeville, was doctor of the Sorbonne (1628), rector of Montmartre, and sub-penitentiary of Paris, where he died in 1669. He wrote, Summa Concilidrum (1659): De Triplici Examine Ordinandorum Confessorum et Paenitentium (1651): Theologia Affectiva. (1672): De Beneficio Crucis (1653). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Bail, Louis”