Missionary Societies, Canadian. [See BRITISH AMERICA.] Moung Nau, first Baptist convert in Burma, 815.

Monasteries, the, immoralities practiced in the sixteenth Nazarite, vow of, imposed on John the Baptist, Samson,

exhibits himself in the Circus Maximus, 105.

decreed by the Senate to be an enemy of the State,
105.

Nerva, the Emperor, forbids religious persecution, 148.
Netherlands Baptists, the:

early refugees from Waldenses, 407.
rejected infant baptism, 407, 408.

did not participate in the Münster insurrection, 409.
buried alive, 412.

bitter persecution of, 412.

Dutch martyrs, 413.

fiendish tortures inflicted on, 414, 415.

they increase and multiply, 415.

money collected to assist the Prince of Orange, 417.
dissensions among as to Church discipline, 420
origin of, 421, 422.

New Brunswick, Baptists of, 921.

New Hampshire, Baptists of:

early struggles, 762.

Rachel Scammon, 763.

Half-way Covenant, the, 763.

the Newton church organized, 764.
conversion of Dr. Shepherd, 765.

settlement at Baptist Hill,' 766.

recent statistics, 767.

famous ministers, 767, 768.

New, Isaac, 938.

New Jersey:

first Baptist church in, 709.

religious freedom guaranteed in, 709.
planting of Baptist churches in, 714.

New Jerusalem, the, at Münster, 328.
New Lights, the, 742, 743.

a Jewish congregation organized in, 655.

Newman, A. H., 934, 935.

Newport, R. I.:

church of, 658.

first church at, 669, 671.

669.

Apostolic Churches the only model for all Churches,

officers and ordinances of the Apostolic Church, 129.
the Baptist copy of the Apostolic Churches, 148.
Newton, Isaac, discovery of the law of gravity, 6.
Newton Theological Institution, 874.

New York, Baptists of:

conventicles and meetings forbidden, 746.
early religious persecution of, 746, 747.
Lady Moody and Gravesend, 747.
Wickenden, Rev. William, 748.

preaching and baptizing in New York, 749.
first Baptist Church, 750, 751.

how connected with Block Island Baptists, 751, 752.

the first Church during the Revolutionary War, 755.
new Churches formed, 756.

the second Baptist Church, 756.

Bethel Church, 756.

Fayette St. Church, 756.

Oliver Street Church, 756.

Epiphany, Church of the, 756.

Baptist Association formed, 756.

New Zealand, 939.

North-west Territory, 928.

Nicæa, Council of:

Constantine presides over, 197.
Arianism condemned, 197.

union between Church and State established, 197.
assembled by Constantine, 203.

magnificence of the prelates attending, 203.

marks of torture borne by many of the members, 203.
Constantine confirms its decrees, 204.

ordained that no Christian should be without the
Scriptures, 208.

its decree concerning the baptised man, 211.

Nice, Council of, affirms doctrine of transubstantiation,

255.

Nicholsburg Articles, the, 384.

Nicodemus, 67.

Nicomedia, 196.
Niebuhr:

on the religious tolerance of Rome, 99.

on the character of Constantine, 204, 205.
Ningpo, mission to, 825.

Noddle's Island, 701, 703.

Notus:

error of, 182.

tried for blasphemous utterances, 192.
Nordin, Robert, 727.

North Carolina:

traces of early Baptists in, 727.

early pioneers, 757.

open-air meetings, 758.

an association formed, 759.

famous names among, 759.

North, Robert, 752.

Northrup, Geo. W., 877.

Norway, Christianity introduced into, 246.

Norwich, Conn., struggles of the Baptist church at, 744.

Nova Scotia, Baptists of, 919.

early settlements, 919, 920.

the first Baptist association in, 920, 921.

earliest missionary society, 922, 923.

banishment of Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr. Wheeler, Novatian, his case the first recorded instance of departure

Morgan Edwards on the, 671.

honorable history of the Church at, 673.

church at always Calvinistic, 673.

New Testament, translated into Assamese, 821.

New Testament Period, the:

John the Baptist, 13.

Baptism of Jesus, the, 25.

witness of the Baptist to Christ, 36.

Christ's witness to the Baptist, 47.
the King in Zion, 57.

laws of the new kingdom, 57.

Octavia, wife of Nero, 102.

Ecolampadius:

on infant baptism, 331.

0.

a friend to Denk and Hubmeyer, 346.

efforts at pacification, 347.

Pastors in the Apostolic Church-Continued.
rule exercised by, 136.

971

false pretensions connected with the word 'bishop,'

136.

Paterson, James, 577.

Patience, Thomas, 571.

Patmos, Isle of, 111.

Patrick, Saint:"

immersed seven kings and eleven thousand con-
verts, 79.

instructs the Irish in the use of Roman letters, 224.
Patton, A. S., 886.

advises Council of Basle to adopt severe measures Paul the Apostle [see SAUL]:

against Baptists, 347.

Oglethorpe, Governor, 770.

Oldcastle, Sir John (Lord Cobham), executed as a Lol-

lard, 324.

Old Lights, 744.

Olin, Stephen, on the Brook Kidron, 77.

Olmstead, J. W., 882.

Olney, Thomas, Jr., 667.

Olney, Thomas, Sr., 664, 665.

Olshausen, quoted on John's immersions, 35.

Omas, to immerse,' 156.

Oncken, J. G., 827, 828, 829.

on the formation of a new church at Hamburg in
1834, 149.

finds twelve believers at Ephesus, 52, 53.
in the synagogue, 88.

mission to the Gentiles, 88.
Arabian seclusion, 89.
assailed by foes, 90.

returns to Damascus, 90.

made known to Peter by Barnabas, 91.
received with doubt by the disciples, 91.

visits Jerusalem, 92.

vast labors in Antioch, 94.

first great missionary expedition, 94.

lands at Salamis, and drops the name of Saul, 94.
takes precedence of Barnabas, 94.

epistles of, 94, 95.
shipwrecked at Malta, 95.
miracle of the viper, 95.

journeys to Rome, 95, 96.

arrives at Appii Forum, 95.

welcomed by the Roman brethren to the Three Tav-

Paul, the founder of the Paulicians, arrest and punish-

ment of, 239.

Paulicians, the, 9.

persecutions of, 234.

coupled with the Manichæans, 234.

rebel, and ally themselves with Mussulmans, 240.

one thousand barbarously put to death, 240.
fly to arms in self-defense, 240.

emigrate to Europe, 240.

Palimpsests, first appearance of, 240.

Paulinus, Bishop, baptistery of, Northumberland, En-
gland, 255.

Paul's Epistles the first to be collected into one volume,

155.

Peasants' War, the:

causes of, 362.

begins in the Black Forest, 363.

rapid spread of the insurrection, 363.
the peasants demand their rights, 364.
a general uprising, 364.

Pictures, Ancient Baptisinal, 256, 275. [See LIST OF IL-
LUSTRATIONS.]

Pilate, Christ's reply to, 58.

Pilgrims and Puritans, differences between, 622.

crusade of Sinon de Montfort against the Waldenses, Pilgrims, the Plymouth:

Pools of Jerusalem. [See the various names.]
free of use to the public, 77.

Poppaa:

kicked to death by Nero, 102.

shameless vices and extravagance, 102.
Portsmouth, R. I., and its churches, 670.
Posey, Humphrey, 844.
Post-Apostolic Age, the:

the Church in the second century, 155.
the Church in the third century, 172.
the Church in the fourth century, 194.
the Church in the fifth century, 211.

243.

the Church in the sixth to the ninth century, 226.
baptism and baptisteries in the middle ages,
ancient baptisinal pictures, 256.

the Church in the twelfth century, 276.

the Waldensians, 294.

Bohemian Brethren and the Lollards, 313.

Powell, Vavasor, 600.

Prætorium at Rome, the, 96, 97.

Prague, Council of, censures the pride of the higher
clergy, 244.

Prayer-book, the, use of forbidden by Parliament, 484.
Prayer-book of 1549, aspersion permitted therein in the
case of weak infants, 429.

Prayer-book of Edward VI., enjoins only a single im-
mersion, 429.

Preachers, noted American Baptist, 852.

Preger, on Waldensian Church Government, 305.

Presbyters. [See ELDERS.]

Presbytery in the Apostolic Church, 137.

Price, John, 681.

Prince Edward Island, 928, 929.

Pritchard, William, 607.

Prome, Mission to, 821.

Proselytes of Righteousness, 31.

Proselytes of the Gate, 31.

Providence, R. I.:

founding of, 643.

revival in, 668.

church at, 658, 661.

troubles in the church at, 663.

defective church records, 664.
laying on of hands, 666.

Manning's pastorate, 667.

Proxies. See SPONSORS.]

Prugner, Nicholas, 387.

Prussia, mission work in, 829.

Pryor, William, 924.

Pseudo Reinerius, on the Waldensians, 303.

Publication Society, the Baptist, 888.

Pullus, Cardinal, on three symbolisms of immersion, 247.

Purgatory, growth of the doctrine of, 215.

Puritans, the:

a different people from the Pilgrims, 622.

their aversion to the Separatists of Leyden, 622.

aristocracy, 623.

founded a state, 624.

persecuted on principle, 625.

persecution of the Browns, 626.

Puritans of Massachusetts, intolerant and inquisitorial,

693.

Q.

Quakers. [See FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF.]

persecuted in Virginia, 726.

Quebec, Province of, Baptist progress in, 927. [Seo
MONTREAL.]

Queen of Versions. [See ARMINIAN VERSION.]
Queensland, 939.

Rabbins, the, 84:

R.

their minute teachings, 84, 85.
Rabbis, sayings of the, 23.
Rand, S. T., 923.

Rand, Theodore H., 936.
Randall, Benjamin, 767.
Rangoon, Burma, 816.

mission work in, 815.

Ransom, Elisha, 768.

Ratram, writes against transubstantiation, 255.
Ravenna, baptistery at, 269, 270.

Ravenna, Council of, aspersion permitted by, 427.
Ray, Simon, Jr., 752.

Reek, Stevenson, barbarities inflicted on, 725.
Rees, David, 939.

Reformation, Era of the:

Zwingli and Faber, 330.

Council of Zurich and its decrees, 331, 332.

early Baptist martyrs in Switzerland, 334, 335,
336.

confessions of faith, early Baptists, 240.

Zwickau and Luther, 354.

Peasants' War, the, 362.

German Baptists, the, 379, 395.

Baptists in the Netherlands, 407.

Reformed Inquisition, the. [See ZURICH, COUNCIL OF.]
Regeneration, Baptismal :

corrupting influence of the absurd doctrine of, 211.
Chrysostom on, 211.

Gibbon, Edward, on, 212.

growth and spread of the heresy, 213.

Registry Act, of 1653, the, 486.
Regular Baptists in Virginia, 731.
Relic worship, 205.

Religious Herald,' the, 883.

Rhode Island:

settlement of, 641.

Williams, Roger, 642.

founding of Providence, 643.

freedom in, 649, 650.

Revision of 1745, the,' 650.

Roman Catholic freedom in, 651.
Jewish freedom in, 655.