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When the same
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name 'Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned' in the
Barebone family. One source claims this was Praise-God's baptismal name; others claim this was his brother's name; and more modern sources claim a variant on this name was given to his son Nicholas.
220:... he was preaching in his house to a hundred or a hundred and fifty people, "as many women as men", when a hostile crowd gathered outside and begun to break the windows. A constable came and arrested some of the separatists, but order was not fully restored until
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The following month more than fifty people, including many members or former members of Jessey's church, were rebaptised by immersion, in London. Barebone strongly disagreed with these advocates of believers' baptism, and within a few weeks he issued
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set up on 19 July 1653, and he was also one of the first members of the committee established on 19 August to consider law reform. In late July he was tasked with placating large numbers of women who were demonstrating at
Westminster in support of
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In notes of a trial in an ecclesiastical case to which Dr. William Bates was a party, Barbon in giving evidence incidentally mentioned that he was eighty years of age. This was in 1676, which would place his year of birth around 1596
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January 1623, having served an eight- or nine-year apprenticeship. He was elected a warden of the yeomanry of the leather-sellers in 1630, and a
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Little is known of
Barebone's early life. Writing in 2001, Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he may have been the son of John Barebone, rector of
399:: "his kingdom and reign shall be outward, and visible on earth... when he shall come the second time, in power and great glory" (p. 10).
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reprinted a petition he had made in
February calling for Members of Parliament to deny rule by Charles II or any other single person.
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A Discourse tending to prove ... Baptism ... to be the ordinance of Jesus Christ. As also that the
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in the Nominated Assembly, a body set up after the expulsion of the
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July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called
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