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Bernadino –(May 1)

Bernard of Clairveaux --opposes Peter Abelard, (Aug.20); preaches the Second Crusade, (Mar.21); pens, "Jesus, The Very Thought Of Thee," and "Jesus, Thou Joy Of Loving Hearts," (Aug.20); and "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," (Mar.12); Death of, (Aug.20)

Berquin, Louis de --Death of, (Apr.17)

Berridge, John --Birth of, (Mar.1); awakened, (Mar.1); leaves the Calvinistic Connexion (Aug.24); John Wesley of, (Feb.5), (May20); Death of, (Jan.22)

Bethel flags –(June 22)
Bethesda Orphanage –(Mar. 25)
“Bethlehem" –(Mar.28)
Bevern --cf. (Dec.5)
Beyschlag, Willibald --founds the Evangelische Bund, (Oct.5)

Beza, Theodore --Birth of, (June 24); conversion of, (June 24); taught by John Calvin, (Oct.13); leaves Paris following the Massacre at Vassy, (May 7); presides at the Seventh National Synod of France, (Apr.2); makes a Latin and Greek translation of the New Testament, (Oct.13); with William Farel visits the Waldensians, the Huguenots, and the city of Worms, (Oct.13); grants asylum to Protestants fleeing St. Bartholomew Day Massacre, (Oct.13); of Andrew Melville, (Aug.1); Death of, (Oct.13); his body threatened with degradation is buried in a monastery, (Oct.13); cf. (Aug.24)

Bianchi –(Jan.27)
Bibb, Thomas –(Sept.27)
Bible Characters – (Jan.7)
"Bible Men" --(See: Lollards)
Bible Presbyterian Church --founded, (Apr.7)

Bible Societies
American Bible Society --founded, (May 8) Bible Society of London –(Aug.29) British and Foreign Bible Society --founded, (May 4) National Bible Society of Scotland –(July 3) one founded at Philadelphia –(Dec.12)
Biblical Commission --decrees faithful Roman Catholics may read Scripture from certain versions for devotional purposes, (Aug.22)

Bickersteth, Edward --cf. (Aug.23)

Bill For Establishing Religious Freedom --introduced by Thomas Jefferson, (June 12); adopted, (Jan.16); enacted, (Jan.16); prohibits Slavery, (Jan.16)

Bill Of Rights --the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States is introduced guaranteeing freedom of worship, cf. (Aug.8)

Bilney, Thomas --his opposition to relic worship, and the invocation of the saints, (Nov.25); his opposition to image worship, (Aug.19); his subsequent arrest and imprisonment, (Nov.25); his influence upon Hugh Latimer, (Nov.25); his recantation and remorse, and subsequent re-imprisonment, (Nov.25); Death of, (Aug.19)

Bingham, Hiram – (Oct.23)
Bishop, Bridget --found guilty of witchcraft, (June 2)
Bishops' Bible --a revision of the Great Bible, (Oct.5); cf. (May 17)
Bismarck, Otto Von --cf. (Sept. 21)
Blake, Dr. Eugene Carson --the Blake-Pike Proposal and its repudiation of the authority of Scripture, (Dec.4)
Blaurock, George –(Jan.21)
"Blessed Assurance! Jesus Is Mine!"-- (July 10)
"Blest Be The Tie That Binds" –(July 25)
Bliss, Philip --Death of, (Dec.29)
Blood, Caleb --on the anomaly of a profane magistrate, (Oct.11)
Bloody Assizes – (Sept.1)
Bloody Mary --(See: Mary Tudor)
Bloody Mary of Madagascar --(See: Ranavalona I)
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience—The controversy of, (July15)
Boardman, Sarah --(Mrs. Adoniram Judson)—(Apr.10)

Bodies of Divinity
A Complete Body of Practical Divinity- (May 24)
A Body of Practical Divinity –(July 28)

Boehme, Jacob --Birth of (Apr.24); influence upon George Foxe, (Nov.17); Death of, (Nov.17); his grave desecrated, (Nov.17)

Boer War –(Feb.2)

Boers –raid the site of the mission station of David Livingstone, (Dec.8); begin the “Reformed" Church in South Africa, (Feb.10)

Bohemia --(See: Czechoslovakia) –sues Emperor Sigismund for peace, (May 29)
Bohemian Brethren --toleration of, forbidden, (July 5)
Bohemian Congregational Church --organization of, (Mar.28)

Boleslas II (of Poland)--denounced by Bi-shop Stanislaus for his cruelty and licentiousness, (May 8); excommunication of, (May 8); the murder of Bishop Stanislaus, (May 8)

Boleslaw --his insurrection in Bohemia, (Sept.28); his treacherous murder of King Wenceslaus, his brother, (Sept.28)

Boleyn, Anne --marriage of denounced by Hugh Latimer, (Oct.16)
Bolshevik Revolution --its outrages committed against the Church, (Nov.7) Bolshevism --(See: Communism)
Bonagratia –(May 25)

Bonar, Andrew --Birth of, (May 29); marriage of, (Apr.4); the influence of -Edward Irving, (Aug.4); with Robert Murray McCheyne visits Palestine, (May 29); at the funeral of his brother, (July 31); completes his notes on Leviticus, (Oct.2); Charles Spurgeon of, (Oct.2); finishes his Memoir Of Robert Murray McCheyne, (Dec.22); Death of, (Dec.30)

Bonar, Horatio --Birth of, (Dec.20); joins the Free Church of Scotland, (May18); ordination of, (Nov.30); the influence of Edward Irving, (Aug.4); Death of, (July 31)
 

Bonar, John --recomends Brownlow North, (Mar.14); assisted by Robert Murray McCheyne, (Nov.24)
Boniface I --opposes Pelagianism, (Apr.30)

Boniface IV --receives the Pantheon from Emperor Photius, and renames it "Our Lady of the Church of the Rotunda," (May 13)

Boniface --"Apostle to the Germans"--expels the anti-Roman priests from Hesse and Thuringia, (June 5); protected by Charles Martel, (June 5); Death of, (June 5)

Bonner, Edmund --summons Bernard Gilpin, (Mar.4); deposed as Bishop of London, (July20); reinstated by Mary, (July 20); persecution under, (Sept.5); imprisonment of, under Elizabeth, (Sept.5); Death of, (Sept.5)

Book of Common Prayer –(June 9); first used in America, (June 24); Massachusetts Governor Edmund Andros orders it be read in a Massachusetts meeting-house, (Mar.25); discarded by Parliament, (Jan.3); the Second Prayer book of Edward VI, (June 9); cf. (May 19)

Book Of Concord –(June 25)
Book Of Martyrs --carried aboard ship by Sir Francis Drake, (Jan.25); comforts John Bunyan in prison, (Apr.18)
Book Of Prophecies –(Oct.12)
Boom, Corrie Ten –(Feb.28)
Booth, S. H. --cf. (Jan.18)

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