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 NAZAREANS NEAL 191 that he was set as a sign of Christ's coming, and that the spirit of the Saviour dwelt in him. For these opinions the parliament in 1656 con- demned him to stand with his head in the pil- lory for two hours, be whipped at the cart's tail from Palace yard to the old exchange, have his tongue bored with a red-hot iron, and his forehead branded with the letter B, as the stigma of a blasphemer ; and he was afterward imprisoned for nearly three years. After his liberation he hastened homeward, but died on the way. Naylor's theological essays, epistles, <fec., were published in 1716, and " Memoirs of the Life, Ministry, Trial, and Sufferings of James Naylor" appeared in 1719. NAZAREANS. See CHRISTIANS OF ST. JOHN. IN A/AUKVE, a term of contempt applied to Christ and his first disciples, from Nazareth, the place of his residence, a poor town in the despised region of Galilee. There was a sect of heretics called Nazarenes in the 2d century, who insisted on the necessity of combining the Mosaical ceremonies with the religion of Christ. In Hungary, in 1857, arose a new sect which in the ten succeeding years made so many con- verts as to attract the attention of the govern- ment. Calling themselves Nazarenes, without disputing the divine origin of the Old Testa- ment, they claim to derive their creed exclu- sively from the New Testament. They have no ordained clergy, and any man may explain the Scriptures. They practise baptism by im- mersion and for adults only. The funerals are simple, and the dead are not mourned for. Marriage is regarded as a purely civil institu- tion, and Sunday is not considered sacred. NAZARETH (now En-Nazireh), a town of Palestine, 20 m. S. E. of Acre, and 65 m. N. of Jerusalem ; pop. about 4,000, about one fourth of whom are of the Greek church, the Nazareth. rest being Moslems, Greek Catholics, Latins, and Maronites. It is beautifully situated in a valley surrounded on all sides by hills. The houses are mostly of stone, well built, and flat-roofed. The population has a more pros- perous appearance than in any other part of the country, and the women of Nazareth are famous for their beauty. At the periodical feasts there is an immense influx of pilgrims. The principal edifices are the Latin convent, the finest in Palestine, the Latin church of the Annunciation, the Casa Nuova, or Christian caravansary, a Mohammedan mosque, and a khan. It is celebrated as the residence of Christ during the first 30 years of his life. NAZARETH, a village of Northampton co., Pa., 60 m. N. by W. of Philadelphia and 9 m. N. W. of Easton ; pop. in 1870, 949. It was 590 VOL. xii. 13 founded by George Whitefield in 1740, who, before completing an edifice in course of erec- tion intended as a school for the instruction of African children, sold it to Count Zinzendorf, who finished it for the use of the Moravians. The village contains two large churches and a Moravian academy for boys. NAZARITE (Heb. nazir under the Levitical law, a person who for a certain period was bound by a vow to keep his hair unshorn, and to abstain from wine and every other kind of strong drink and from contact with the dead. Samson was a Nazarite. NEAL, Daniel, an English historian, born in London, Dec. 14, 1678, died in Bath, April 4, 1743. He spent three years at the universities of Utrecht and Leyden, and became assistant pastor of an Independent congregation in Lon-