BARCLAY, JOHN Scottish divine, left the Scottish Church in 1772 and founded congregations at Sauchy burn, Edinburgh, and London. His followers were sometimes called Bereans, because they regulated their conduct by a dili gent study of the Scriptures (Acts xvii. I I). They hold a modi fied form of Calvinism.
His works, which include many hymns and paraphrases of the psalms, and a book called Without Faith, without God, were edited by J. Thomson and D. Macmillan, with a memoir (1852).