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A correa Edition of
Baron Stuben's Regulations for
the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the
United States, adorned with eight large Copper
Plates, and handsomely bound, to be Sold by the
Printers hereof.
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a seventh gratis.
TO BE SO L D,
A Good FARM, containing one hundred and twenty-fix
acres of Land, well proportioned for mowing, plow
ing, pasturing and wood land; there may be cut twenty
loads of good hay on said farm yearly, an excellent Orchard
that will make two hundred barrels of cider, two Houses
and Barns, and a Cider-Mill thereon, lying on the road from
Litchfield to Torrington For further particulars, enquire
of SAMUEL STACY and JONAS ANDREWS.
Litchfield, March aB, 1783,
TO BE SOL D,
A Good FARM, in Sharon, one mile and a half from the
meeting house, containing one hundred and seventy
acres of Land, well proportioned for plowing and meadow,
and well timbered, together with two dwelling Houses and
a Barn, and a good Orchard thereon —For further particu
lars, enquire of
TIMOTHY CARRIER.
Sharon, March 12, 1783.
" T B E S O'L D,
A Choice Farm of LAND, tying H the cAI part of Gran
ville ,about one mile and a half fro m the meeting house,
containing 103 acres, well proportioned for mowing, plow
ing and paltering, well watered with two good brooks run
ning through it, about 25 acres under improvement, cuts
about five tons of hay-— An indisputable title will be g*v
gn-—for 'eras apply to the fubferiber living in Granville.
JOB STILE S, jun.
Granville, March 31, 1783.
Non Resident Proprietors.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all the Non Resident Pro
prietors who have lands in the town of Harwinton, in
<Litchfield county, that their lands will be fold at public ven
due, at the duellinghoufeof Oliver Pht psirnheAde in said
Harwinton, on the firft Monday of May next, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, f> much as will p y their several taxes af
fetfed on said lands, together with incident charges and
fees, viz, Jabez Bacon, Elijah and J.fiah Biffel, Jonas
Hicock, David Phelps, Aaron Poelps, Benjamin Phelps, Da
niel Phelps's heirs, Daniel Phelps, Jafiah Wolcott, Jerijah
Phelps, Isaac Phelps, Rufus Clark, Abel Carter, Dodit Be
ment, Joshua Carter's heirs, Rebekah Foot, Gaius Hili,
Jairus Phelps, John Smith, J^feph Spencer, Ezra Sherman,
Nathaniel Baras, Benjimin Barns, Thomas Weft
ILIZUR BRACE, )
SOLOMON PECK, ) Colle&ors
DANIEL CATLIN, ) oftown and
ASHBEL PORIER, ) society taxes.
NATHANIEL BRACE,)
Hareinton, March 31, 1783.
AGREEABLE to directions from the Hon. Court of Pro
bate for the diftrid ofSharon, the creditors to the estate
of Benjamin Sedgwick, Lite of Canaan, deceased, are here
by notifyed to bring in their demands on said estate to the
Subferiber, by the seventh day of October next, when the
time limited by said court, for the nurpofe aforefaid will be
expired, after which they will not be allowed.
JOHN WATSON, Administrator.
Canaan, March 16, 2783.
THE Hon. Court of Probatefor the diftri& of Hartford,
having allowed fix months to the creditors to the estate
of Jeduthan Smith, to oring in their claims in order for fet
tle ment, the Administrators on said estate hereby give no
tice that they are ready co receive any claimstill the expira
tion of fix months from this date, after which time no ac
counts will be received.
HANNAH SMITH. )
WAIT GOODRICH, ) Administrators
PHILIP SELEW. )
Ctaftenbnry, March 21, 1783.
FOUND in Ball-Hartford, in November half a Note of
hand in favor of John Cook ofWeHminfter, for aeon
fiderabtyt 'um °f money. The owner may have ic again by
proving his property and paying charges, by applying to
STEPHEN HILLS,
April „ 1782.
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T UESDA Y, April 22, 1783.
PARNASSU S, No. IX.
Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus.
Hor.
IN 1753 the General Assembly recommended
the letling a Profeffor of Divinity in the Col
lege. As the recommendation proceeded on
this view, " That the Students should have the
best patterns of preaching," the Corporation desi
red President Clap to preach to them on the
Lord's day, until a Profeffor could be obtained.
Accordingly, a few weeks after, public worship
was set up in the College-Hall. The President
officiated as Chaplain about two years; at the
end of which the late Dr Dagget performed that
fervicc four months, and was then publicly in
augurated and installed Profeffor of Divinity in
the College. This gentleman continued to offi
ciate as Chaplain fifteen months longer; when,
a Church being gathered in the College with the
approbation and fan&ion of the Corporation,
and putting themselves under the administration
of the Profeffor, he was considered as the College
Paflor, and officiated as fitch upwards of twenty
years. He very seldom read lectures as a Pro
feffor; tho' in the course of his preaching his
aim was to go through with a fyfteni of Theolo
gy in four years, the usual tern @f a Collegiate
life.
The General Assembly bad not in idea a Col
lege Pqflor and Church, when they recommended
the settlement of Profeffor of Divinity. The rife
of this matter was thus: The late President Clap
undertook to catechize his aged father, the Re
verend Mr. Noyes. The vegetable old gentleman
tho't hhnfelfnottreated with the refpe&dueto the
hoary head,andfaid," lam toooldto be catechiz
ed.'^ This laid the foundation of withdrawing
theCollege from Mr. Noyes's miniftry,and of ga
thering a Church at College. Mr. Noyes and
Mr. Clap were both held in esteem as learned
and good men, though neither were reputed elo
quent preachers. Very ufeful and good men
sometimes have unhappy diffentions. I presume
these two worthy chara&ers are now perfectly
agreed. Can it be wife to perpetuate the monu
ments of their difference?
There are four worfhipingaffemblies fufficient
ly near to theCollege, in which thefame number
of evangelical Pallors officiate; whose character
for mimifterial qualifications, learning and piety
shew, that the choice of their people was far
from being injudicious. When the present or
after generations ask, " Why do not the Students
attend worship with the Congregations in town?"
(As was the case near fifty years.) Shall itbe an
swered, " The town of New-Haven do not chufe
Pallors qualified to preach to Scholars?" Or
Ihall it be said, “ There was a difference between
a former President cf the College and a Minister
of the town?" Will the Corporation juftify the
withdraw of the College on either of these
grounds? Or how would they vindicate this re
paration?
Scientific difeonrfes are to be expected
from a Profeffor of Divinity. They are npt so
well adapted to Christian worship, asplain, prac
tical, evangelical and pungent sermons. No one
questions the present Profeffor's abilities for ei
ther of these. His merit as a Preacher is known
in all the Churches, His talents as a Profeffor
are acknowledged by all competent judges. But
the business of a Pastor, or tha>tof a Profeffor, is
alone fufficient for one man. If he attends the
usual labors of a Paftor,he must negle& the du
ties of a Profeffor. Ifheis not obliged to attend
the former, why is there a separate Congrega*
tion of Christians at College. To preserve the
diftin&ion of office, should not sermons be preach
ed on the Lord's day, and leflures read on some
other day in the week ?
Some suppose that a separate worship being
kept up in the College, leads the Students to
contrast habits not the best adapted to those who
are training up for various public departments
in life.
Or admit it is eligible, that the College
should worship by themselves, not with the Con
gregations in town, still what accafion for a dif
tin& Chriilian Church in the College? The few
communicants might attend the communion
with the Churches in town, as they did several
years after the Students assembled by themselves
on the Lord's day. The setting up a federate
Church at College is an implicit disclaiming
communion with the Churches in town. It
favors of bigotry dishonorable to a literary infti
turion.
The Church, moreover, consists chiefly of
members whose residence at College is but occa
fonal, during a short Collegiate life they dis.
perfe three times in a year. On their return
home, they might commune, almost as often as
is common, in the Chuiches where they were
admitted, to which they mod properly Delong,
and to which they return upon the expiration of
their term at College.
There never hath been a Deacon in the College
Church. One quarter of the time yearly they
neither have the communion nor public nvorfoip.
None of the Tutors, and not more than menu?
Students, arc communicants. Unless there
should be additions to the Church, there will re
main but three communicants among the Stu
dents at the next Commencement. A commu
nion fofolitary is scarce vindicable, except in cir
cumfl ances of the greatest necessity.
Hence it is no improbable supposition, that
the College Church may efeheat.
Further, is there no impropriety in minors' e^
le&ing a Paflor? Have they that maturity of
judgment, which is requisite to the regular Bate
ofa Christian Church? In other Churches the
greatest number of members are performs of ma
ture years, by whose judgment and advice the
few who are in youth may be directed. Is it
meet that persons, who in civil matters are un
der Tutors and Governors, who are so as mem
bersof theCollege, Should haveit in their power as
Church members to controul the judgment of
the learned Profeffor and Pastor, corroborated
by that of the learned President, who in Church
matters has only the vote ofa private member?
The Church was meant to he formed on the
model of the confociated Churches in this go
vernment. (Clap's hist. p. 68, 69.) In these
the Pastor has not a negative; or at best cannot
a& without the confect of the brethren. On the
former supposition, the College Faflor cannot
prevent the a& of the brethren of the Church:
On either supposition they may prevent his aft,
One of the ordinances of the gospel, that of
baptism, has not been adrainfftred in the College
ten times in twenty-fix years, if lam rightly in
formed.
It is questionable whether the Church at Col
lege hath the " competed number cf visible faints "
which the ecclefiafticalconftitution makes requi
site to a Church state. The fame constitution
faith, " That all Profeffors—are bound in day
as they have opportunity, to join themselves as
' fixed members of some particular Church,"
|No. 952.]