my can fuch a time, and in fuch a manner, knoweth the things of a man, could fet feal that juftice was good and glorious. While thus filled with comfort, that I was unable to mourn, the tho't rofe in my mind, what a glorious day will the Millennial day be to the church militant, if fuch fupport be given and received in the prefent ftate! My mind was then attracted to the church triumphant, being filled with the fulness of God, and the glory of the Lord rifen upon their fouls. If all the world and its fcenes fhould be made to pafs be'fore them, it would fcarcely attract a fingle thought. There could be no room for any thing but God. Nor would more be needed. Truly God is a fufficient portion for the foul. Our comfort and happiness do not depend on the ftate of any gone before us, or on any of his creatures. For myself, I know I was and am happier in refigning up my child to God, at his call, than I could be in the child, if he had been -continued to me as before. InOn the day of the child's ftead of being overwhelmed with death, and while frequent prayers forrow of heart, as I have expect- were offered up in his behalf, and ed heretofore when I have turned for all concerned, a person entered my mind on the parting with a with a requeft in behalf of a neigh child, I found a fatisfaction in de- bor, that he might be remembergree and kind far exceeding that ed in prayer, being juft then beof the day of his birth. I rejoi- reaved of his partner in life, and ced in the will of God; and greatly diftreffed. The request thought, if he called, I could was complied with ; and from that Spare every one of the goodly moment relief came, and that number then living. You will high fatisfaction in the divine will, ask the cause of this. By what which I have related. Job xlii. means it came to pass that 10. "The Lord turned the captivin this way, fhould be no trial, ority of Job when he prayed for his affliction; but a happiness greater friends." Ifa. lxv. 2. "And than could be without it, yea a bleffing worth both the Indies? Prayer. This was the precious means. And if the word was printed in letters of gold, and my utmost endeavors ufed to defcribe to you a mind fupported at a trial it fhall come to pass that before they call, I will anfwer, and whiles they are yet speaking I will hear." As for myfelf the expected trial was pait, hours before the child's death. And the requests made in the prayers, appeared to be minutely anfwered. The child was taken, but fupport was given and continued, yea, more than fupport. "Alfo the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before." Dear fir, if you can make any ufe of this narration for the honor of God, and the comfort of diftreffed friends in dying fcenes, by exciting Chriftians as well as minifters, to pray much at fuch feafons, the defire of my mind will be answered.” Yours, &c. An apoftolical Anecdote, Gal. ii. 11-16, inclufively. "B 66 he was to be blamed," and "faid unto Peter before them all, if thou being a Jew, liveft after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compelleft thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?-We who are Jews by nature, and not finners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not juftified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift, that we might be jus tified by the faith by Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law fhall no flesh be juftified." Reflections on the preceding anecdote. Ift, If minifters were lefs afraid of the cenfures of men, and more afraid of difpleasing an holy God, would they not be in the way to do much more, than they now do, for the glory of God?-2d, How great a difgrace it is, for a minister of the gospel, in any company, to be afhamed of its peculiar and diftinguishing doctrines of grace, when providentially called to defend them!Let fuch an onelook on the blameworthy Peter, and remember how, an unfhaken Paul treated him, for his weak and diffembling conduct, in the face of the whole multitude.-3d. How much it concerns highly refpected minifters of the gofpel, and highly refpeeted members in every Chriftian EFORE that certain" Jewish zealots, came from James" who was then at Jerufalem to Antioch, Peter "Did eat with the Gentiles" there, who had embraced the gofpel and had not fubmitted to circumcifion; But when they were come, he withdrew, and feparated himself" from them, as if he had thought them unclean, tho' the Lord had fo exprefsly taught him the contrary in a vifion, and at the house of Cornelius; and this he did, not from any change in his fentiments, but purely, as "Hearing them which were of the circumcifion," being unwilling to difplease them, and thinking their cenfures of much greater impor-church, to fhow an unfhaken firmtance than they really were. "And the other Jews diffembled likewise with him; infomuch that Barnabas alfo was carried away with their diffimulation. But when (Paul) faw that they"-Peter and others "Walked not uprightly" in this affair, According to the truth of the gofpel," which taught the contrary, ("He) withstood him to the face, because nefs, in fupporting all gofpel doctrines, and fuch Christian proceedings as are right and in publicly difcountenancing all pretended ones, which are wrong, left the weaker brethren, like Barnabas and the other Jews, be carried away with their diffimulation, to do fuch things, as will greatly difhonor God and injure the A. **** Church. Religious Intelligence. Extracts from the Minutes of the General Affociation of Conneclicut, A. D. 1802. HE General Affociation of Conecticut met, agreeably to appointment, on the third Tuefday of June, 1802, at 1I o'clock, at the house of the Rev. Matthias Burnet, in Norwalk. act and vote :Which articles are the great principles of the union betwen the General Affembly of the Prefbyterian Church in America, and the General Affociation of the minifters of Christ, in the state of Connecticut. The above articles were approved and accepted by this Affociation. Whereupon the Rev. Martin Tullar, prefented his certificate as a delegate from the convention, in Vermont, and took his feat accordingly. After attending to fundry oth er matters, the Affociation, in The delegation to the convention of the clergy of the ftate of Vermont, appointed at the last Affociation, reported the following plan of union, mutually dif-compliance with a standing rule, cuffed by the convention and faid delegation, and approved and accepted by faid convention, "Articles of union and intercourse between the General Affociation of the clergy of the ftate of Connecticut, and the General Convention of the clergy of Vermont." Article 1. Each body fhall fend one or two delegates or commiffioners to meet and fit with the other, at the ftated feffions of the body. Article 2. The delegate or delegates from each body, feveral ly, fhall have the privilege of entering into the difcuffions and deliberations of the body, as freely and equally, as their own members. Article 3. That the union and intercourfe may be full and complete between the faid bodies, the commiffioner or commiffioners from each, refpectively, fhall not only fit and deliberate, but alfo 4. proceeded to make the usual enquiries concerning the state of religion, in the churches, under the following heads, 1. Is there any fpecial attention to or revival of religion in your district? 2. Is there general union and harmony in the churches? 3. What number of vacancies in each district, and in what ftate with respect to union? What inftances of removal by death or otherwise-or fettlement of minifters, or new churches formed, since the last seffion of the General Affociation. As the refult of the enquires, the Affociation remark with pleasure that, in thofe churches and congregations, where there have been recent revivals of religion, the fruits are fuch as confirm the hopes and joys of the people of God. It alfo appears that harmony and peace generally prevail in the churches; and that there is, in feveral congregations, in this ftate, an increafing difpofition to attend the public worship and inftruction of the Lord's day. We are alfo peculiarly happy in obferving that there appears in YaleCollege, a very general and ferious attention to religion, which affords a very pleafing profpect to lege. the friends of Chriftianity and of | next commencement at Yale-Colthe profperity of the churches. It alfo appears that there is a revival of religion, very extenfively, within the limits of the General Affembly of the Presbyterian Church. The following ministers were appointed to certify the good ftanding and character of preachers of the gospel, travelling from this ftate into other ftates-The Rev. Dr. Nathan Perkins, Hartford N. Rev. William Robinson, Hartford S. Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, New-Haven W. Rev. Thomas W. Bray, NewHaven E. Rev. Jofeph Strong, New-London, Rev. Dr. Ifaac Lewis, Fairfield W. Rev. David Ely, Fairfield E. Rev. Mofes C. Welch, Windham original Affociation, Rev. Andrew Lee, Windham E. Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Litchfield N. Rev. Dan Huntington, Litchfield S. Rev. Dr. Nathan Williams, Tolland, Rev. John Devotion, Middlesex. The Affociation proceeded to chufe delegates to the General Affembly of the Prefbyterian Church to meet, in the city of Philadelphia, on the third Thursday in May next, and the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, Afahel Hooker, and David Ely were chofen. The Rev. William Lockwood, Dan Huntington and Matthias Burnet were chofen fubftitutes; either of whom to fupply the place of faid delegates now chofen, who may not be able to attend. The Rev. David Tullar and Jofeph Washburn were appointed delegates to the convention of Vermont, which meets on the evening of the first Tuesday of September next at Granville. The Rev. Amzi Lewis was appointed to preach the Concio ad Clerum on the evening after the The following perfons were elected RECEIVERS, in their respective districts, to receive fuch fums of money as the ministers and others may be willing to contribute for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the delegation of this Affociation to the General Affembly of the Presbyterian Church and the General Convention of the clergy of Vermont, (viz.) The Rev. Henry A. Rowland, Hartford North, William Robinson, Hartford S. Matthew Noyes, N. Haven E. Bezaleel Pinio, New-Haven W. Samuel Nott, New-London, Hezekiah Ripley, Fairfield W. Samuel Blatchford, Fairfield E. Zebulon Ely, Windham, Andrew Lee, Windham E. Samuel J. Mills, Litchfield N. Azel Backus Litchfield S. Dr. Nathan Williams, Tolland, Elijah Parfons, Middlefex. The Rez. Abel Flint, was appointed Treasurer of the Affociation and Joseph Washburn Auditor of the accounts of the fame. Returns were made according to vote, of unfettled ministers and candidates continuing to preach under the licences of the diftri&t Affociations of Connecticut, viz. Of unfettled Minifters. Rev. Simon Backus, Guilford, Rev. Aaron Kinne, Winchester, Rev. David Huntington, Middletown, Rev. Samuel Sturges, Greenwich, Rey. John Willard, Kensington, Rev. Aaron Woodward, North-Haven, Rev. Abraham Fowler, Derby, Rev. Eraftus Ripley, New-Haven, Rev. Ezekiel J. Chapman, Saybrook, Rev. Jedidiah Bushnell, Saybrook. Licenfed Preachers. Jeremiah Day, Yale-College, Ebenezer G. Marfh, Yale-Col lege, Bancraft Fowler, Yale-College, Jonathan Bird, Berlin, Rob. ert Porter, Farmington, Gurdon : Johnson, Granby, Nathaniel Dwight, Wethersfield, James W. Woodward, Hanover, N. H. Timothy Williams, Woodftock, Aaron Hovey, jun. Mansfield, Loomis, Colchester, William Hart, Berlin, William Riels, Milford, Pitkin Cowles, Southington, Abijah Carrington, Milford, Timothy Stone, Milford, John Niles, Killingworth, Thomas Robbins, Norfolk, Humphry Moore, Pincetown, Mafs. Gideon Burt, jun. Long-Meadow, David Ripley, Abington, Jabez Munfel, Franklin, John Lord, Waterford, Ifaac Knap, Norfolk, James Eells, Glaftenbury, Elihu Smith, Granby, Mafs. Voted, that the next meeting of the General Affociation be holden at the houfe of the Rev. Stephen W. Stebbins in Stratford, on the third Tuesday of June next. Extract of a letter from Rev. James Welb, of Lexington, Kentucky, dated July 15, 1802, to one of the Editors, containing fome further account of the late revival of religion in that country. Many earnest prayers I believe afcended to a throne of grace, for a confiderable time previous to the commencement of the work amidst many and various difcouragements. It was to be obferved however, that much greater numbers attended the miniftration of the word for fome time before the work began. But except this, nothing else could be feen, unless it might be a ftrengthened determination among a number of God's people to continue in waiting on him for a day of his power; and fome increase of hope that eventually they fhould not be difappointed in their expectations. So far as I have been informed the "work began on Green river, from the exercises of a very pious woman as I have stated above. It appeared that God made use of the compaffionate burfts of forrow which broke from her heart, for the multitudes around her, in the way to ruin, to awaken reflection in many of them who had always lived in total careleffnefs before. Many from that time began to hear the call of the Lord of Hofts and confider their ways; confequently to see their undone state by nature and enquire what they should do to be faved. There the work began and thence it fpread. You have in "THE work began in the fouthern part of this ftate, in the country called Green river. The people of God became deeply fenfible of the state of the churchquired, fir, as to the views of those in this country, which, at that time, was indeed in a very declined fituation. All the laws were made void in the moft wanton manner, and little more than the form and fome outward appearance of religion among us. Under this view of things, numbers of Chriftians became much concerned that God would change our mournful state, and revive his caufe among us. under convictions? They appear, fo far as I can judge of them, generally to have very awful apprehenfions of their fate as finners, of the holiness, juftice and majefty of God. Their views of the demerit of fin, and their utter inability to escape from the wrath, with which they then believed it threatened, have brought many of them apparently to the brink of defpair, and filled them with such |