Harvard colledge,) will take the leave to address their successors with certain admonitions, translated from no less than a national synod of the Protestant churches in France. The last national synod, that sat before the dissipation of those renowned churches, after the other and many cares which the former most venerable assemblies took of their universities, by their decrec, earnestly exhorted the governors of the universities to exert all their power "for the suppression of abuses crept in among them, redounding to the disgrace of religion, and opening the flood-gates to the deluge of profaneness, to break in upon the sanctuary," and under severe penalties enjoined the scholars, but most especially the students in divinity, "to keep themselves at the greatest distance from such things as are contrary to Christian modesty and sanctity, and to perfume the house of God betimes with the sweet odours of an early religious conversation, every way becoming the sacred employment whereto they be designed. Now, when we have transcribed some of the excellent words used by Monsieur Guitton, at the presenting of this decree to the university of Saumur, we will without any further delay give our catalogue leave to appear before us: "You have consecrated your labours, your time, your whole man, unto the service of the sovereign monarch of the whole world; that Lord, who is ador'd by all the angels. Your own consciences, sirs, as well as mine, must needs tell you, you cannot bring with you too much humility, nor too much self-abasement, nor too much self-annihilation, nor too much simplicity and sincerity, when you come into His presence, whose eyes are a 'flaming fire,' and who 'searcheth your hearts and trieth your reins;' and offer yourselves to be enroll'd in the number of his menial servants and gospel-ministers. "To be short, sirs, you are destinated unto an employment in which there be no advancements made but by prayers; and prayers are never heard nor answered by God, further than they be sincere; and they be not in the least sincere, where the hearts are not guided and purified by the truth of God's holy word and spirit, who dictateth our prayers, and quickneth and sanctifieth our affections. Do you imagine, sirs, that God will give you his holy spirit, without whom you are nothing and can do nothing, unless you ask him of God? And are you then qualified and fitted for prayer, a most holy duty, when as your spirit is stuffed up, occupied and distracted with your youthful lusts, and replenished with the provoking objects of your vanity? Or, can you bring unto this sacred ordinance, unto this most religious exercise, that attention, assiduity and perseverance, which is needful to the getting of gracious answers and returns from Heaven, whenas the better and far greater part of your time is consumed in worldly companies and conversations? Certainly, sirs, you will find it exceedingly difficult to disentangle yourselves from those impressions you have first received, and to empty yourselves of the vanities you have imbibed, that you may be at liberty to reflect and meditate upon God's holy word. "My dear brethren, honour and adorn that profession whereto you are devoted, and it will reflect beams of honour again upon you. Consider, sirs, what is becoming you, and God will communicate what is needful for you, to ev'ry one of you. Let his name and glory be the principal mark and butt of your conditions and studies, and it will bring down the choicest and chiefest of blessings of God upon you. Let your lives and conversations be accompanied and crowned with all the virtues and graces of reformed Christians; with that humility which becometh the servants of God; with that universal modesty and simplicity which God requireth from the ministers of his sanctuary, in their lives, actions, habits, language, behaviour, and in your whole course. And then, sirs, this your sanctification will be most acceptable unto God and saving unto yourselves; it will bring your profession into credit and reputation; it will attract upon you the best blessings of Heaven; it will render your studies and employments prosperous, successful and edifying; the churches will be the better for you, and the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ will be by you promoted and advanced." To these admonitions of Monsieur Guitton, I will only for a farewell, unto every scholar now address'd, subjoin that wherewith Mr. Carter took his leave of a scholar: Fuge fastum, ignavium et antichristum.* Our CATALOGUE is now, without any further ceremony, to be produced; a catalogue of Christian students, instructed in those, which the other day were pagan regions; a catalogue, whereof I may therefore say, as the historian does of the temple built by Constantine, it is τὸ πασιν ευκταίον, και ποθούν μevov Séqua-To all good men, a desirable spectacle. CATALOGUS, EORUM QUI IN COLLEGIO HARVIDINO, QUOD EST CANTABRIGIE NOV-ANGLORUM, AB ANNO 1642, AD ANNUM 1698. ALICUJUS GRADUS LAUREA DONATI SUNT.t + CATALOGUE of those who received Degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge, New-England, between the years 1642 and 1698, ↑ Who were admitted to the second degree in 1655. On the day following, Bachelors were admitted to the second degree, as is usual, in 1656, Samuel Shepardus • Petrus Ruck Isaacus Greenwood Johandes White, Mr. Socius 1686. Franciscus Wainwright Benjamin Lynde Mr. Johannes Davenport Mr. Jonathan Mitchel Mr. 1688. • Jacobus Allen Mr • Benjamin Pierpont Mr. 1890. Paulus Dudlæus Mr. Socius. Thomas Buckinghamus • Johannes Selleck Johannes Newmarch Mr. Thomas Greenwood Mr. • Benjamin Easterbrookaus Mr. 1691. Johannes Tyng Mr. • Thomas Atkinsonus Benjamin Colman Mr. 1693. Isaacus Chauncæus Mr. Johannes Woodward Mr. Adamus Winthrop Mr. Samuel Vassal Richardus Saltonstall Mr. Illi quorum nominibus hæc hocta (*) præfigitur, e vivis cesserunt.* Simon Willard Mr. Ezekiel Lewis Johannes Perkins Mr. 1696. Georgius Vaughan 1697 Elisha Cookeus 1698. Thomas Symines Dudlæus Bradstreet Nathanael Hubbard Henricus Swan Johannes White Oxenbridge Thacherus CANTABRIGIÆ, NOV-ANGLORUM, SEXTO QUINTILIS.-MDCXCVII.† We will conclude our catalogue of the graduates in this colledge with the elegy which the venerable Mr. John Wilson made upon its founder. • Those to whose names an asterisk (*) is prefixed, have departed this life. + Cambridge, New-England, May 6th, 1698. IN PIENTISSIMUM, REVERENDISSIMUMQUE VIRUM, È SUGGESTIO SACRO CAROLOENSI AD CELOS EVECTUM, JOHANNES HARVARDUS. ANAGR-SI NON (AH!) SURDA AURE. En, mihi fert animus, patroni nomine vestri (Si non, (ak!) surdå spernitur aure) loqui Sic ait. Me Deus, immenso per Christum motus amore, Usque ad dimidium sortis opumque Deus. Hæc mihi spcs (ritd morienti dulcior olim) At si degeneres liqueat ros esse (quod absit !)— Grata sit aut nobis, si secta vel hæresis ulla, JOHANNES WILSONUS. VERBA DOCT. ARROWSMITII, In Orat. AntiwEIGELIANA. Fazit Deus optimus, maximus, tenacem adeð veritatis hanc academiam, ut deinceps in Anglid lupum, in Hibernia bufonem, invenire facilius sit, quàm aut Socinianum, aut Arminianum in Cantabrigia. [TRANSLATION Of the above, expressly for tIIS EDITION.] TO THE MOST PIOUS AND REVEREND BORNE FROM THE SACRED DESK AT CHARLESTOWN TO THE SKIES, A POEM, ADDRESSED TO THE LEARNED ALUMNI OF CAMBRIDGE. JOHN HARVARD.. ANAGRAM-UNLESS WITH A DEAF EAR. Your patron's voice my enger spirit hears— He speaks. God, through the boundless mercy of his Son, Filled me with strength divine, and showed the way I gave to you who throng this sacred hall, If darling heresies delight afford, And yo deny your conscience and your Lord, How will ye spurn the path your founder trodllow tempt a covenant-keeping God! Yet blend not thoughts like these with thoughts of me; Do whatsoo'er your hands shall find to do. WORDS OF DR. ARROWSMITH IN HIS ANTIW210LIAN ORATION.-May the great and good God grant. that this college shall be so tenacious of the truth, that it will be casier to find a wolf in England and a snake in Ireland, than either a Socinian or Arminian in Cumbridge! |