LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. NEW WORKS. Gon's Judgments upon the Wicked the Salvation of his Church; Two Sermons delivered at Hatfield in the Months of March and April, 1813, occasioned by the total rout and overthrow of the French armies in their late invasion of the Russian empire. By Joseph Lymau, D. D. Pastor of the church in said town. Northampton; William Butler. 1813. A Display of Scriptural Prophecies, with their events, and the periods of their accomplishment. Compiled from Rollin, Prideaux, Newton, and other eminent writers. By Aaron Kinne, A. M. minister of the Gospel. Boston; Samuel T. Armstrong. 1813. pp. 20. Bible News of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as reported by Rev. Noah Worcester, A. M. No Correct. In a letter to a friend inclined to e edi, that news. Boston; S. T. Armstrong. 1813, pp. 18. A Series of Lecies, delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, en Sabbath evening. By Edward D. Grahn, D. D Pastor of Park Street Church. Boston; Nath iel Willis. 1813. pp. 327. OBITUARY. In Mendon (N J.) a young lady by the name of TOMPKINS was killed lately by lightning, while in the house of public wor ship on the Sabbath. Four others were hurt. At Lorraine, near Sacket's harbor, died Capt. JOHN NICKELS, sailing master of U. S. frigate Constitution. At New Haven, (Con.) Mrs. ELIZABETH DAGGETT, wife of Henry Daggett, Esq. aged 60. At Bellingham, (Mass.) on the 12th ult. the Rev. VALENTINE W. RATHBUN, late pastor of the first Baptist church in Bridge water. At Concord, (N. H.) between March 10th, and May 6th, 24 persons, of the spotted fever. Sixteen of these were U. S. soldiers. There had been 247 cases of the fever. At Walpole, (N. H.) the Rev. THOMAS FESSENDEN, aged 74. At Portland, the Hon. DANIEL ILSLEY, Esq. aged 73. At Norfolk, (Vir.) Capt. II. M. ALLEN, of U. S. artillery. At Hartford, (Ver.) on the 22d ult. the Rev. EDEN BURROUGHS, D. D. pastor of the church in Dartmouth College, and a trustee of that institution, aged 75; and, on the Tuesday preceding, his wife, aged 68; both of the prevailing tever. They died in peace and Christian triumph after lives of eminent piety and usefulness. At Warner, (Mass.) the Rev. WILLIAM KELLY, aged 68. Harvard College, 1761. At Lee, (Mass.) of the prevailing epi demic, on the 20th of March Let, Mr. CHARLES BACKUS JÄYDE, SOn of the Rev. Alvan Hyde, D. D. aged 17. At Pomona, (Md.) the Rev. GEORGE RALPH, aged 61. On board the Chesapeake, June 6, Capt. JAMES LAWRENCE, of that frigate, in consequence of wonds received in the late battle between the Chesapeake and Shannon, aged about 31. At Boston, on the 4th inst. Lieut. OctaVIUS A. PAGE, first of the Chesapeake, of a fever, son of the late Governor Page of Virginia, aged 28. At Geneva, (N. Y.) the Rev. JEDIDIAS CHAPMAN, aged 72, in the fifty-second year of his ministry. At Columbia, (S. C.) several members of the College in that place, of the typhus fever; in consequence of which the students had been discharged till Oct. next. Near Harrisburg, (Pa.) Gen. MICHAEL SIMPSON, aged 80. At Hardwick, the Rev. DAVID BATES, pastor of the Baptist society in Dana, aged 52. At Philadelphia, from May 1 to 29, there were 119 deaths, 82 adults and 37 children; 20 of consumption, 30 of typhus fever, 5 of apoplexy. At Bennington, (Vt.) the Hon. MOSES ROBINSON, Esq. formerly governor of that state, aged 72. At New Orleans, EVANS JONES, Esq. President of the late U. S. Branch Bank in that place. At Halifax, on the 13th inst. AUGUSTUS C. LUDLOW, first acting lieutenant of the Cheapeake, in consequence of wounds received when that irigate was captured. On board the Chesapeake, during the action on the 1st inst. WILLIAM A. WHITE, sading master, killed by the first broadside from the Shannon, aged 26. Also, in the same action, JAMES BROOME, 1st Lent. of marines, three midshipmen, and 43 officers and seamen beside those above named. At Richmond, (Vir.) Gen. JAMES WOOD, an officer in the revolutionary war and a member of the Executive Council of that state. At Exeter, (N. H.) a woman named DYE, supposed to be 105 years old, a descendant of the aborigines of this country. At Deerfield, (Mass.) Mr. JONATHAN CHAPMAN, aged 59, murdered in a quarrel, according to the verdict of the coroner's inquest. At New Haven, (Con.) Gen. JAMES MERRIMAN, a member of the Legislature of that state, aged 52. At Woodstock, (Ver.) Rev. ANDREW SMITH, pastor of the church in the south parish of that town, aged 60. At Sheffield, (Mass.) Rev. ЕPHRAIM JUDSON, pastor of the church in that town, aged 75. THE GOOD SHEPHERD, POETRY. Mr Shepherd's voice still guides my feet, I hear his voice-his voice is sweet- No stranger's call can cheat my ear And leave my heav'nly Guide! 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LECTURES ON THE EVIDENCES OF DIVINE REVELATION. No. XVI. SEVERAL facts, of very consider. able importance, immediately followed the great event of the deluge. Ist; Noah, after he left the ark, built an altar; and offered to God a sacrifice of every clean beast, and every clean fowl. 2dly; God promised, that the fear of man should be on all the animal world. 3dly; He gave permission to Noah, and his descendants, to eat flesh. 4thly; He forbade them to eat blood; First, To keep alive in mănkind a sacred sense of the importance of life; Secondly, To turn their eyes perpetually to the great Atonement for sin, which was to be accomplished by the shedding of blood; and Thirdly, In the renewal of this prohibition to the Israelites, to prevent them from idolatry. The heathen, it is to be remembered, had feasts of blood in their idolatrous rites. 5thly; He made an universal law concerning murder, to wit, VOL. IX. that every murderer should be put to death. The blood of every person murdered was required at the hand of every man, and particularly of every man's brother. In accordance with this law, mankind with an almost absolute universality have put the mur. derer to death. It deserves particular notice, that in uncivilized nations the avenger of blood has very generally been the brother, or some other person of near kindred to him who was murdered. 6thly; God made a covenant with Noah, that the earth should no more be overflowed by a deluge; but that seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, should not cease any more. 7thly; Of this covenant he made the rainbow a perpetual token. The original mode of watering the earth was by mists and dews. This mode was continued, not improbably, until the deluge: and the first rain was that, which accomplished the destruction of the world. When, therefore, Noah beheld the clouds again gathered for rain; he would necessarily conclude, that the work of destruction was to be re 7 newed. This covenant precluded these fears: and this glorious object, the rainbow, so beautiful, and so wonderful, became a delightful seal of its truth. The Greeks have preserved the memory of this fact in the fable, to which I have several times alluded: that Iris, (the Rainbow,) was the daughter of Thaumas, (Wonder,) sent to carry the oath of the gods to men. 8thly; God repeated to Noah and his family the command, originally given to our first parents; to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. On this subject it deserves particularly to be remarked, that at the two periods, when the multiplication of mankind was more necessary than at any other, mankind existed, and were connected, in pairs. The union of one man with one woman in marriage is, therefore, the state, in the eye of God the most favorable to the multiplication of our species. Accordingly, the Turks, who have every inducement to have families, arising from independence, wealth, and ample means of subsistence, and who are polygamists, are far less numerous than the Greeks, inhabiting the same country, who are monogamists, and labor under all the discouragements to marriage, found in poverty, depression, and bondage. 9thly; Noah began the business of agriculture speedily after the flood; and, having planted a vine, and drunk imprudently of the wine which it yielded, became intoxicated, and disgraced. In this situation his younger son, Ham, in a very unfilial manner treated his father with indecency, and insult. Noah, in consequence of the impiety of Ham, uttered that memorable prediction concerning his three sons, which is recorded in the ninth chapter of Genesis: And he said, "Cursed be Ham, the father of Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." And he said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth; and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." This prediction, you will remember, respected supremely the descendants of these three persons. The punishment, which Ham suffered was chiefly, if not wholly, the pain, which he experienced in his father's displeasure, and in the knowledge, conveyed to him on this occasion, of the future degradation, and sufferings, of his descendants; a pain, which he obviously deserved. On the other hand, there was an obvious propriety in rewarding Japheth, and Shem, for their filial piety by announcing to them the blessings, which God had treasured up for their posterity. These predictions have been remarkably fulfilled. The subjection of the Canaanites to the children of Israel; of the Egyptians to the Turks, the Arabians, and the several nations, who before them subdued Egypt, and held its inhabitants in bondage; and the extensive slavery, in which the people of Africa have for a long time been holden by the Europeans, and their colonies; exhibit a terrible accomplishment of that, which respects Ham. That, concerning Shem, was remarkably fulfilled in the fact, that his descendants were peculiarly bles |