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Page 4 - Colleges are Religious Societies, of a Superior Nature to all others. For whereas Parishes, are Societies, for training up the Common People; Colleges, are Societies of Ministers, for training up persons for the Work of the Ministry.
Page 5 - ... 3 He tried to prove that as " religious worship, preaching, and instruction on the Sabbath " was " one of the most important parts of the education of ministers," so " it was more necessary that it should be under the conduct of the authority of the college, than any other part of education. That the preaching ought to be adapted to the superior capacity of those who are to be qualified to be instructors of others...
Page 12 - Societies of Ministers for training up persons for the work of the Ministry. * * • Some, indeed, have supposed that the only design of Colleges was to teach the Arts and Sciences. * * * But it is probable that there is not a College to be found upon Earth upon such a Constitution...
Page 12 - ... influences which are Christian simply in a generic sense, and one which is under Evangelical control, and hallowed with revivals of religion. More than a hundred years ago, President Clapp, of Yale College, wrote : " Some, indeed, have supposed that the only design of colleges was to teach the arts and sciences, and that religion is no part of a college education.
Page 7 - It was FOUNDED, AD 1701. By Ten Principal Ministers, in the Colony of CONNECTICUT; upon the Desire, of many other Ministers, and People in it; with the Licence, and Approbation, of the General Assembly.
Page 5 - Ministers; it is more necessary, that it should be under the Conduct, of the Authority, of the College, than any other Part of Education. The Preaching, ought to be adapted, to the superior Capacity, of those, who are to be qualified, to be Instructors of others; and upon all Accounts Superior, to that, which is ordinarily to be expected, or indeed requisite, in a common Parish.
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| Title | The religious constitution of colleges, especially of Yale-college |
| Author | Thomas Clap |
| Published | 1754 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
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