New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 10

Articles Of Faith And Covenants In Central Association. _ cleton (A paper read by Hazen, former pastor o church, at 1t Rev, C the Kensing- ton Congregational the Central Assoc churches in ation o this city meeting of Congregational Tuesday.) A study which be determine the o cles in led to res and to certain Church ha wider intere each of th cept the M Memorial and Bethany New Britain, The so the publications of the Eharches, sletches, nal re.o epondenc the ity that to are o lo with dletown the Stanle wirehes s have been such as manuals, 1d in a few ins ances The manua found one in ons anothe in another, and little or no forma rning the origin o 5 a elusive, to be and giv tion the printing. It "has study, and has reveals concerning the doctri the churches fundamental statements, I may begin with a paragraph a discourse of Rev, - Joab Brace re- viewing Half-Century ministry at Newington in 1835: “The covenant has never beén changed and 1 pray that it never may be changed to the end of the world. What for creeds or confidence can there be in them, if every minister thas is settled must make a new confession of faith? Thie covenant, written in this pulpit Bible and in the church records, was brought from the mother Chureh, and here it is to this day. All the ministers here have received the same doctrine and have manifested the pame spirit as Paul in the text— aotAng but Jesus Christ and him crucified.” There is not one of the churches in this group in which the fundamental documents have not been modified or ehanged entirely, Some have adopt- ed the Oreed of 1883, and some the Kansas City Creed of '913, and some have made the covenint alope the fundamental constitution af the church, without more elaborate state- ment of faith. The significance of the Newington Articles of Faith and Covenant so prized by Rev, Joab RBrace appears when we find that probably the Rocky Hil! Church received the same from Wethersfield, Jecture that the Kensington Church whose first pastor was from Wethers d, followed that church in its first symbol!s, though documentary evi- dence is entirely wanting; the jew Britain Church in 1758 reproduces jubstantially the same, and the South hurch New Britain as late as 1860 68 (founded 1842) retains much of tha Covenant; the Worthington Church (Berlin 2d4) in 1775 adopted substantially the same Articles and Oevenant. The Covesant now in use In the Kensington Church, and since 1877, was at that time apparently tak- en from the Routh Church, New Brit- Ain, and contains much of the word- Ing of the Covenant of the early 18 Century, as witnessed by these several churches, I have conc symbols use fascinating considerable =y been a history as recorded in their from unable to secure avi. dence of the origina! Wetherafield documents, exeept as they are wit- neased from Newington; though the been Wetherafield Covenant in the Manual | of 1833 supports the wtatement. Adams and Stilea “Ancient Wethers. field"” contains a Cove t, as adopted at Rocky Hill In 1797, which ia in- dexed as, common to Wethersfield, Newingtoh and Rocky Hill, but the index seema to be in error. The Rocky Hill Manual 1843 indicates that the document in question 18 “Articles of Faith and Covenant united, abridged and adopted March 19, 1707", that is three years after the beginning the pastorate of Rev, Calvin Chapin, Now we turn to the other group of Bhurches, in Meriden, Bouthington and Kensington, as sharing with both groups. The origin of this present study was in Articles of Faith and Covenant whose date was undetermin- o4, in a desire to ascertain at least thelr date. They are Bamuel Clark and Rev, Benoni Upson, 17741770, At the period of Separation of WoMlh- jegton from Kensington, but they are in the unmistakeable hand of the Civil War minister, Rev. Elias B, Hil- | lard, more than three quarters of a eentury later, A manuscript copy is extant bearing date of 18536; but 1 am oonvinced that date represents the date of the copy, rather th eppreciable modification of t ments, You may be Interested in a b e method by which the were temad. 1 began making compa 8 At first the Westmingter Confension and Catechisms through the & rok Plattorm eame the acknowledg doctring from 170 During a mors #a cognized nt of ®ach #a own roua! oamen i Kensington | reverence | | fied and filed by index letier | the It is a reasonable con- | of | | ka o distinctive sentences God made man up- sinally stamp®d ¢ him his imag 1o, of right- and by reason plunged It and his post cousn ot sin he ims: v into In the Win 1647 1 Ba oldest creed oldest of conscquentl; ) ind miscry of sin ‘01 Croed ( whit ton of the a similar | | plunged 3 posterity semblanc t ntioned phra W e found anywher asummary of th stmin conditions, stic document is unmistakeably Arminian leaning. next stage of investigation to make comparison with such manuals as 1 had acc The first find this process wae at the gregatio House, Hartlord, where 1 ¢ d a considerable file of manuals that had not been cls .\m\m,’:; of this 5 10, in ssi- was 4 Manual of the | Haven Church, containing Artic marked by some of the same peculiar- ities that 1 have noted he were taken from the Diary Stile dent of 468,9, which 1 ha They are descril he Confes- sion of Kaith and Chh. Cov't. for Ad- mission of Communicants in the Chh |at No. Haven was draughted by Mr. | Whittelsey at my father's ordinar | 1724—to which 1 assented phbliekly at my admission info the Chh, % | North Haven, Nov. 23, 1746, act. 19" | He adds, "1 received this from Mr Street of Fast Haven, who received it from my father the Rev, lsaac Stiles as the Form ueed by him in the Chh, | of North Haven. May I never forget these solems vows and covenant en- gagegements. This contains the striking phrase, “Has plunged himsell | into a state of sin and misery.” There lis also an articie very similar to that ve have noted as of Armenian ten- dency, “You believe the necessity of faith, repentance and Dolincss of { heart and Hfe, in order to salvation,” Substantially the same Articles and ;anunn! are common to the two Mer- iden churches, dating from 1720, and to Cheshire, 1724, These were formed from Wallingford, and Cheshire at any rate was organized by N. Chaun- | cey of PBurham and Sam'l. Whittlesey of Wallingford. They were brothers in law. Being related to Charles ii'hnm\cnv of Boston they represented | the tberal theology of that time, with tendencies toward Arminianism, 1 have been unable to secure.any carly eymbols from Wallingford. The nearest resemblance 1o the Ar- |ticles that 1 am seeking to” iden- tity, 48 found fn the Waterbury Chureh, from “A Book of Records in the First Church of Christ in Water- | Lury™ 1701, In Anderson's History of | Waterbury they are said to date from the pastorate of Kev. Mark Leaven- worth, 1740179 They do not av- pear to be dependent upon the Ar- cles that we been tracing. e Arminian clause to which our a tention i directed is in this form: “We oelieve that repentance of sin, ! faith in Jesus Christ and now obedi- ence are eonditions and qualifications of eternal Life,” The Covenant, which I have only recently obtained is brief | and simple, and does not appear to have affected the Kensington Cove- nant, Rev, Benoni Upson was a native of Waterbury, and Mark Leavenworth, the Waterbury minister is the first mentioned member of the council of ordination at Kensington in 1778, It | 8 hardly to be questioned that Kene | sington is chiefly indebted to this| source for the Articles and that they were introduced at this time, follow- ing the break caused by the div of the parish, the death of the fe minister, Bamuel Clark, and the de pression of the Revolutionary War Moreover our oldest is entitle o8 consulted have ision me copy e of Faith of the Ecclesia Kens And yvenant en, the v #e documents | North | g NEW BRITAIN that, temory of My Articles of ene it 1 vitad ons of ants, ng, Still Explodes and Sets and p police man, at that 1at God happy stat You beliove t nad ina nkind e 1 mscl hut that ther t his only o us to God: and and a tedeemers pur- v orey 1ty oifered in t adj 1 but all others punishment And you do now, as fu : wovour God portion for. for your IFe A for your Saviour emer, and of the Holy your belief and practice And you dedicals yours to vour Soyve ver; of God of ('h and Ghost and Pather Son of ( ther Ao now openly Bive to he emnly and Wp yourself and forever It posed of by his provi eternally saved in the Gospe! way; promisiog by amsistance of t olessed Bpirit, that 1 live sober v, righteously and gediy, all the days of your life And as the ordinary conveying grace and the biessings of the Itedemption to the men 18 in and by his word and ordinances, you will make it your care and study | te walk by this rule attend upon God and draw near to him, In all the ordinanccs of the Goxpel and ways of his ingtitution;—Herein joining yours | self with this Church #o long as God, in his providence shali give you o portunity, snbhmitting yourself to th watch, discipline and *government Christ therein regularly administored, that so you may be edified and built up unto eternal life, Thus you profess and promise— (giving your unfeigned and consent,) do then ive communion and fe ying that you and w find grace 4o be faithful, Artieles of [I“aith and Covenant, Kensington (probably 1779) (sub- stantially the as Southington 1779, and resembling Articles at Wal- arbury somewhat earlier.) Yon that hut one God, subsisting in threc Father, and are all possible wholly and his to be his—t guided by Hpire ruled by his la nee, to be v, dis. and to be o You w way of Gol's soule of to of sont you inte onr p may rec owsl both wam and per-1 Holy believe there is one sons, the ®on Ghoet, in whom tectiona, That things by teme Governow of al That the Holy word of God, and are a perfe alth and manncrs That God made originally enstamped knowle is all up and , and I8 worlde God made nphe the the Scriptures are t rule of ht and his couEncsa man uprig on him m &in he juent on of f and co state d by vath plunged himse ¥ his posterity into a timated x blind, weard the scions. 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