berti de BistorUt ffybernetuitm excerptm»^ and te 1* bellus de Admirandii B. CuthberH VirttO&m, hy B^ nald of Durham, both published l^ the Svxrtees S«» ty. There are two modem memoirs of St. CadAn- the late Rev. James Rainess 8t. Cuthbert (Do^ 1828), and the Very Rev. Monsignor C. Eyre's /Na^ of St. Cuthbert (Lond. 1849)."-^hambcT8, ~ diOyB.y.; Butler, Livet o/J3amt$, ICarcfa SO; Heai| Reat-Encyldop. xix, 874.
Cuthites. See Cuth.
Cutler, Benjamin Clarke, D.D., a miniitr ^ the Protestant Episcopal Church, waa boni in Rox)«t Mass., Feb. 6, 1798, and died in Brookl3ai, N.T., U 10, 1868. On his mother's side he was descended ^ the Huguenots. His religious character devck'^ early ; it was marked by no epoch of anddeo tnai tion, but at the age of eighteen, two yaan aftsr li confirmation, he became a decided Chiteum. He mediately began to study for the mioistiy, and ated with high honor at Brown Uni-rersity in VS. He discharged the functions of the ministiy years in Quincy, Mass. ; one year in LeesUng, Ti two years in New York as a city missionary, and years as rector of St Ann's Church, Brooklyn, is; preacher he was pre-eminently evmngeUcal, and m pastor remarkably successful. He was one of originators and most active promotezs of the ary work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was a Low-Churchman, and was deeply grieved br rise of Puseyism, and its introduction into this ooostiT. He wrote of it as *' the reigning heresy of incipient ^ manism." In 1843 he visited England for the saks d his health. On his return the vessel atmck a shed a the harbor of New York, and for twelve hoars it Ut«R^ heavily in a storm. Always after he obeerred tb» c- niversary of that day as an occasion of special thasb* giving. Dr. Cutler was a chronic in valid. Befinb went to college he was thought to be in a decline, fis4 his life was one long battle with i<l— >fM^. His cmI illness was protracted and very distressing. He vtaU often say, **the under-currents are all peace." He left no published works except a few occasional de- courses and a volume of sermons, which are good cp»- imens of direct, fervent Gospel preaching.
Cutler, Manasseh, LL.D., a Congngati£«il minister, was bom in KiUingly, Conn., May ^ 1T4S, graduated at Yale 1766, studkd law, and was adw^ ted to the bar, but in a short time devoted bimsdf to the study of theology. He was installed pastcf a Hamilton, Mass., Sept 11, 1771. After the Revobrtiea the Ohio Company chose him agent for the pnrclMV of land in the West, and Washington offered him tbi honorable position of judge of the U. S. Court in tbi North-west Territory, but he declined. He was ek<i- ed to Congress m 1800. Dr. CuUer devoted fainsrif largely to botany, and to the study and practice ef medicine, but retained his pastoral relatioii vntil te death, July 28, 1828. He was made LL.D. by Yale ia 1789. He published a number of articles on acieatiie subjects and a few occasional sermons. — l^iragne, it- nob, ii, 15.
Cutler, Timothy, D.D., minister of the EnglU Church in America, was bom at Charleetown, M^sjl, in the year 1683, and graduated at Harvard in V^ He was educated and ordained for the Presbyteiiu mhiistiy, and in 1710 was installed pastor of the C««- gregational church in Stratford, Cimn. He becaoe president of Yale College in 1719, at the request of tfce trustees; but on the day after CommeDcement ii 1772, a paper was presented to the dergy and olhes assembled in the college libraiy, signed by the recta and one of the tutors, together with several of thi neighboring ministers, in which they say : ** Sohm «f us doubt of the validity, and the rest are folly p«- suaded of the invalidity, of Presbyterian prdinatjoa ■ opposition to EpiscopaL'' In October following a te
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JBlon took place in the college library, the principal «ft.kera being the rector and Mr. Samael Johnson terwards Dr. Johnson, of Hartford) on the one side, \ governor Saltonstall on the other. The resalt 3 ^hat the rector declared himself confirmed in his Isoopal prodiTitiee, and in October following the isfcees voted " to excose the Bev. Mr. Cutler from all "tlier service as rector of Tale College." He went !Kxi£(land in July, 1722, to procure Episcopal ordina- T&, -which he received the following year, with the ^ree of D.D. from both Oxford and Cambridge. In 23, on his return, he was appointed missionary to e Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and be-« zne rector of Christ Church, Boston. In that sta- >ii lie died, Aug. 17, 1765. He published several oc- &ioiial sermons. — Sprague, Afmab, v, 50.
Outting (in thb Flesh), expressed technically by ■nip, MVe<(Lev. xix, 28), or nD-nto, sare'teih (Lev. xi, 6, where the cognate verb Id'^b, tanOfy is used I tlie same connection), a gtuk or incision (Sept Iv- >/i.tC9 Vulg. uicifura) in the flesh (^taS) ; also by ^"lai, gedud^ (Jer. xlvii, 37), a Ctf< in the skin (e. g. le liand, as there ; the verb ^HA, gadad'^ occurs in tie same sense, with reference to the ceremonies of looming, Jer. xvi, 6 ; xli, 5 ; xlvii, 5, or as a part of iol worship, Dent, xiv, 1 ; 1 Kings xviii, 28) ; and by *^^|7f haahaf, a "mark" punctured on the person Lev. xix, 28) ; compare the dsmoniac in Mark v, 5, oLTaKOTrntiv iavrdvy "cutting himself** with stones. Vjnong the prohibitory laws which God gave the Is- velites there was one that expressly forbad the prao- ice embraced in those words, viz. " Te shall not make my cuttings in your flesh for the dead** (Lev. xix, 28). [t is evident from this law that such a species of self- njlicted torture obtained among the nations of Canaan ; md it was doubtless to guard his people against the adoption of so barbarous a liabit, in its idolatrous form, BL8 well as to restrain despe^te grief (comp. 1 Thess. iv, 13 ; see Macdonald, Tntrod. to the Pentateuch^ Edinb. 1861, p. 113), that God led Moses to reiterate the pro- hibition: "They shall not make baldness upon tiieir heads, neither shall they shave off the comer of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh** (Lev. xxi, 5 ; Dent, xiv, 1). (See J. 6. Michaelis, De ind- tura propter mortuoSf F. ad 0. 1733.) See Cobneb.