Adam Clarke looks up, from the beginning, to the true standard of human endeavour,—the glory and approval of God Most High. Tegg and Co., owners of the Doctor's voluminous works, for their permission to reprint the excellent portrait which gives a.
THE LIFE OF THE
REV. ADAM CLARKE
BOOK I
Bene orasse est bene studuisse.” At the end of the Old Testament is the note, "June 10. At the top of the title page are the words in his handwriting: "God is love. BAPTISM, sprinkling, washing with, or immersion in water, in the name of the holy and ever-blessed.
Even then Clarke directed his honest and lively mind to a careful investigation of the Scriptures. This caught the eye of the stern overseer, in whose esteem "human learning" was a sin. Meanwhile, those philological studies, without which I could never have been an interpreter of the Septuagint and the Greek Testament, became impossible.
Clarke himself was a preacher who had never had an opportunity to listen to the great and good men of the time. On the blank side of the title page is the usual formula of receipt, signed by the secretary, Dr. Therefore give me Divine strength and wisdom: so I will be enabled to walk according to these Rules, and consequently to glorify You in the land of the living.
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As to the cases of individual conversion, the revelations of the future life will reveal more than he has been permitted to ascertain in the present. They met those days under the roof of the cottage, in the kitchen of the farmhouse. He was widely read in world and church history.
Adam Clarke, — a sort of aversion to, or a contempt of, the use of music in. In the cathedral of the latter city he spent many hours with a solemn interest, and preserved the pages of his journal with descriptive notes on its various antiquities. Death is very common to all men; and the honors of the great and the baseness of the wretch are equally invisible in the grave.
I prefer the title of servant of the Lord Jesus Christ to the glory of kings. During the time of the civil wars the tombs of several of our kings, buried in this cathedral, were broken open and plundered, and the bones thrown away. His "Introduction to the Holy Scriptures," preceded by Flindel's edition of the Bible, has a beautiful grandeur.
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Others had crows and were busily engaged in tearing down the foundations of the house. Clarke, while he was praying, and handed into his hands the channel he had brought with him. During the year he was prepared to try to establish preaching on the island of Alderney.
I climbed the rocks and came to the top of the island and thanked God for my passage. Wesley, and some of the other ministers, the hospitality of her house on their occasional visits. In the stations of the July conference, Robert Carr Brackenbury and Adam Clarke stand for Jersey and two other preachers for Guernsey.
He was a native of Jersey, and one of the first fruits of the Methodist ministry in that island. The atheistic power of the Revolution had not sufficiently subsided in the public mind to stir the Parisians enough to listen to the word of God. I thought that since we were all of one mind in the same place, we had reason to expect a glorious descent of the purifying flame.
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But the tasks of the Bristol district were so extensive and difficult that Mr. Back to Bristol tomorrow morning as we start classes at 6am and continue with short breaks all day until the end of the week.
I hesitated for a moment; but when I found my soul drawn out in pity for the multitudes, I said, 'I will go down in the name of the Lord.'Mr. Holloway, who distinguished himself a few years later by his engravings of Raffaelle's cartoons. Beneath, after the manner of the old portraits in the Magazine, is the inscription “Mr.
At present, the numerical strength of the Methodist body, under the care of the British and affiliated. He insists somewhere that the preachers in the pulpit should not exceed ten minutes in that part of the service. Imprisoned on suspicion of murder, which was afterwards fully cleared up by the surrender of the goods.
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Among these one has now been chosen as the presidential head of the Connection for the current year;. All the actions of the Conference were characterized by a purposeful aim to do everything to the highest glory of God. Clarke, with as much vigor as he had, addressed himself to the duties of the opening year.
The bloody drama of the French Revolution then unfolded scene after scene of horror. Two classes of opinion on this great crisis prevailed on our side. The term of appointment at Manchester expired in July 1793; and a new scene of labor opened up to him at the Liverpool Circuit.
The great Methodist issue of the time involved the celebration of services during church hours and the administration of the sacraments in chapels. The clergy of Bristol at first complained of the increase of their work in the. The latter, however, rejected violence against the conscience of the multitude of members who were in favor of it.
BOOKII
I cannot preach a sermon until I go to the pulpit: therefore I am bound to hang on the arm and wisdom of the Lord. Throughout his career, more than most men in the pulpit, he was an obvious preacher. From time to time these free expressions of his soul were accompanied by an unusual influence, "the demonstration and power of the Spirit." In his letters to Mrs.
Some preachers prayed with them and did not rest until they were healed. His congregations were called to the obedience of faith, not in the formulas of creeds, the decrees of councils, or the judgments of the fathers, but in the Scriptures which cannot be broken. Thus reflecting the current exercises of his intellect, his speeches had a constant freshness; they came warmly from the living heart and brought life and warmth into the heart of the hearer.
John seems to have had a broader and moving view of the love of God than Adam Clarke. As an able critic *[1] says of Augustine, in comparison with some other Church Fathers, “he had less beauty, but more power than they.” In dr. From the Norman Isles to the ultima Thule of storm-ravaged Zetlands, he revealed the glorious Gospel of the grace of God.
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At the end of the first meeting, he laid his penny (the weekly . contribution) on the table, saying: "There, thank God, I'm in class again." We soon had loud complaints from different parts of the Circle; for those who were least fit for certain places would go there. Although he had no appetite for gossip and was intolerant of wasting time, yet he was among the foremost in visiting the sick and afflicted of his flock.
In Manchester and elsewhere he became acquainted with most of the faculty in this way. The priest heard the recitation of his concerns, and formed such a good opinion of his case that he wondered if he had not already received some consoling token of the Lord's forgiving grace. At the end of the voyage, when the captain did not ask for the bag, it was still detained, and several months passed before anything was heard of it.
The guilty man now sought to banish every thought of the misery he had caused, and to drown the voice of conscience with matters and affairs. He was aware that a longer stay might inconvenience the family and spoil the good effect of the interview. The request was granted, and when he took leave of the emperor he ventured to give his sovereign the following precept: “Caesar.
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He knew that unless the early hours of the day were redeemed, his life would bear little fruit in the field of literature. Later in the day he had to attend to the calls of one duty after another, until it was time to take his customary journey to the pulpit and class work of the evening. His duties in this last respect took him to various parts of the town, and places in the suburbs that lay miles from home.
Buttress, one of the leading Methodists of Spitalfields Chapel; whose name, as preserved by his descendants to the present day, is honorably esteemed in the community to whom they have been steadfast. You may have seen small groups praying in different parts of the chapel at the same time. In this he was supported by many trustees and he also had the consent of Mr.
At one stage it was his duty to receive the dividends of the Preachers Annuitant Society. I had a large congregation in the morning, and such a sense of the presence of God rested upon us all as upon the elders. Yesterday morning I preached a long and (for me) good sermon on the purpose and design of the Lord's Supper;.
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