Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarkewas a British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar. He was born in the townland of Moybeg Kirley near Tobermore in Northern Ireland...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
scripture holy duty
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
both consider fulfill gods promises word
When you read, consider that it is Gods Word which you read; and that his faithfulness is pledged to fulfill both its promises and threatenings.
air wind would-be
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
thinking names remember
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
real ignorance men
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
secret energy action
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
death father dark
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
mean ideas argument
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
real ignorance causes
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
grace sin grace-of-god
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
soul praying states
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
perfection infinite source
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
memorial degrees fame
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
angel might human-nature
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.