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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God

Adam Clarke

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God
ADAM CLARKE

Apostle Follower Forward Hope Jesus Jesus Christ Man Original Patience Spirit Strong Trusting
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
ADAM CLARKE

Argument Conveying Idea Mean Multitude Notion Proper Reader Word Writer
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
ADAM CLARKE

Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Abraham Angel Expiation Human Nature Jesus Christ might People Redeemer Seed
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE

Absorbed Gift Man Must Nothing Preacher Seem
They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
ADAM CLARKE

Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
ADAM CLARKE

Christ Faith Genuine Good Jesus Christ Law Love Productive Remembered Work
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
ADAM CLARKE

Fill Filled Fullness Great Greater Thing
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
ADAM CLARKE

Chance Ignorance Man Nature Philosophically Real Reason Strictly
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
ADAM CLARKE

Expect Gospel. Preacher Honor Jesus Jesus Christ Look Resurrection
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher
ADAM CLARKE

Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKE

Accident Cause Ignorance Merely Real Signify Some Word
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
ADAM CLARKE

Happiness Infinite Infinity Merit Perfect Purchased Value
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
ADAM CLARKE

Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God

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