However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKEHowever, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKEHe who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKEHe will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
ADAM CLARKEVerse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
ADAM CLARKEAll abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKEThey 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 CLARKEMan may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
ADAM CLARKEIt 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.
ADAM CLARKELet 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 CLARKEThis is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
ADAM CLARKEPrayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKEThere is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKEAnything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKERemember 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.
ADAM CLARKEPrayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
ADAM CLARKEDeath 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.
ADAM CLARKE