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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

Prayer 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 CLARKE

Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
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!
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Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Expect Gospel. Preacher Honor Jesus Jesus Christ Look Resurrection
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.
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Christ Faith Genuine Good Jesus Christ Law Love Productive Remembered Work
Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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Argument Conveying Idea Mean Multitude Notion Proper Reader Word Writer
Man 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.
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Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
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
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Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
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
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Chance Ignorance Man Nature Philosophically Real Reason Strictly
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.
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Arrived Degree Eminence Fame Memorial Person Private Public Regretted Written
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.
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Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People

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.

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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.

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