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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Adam Clarke

He 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 CLARKE

Enable Hand Jesus Christ Pleased Prosper Satan Sin Strong
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKE

Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
ADAM CLARKE

Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Arrived Degree Eminence Fame Memorial Person Private Public Regretted Written
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
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
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
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE

Cleansed Completely Death Die Fit Glory Sanctified Sin State
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE

Consider Deeply Duty Holy Interest Read Scripture
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Absurd Air Cannot Existence God Jesus Christ Saw Wind
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

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