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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

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
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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Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
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.
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God Jesus Christ Name Particular People Person Remember Think Thinking
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
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
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
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
ADAM CLARKE

Action Allow Energies Energy Faith Happiness Secret Stagnate Trust
All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKE

Abuse Creation Creator Creature God Property Robbery Spoil Waste
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
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
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
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
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
ADAM CLARKE

Faithful Servant God Heart Honor Spirit
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
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

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.

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