Search -
An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke, Written by One Who Was Intimately Acquainted With Him From His Boyhood
An Account of the Infancy Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke Written by One Who Was Intimately Acquainted With Him From His Boyhood Author:Adam Clarke Title: An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke, Written by One Who Was Intimately Acquainted With Him From His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Life [i.e.himself]. (vol.2,3 by a Member of His Family [m.a. Smith]). Ed. by J.b.b. Clarke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Origina... more »l Publisher: T. S. Clarke Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK III. We have seen, from the preceding statement, that young Clarke had already frequently given public exhortations in different country places -- but in no case had he taken a text, though both the preachers and the principal friends wished him to do so. Conscious of his inexperience in divine things, and want of a general understanding in the Scriptures, he utterly refused to bind himself to explain any particular text in a formal way ; and left himself the wide field of exhortation. It would be well if young ministers, or those designed for the ministerial office, were equally scrupulous, not to say conscientious. Many labor on a particular text, which they treat as they were accustomed to do a theme in their school-boy exercises; and think, when they have succeeded pretty well on a few points of this kind, that they are qualified to be preachers of God's Holy Word: this is in many cases a fatal mistake both to themselves and others. In the primitive Church, there were Exhorters, as well as Preachers, Teachers, Apostles, and Evangelists / and their gift was not less necessary for the edifir tion of the Church than those of the others. However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one, and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. Adam had not as yet got what he deemed a satisfactory call to prea...« less