The Works of David Clarkson, vol. 2
Overview
David Clarkson is one of the most prominent Puritan ministers of the seventeenth century, contemporary of John Owen and John Bunyan. He worked closely with Owen, pastoring Owen’s congregation after his death. He was known for combining sound doctrine with practical application. Various sermons and publications by Clarkson are included in this resource. Themes of the Reformation and other Protestant thinkers run throughout Clarkson’s writing, establishing him among the Puritan fathers.
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- Contains 13 sermons
- Introductory Scripture for each sermon
- Offers practical application
- The New Creature
- Christ’s Gracious Invitation to Sinners
- Man’s Insufficiency To Do Anything of Himself
- Against Anxious Carefulness
- Praying for Everything
- God’s End in Sending Calamities and Afflictions on His People
- The Conviction of Hypocrites
- Soul Idolatry Excludes Men Out of Heaven
- The Children of God Should Not be Partakers with Others in Their Sins
- Unconverted Sinners are Darkness
- Of Christ Seeking Fruit, and Finding None
- The Lord Rules Over All
- Sinners Under the Curse
Top Highlights
“Obs. Secret idolaters shall have no inheritance in the kingdom of God. Soul idolatry will exclude men out of heaven as well as open idolatry. He that serves his lusts is as uncapable of heaven as he that serves, worships idols of wood or stone.” (Page 300)
“Now, when we make other things our chief aim, or main design, we set them up in the stead of God, and make them idols; when our chief design is to be rich, or great, or safe, or famous, or powerful; when our great aim is our own ease, or pleasure, or credit, or profit and advantage; when we aim at, or intend any [thing] more, or anything so much, as the glorifying and enjoying of God: this is soul idolatry.” (Page 301)
“No entering the kingdom except ye be converted, Mat. 18:3. Now conversion is, the apostle tells us, 1 Thes. 1:9, a ‘turning from idols;’ not only from those with which men commit open, but secret idolatry. Till the heart be turned from idols, till this secret idolatry be renounced, there is no conversion; and without this no salvation, no inheritance in the kingdom of God, &c.” (Page 305)
“Other things may be loved, but he will be loved above all other things. He is to be loved transcendently, absolutely, and for himself; all other things are to be loved in him and for him.” (Page 302)
“5. Love. That which we must love we worship as our God; for love is an act of soul-worship” (Page 302)
- Title: The Works of David Clarkson, vol. 2
- Author: David Clarkson
- Publisher: James Nichol
- Publication Date: 1864
- Pages: 535