The Works of David Clarkson, vol. 1
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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- Provides brief biography on David Clarkson
- Contains 13 sermons
- Introductory Scripture for each sermon
- Of Original Sin
- Of Repentance
- Of Faith
- Of Living by Faith
- Of Dying in Faith
- Of Living as Strangers
- The Excellent Knowledge of Christ
- Justification by the Righteousness of Christ
- Men by Nature Unwilling to Come to Christ
- The Lord the Owner of All Things
- Hearing the Word
- Of Taking Up the Cross
Top Highlights
“You can no more repair the image of God in your souls, than a dead man can reunite his soul to his body; no more free yourselves from that antipathy to God, and inclination to wickedness, than a dead carcase can free itself from those worms and vermin that feed upon it; no more free yourselves from the wrath of God, than a dead man can raise himself out of the grave.” (Page 7)
“Natural corruption is not contracted only by imitation, nor becomes it habitual by custom or repetition of acts, but it is rooted in the soul before the subject be capable either of imitation or acting.” (Page 5)
“Comparatively. You must love Christ more than all these, more than the dearest of these, and shew you do so indeed by quitting all of them, rather than forsake, or dishonour, or displease Christ.” (Page 448)
“When the mind is so resolved on it as nothing hinders the deed but want of a call or an occasion, the Lord looks on it as if it were done.” (Page 452)
“greatest losses as well as the least; the loss of all outward things, as well as the loss of any.” (Page 449)
- Title: The Works of David Clarkson, vol. 1
- Author: David Clarkson
- Publisher: James Nichol
- Publication Date: 1864
- Pages: 510