Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
Adam ClarkeIf you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, 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 ClarkeHe who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam ClarkeIt is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
Adam Clarke