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    BIOGRAPHY.

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    BRIEF MEMOIRS OF THE REV . MR . SAMUEL CLARK , LATE ' MINISTER AT BIRMINGHAM . MR . Samuel Clark had the honour to descend from a family which , for many generations ^ had been eminent for learning and piety ; who had also been distinguished by their conscientious attachment to the cause of non-conformity , for which some of them were no inconsiderable sufferers . One of these was Mr . Samuel Clark , of St . Bennet Fink . London , the

    author of various useful publ ications ^ particularl y * " The Martyrology / ' The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History / ' and * Lives of many eminent Persons . " Another was the son of the former , Mr . Samuel Clark of Aylesbury , who wrote the Annotations

    on Scripture ; a grandson of whom ^ and the father of the sub - ject of these memoirs ., was the Rev * Samuel Clark , D . D . many years a dissenting minister at St . Alban ' s . He was the patron of Dr . Doddridge in his early years , who preached his funeral sermon , in which may be seen a high and deserved character of him . He published a valuable piece on ** The Promises of God /* and some useful discourses on CQ Irresolution in Religion / 1 Among many excellent qualities , he was distinguished by the pains he took with the young persons under his pastoral care , and in the education of his own children .

    This his eldest son , who was early inclined and devoted to the Christian ministry 9 had peculiar advantages under the instructions and from the example of such a father ; so that he went to the academy at Northampton , under the direction of Dr . Doddridge , furnished with a good store of classical learning , as well as maxims of prudence and religious principles ; and the long intitx > acy which had subsisted between his father

    and his tutor , secured him every advantage that he could enjoy in that situation ; which he improved to the utmost , so as to make the greatest proficiency in every thing that could qualify him for appearing with reputation and usefulness in the station which he was designated to fill . His pious father , though ad- *

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    No . XII . ] DECEMBER . £ Voi . I .

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/1/