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    vanced in years ^ and bowed down with infirmities , lived to see him enter on the ministry in a manner which delighted his heart , but died soon afterwards .

    On the conclusion of his academical studies * such was the character he had acquired for learning , prudence , and piety , that Dr , Doddridge took him to be his assistant in the academy ; and he conducted himself in this important station so much to the Doctor ' s satisfaction , that when he was obliged by severe Illness to desist from his laborious services as a minister and

    tutor , and , on the ill-judged advice of his physicians , took a voyage to Lisbon , with a view to the recovery of his health , he committed the care both of his congregation and of the academy to Mr , Clark , who was then but twenty-three years of age .

    During the Doctor ' s painful absence from his family and flock ., he often mentioned ii to his friends , as a singular happiness to liial , that God had given him an assistant to whom he could cheerfully leave th $ care of his academy and congregation ; and ( C whose great prudence and wise disposition of affairs made him quite easy as to both . " So he expressed him- * self in a letter to a friend ; written from Bristol * , The manner in which he discharged this important trust riot Qnly gave general satisfaction , but greatly surprised all who were acquainted with it , and raised the highest idea of his ta- > lentSj and the excellent dispositions of his heart . It must not ^ however * be concealed * that though the Doctor ' s congregation

    pighly respected Mr , Clark , and thought themselves greatly obliged to him for his services cfuring their pastor ' s absence ^ be was not sufficiently popular and Calvinistical fully to satisfy the generality of them , so as to be chosen assistant to the IDoctor's successor in the ministerial part of his office , . which * it is well known , was the principal reason of the removal of the academy from Northampton to Daventry , where Mp . Caleb

    Asfyworth was then minister , whom Dr . Doddridge had warmly Recommended to succeed him , both in the academy and the congregation , and wh . o would himself have been acceptable at Jea $ t to the great majority of the people . But he knew too well the value of Mr . Clark as an assistant tutor to part with hira *

    and therefore determined to remain at Daventry , where Mr , Cl ^ rk w ^ s u sed to pre ach oxi ce in a month , with the consent of the people , who highly venerated his character , though his Strain and manner were not quite to their taste . In the aG&ckmy he conducted himself so as to give the highest * OrtOJu ' s Life of Doddridge , p . 339 .

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    618 Rev . Samuel Clark .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/2/