Remains of Alexander Knox, Esq Volume 4 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: matter of deep and awful doubt. If, however, this doubt inspired habitual practical anxiety to make my calling and election sure, I should take even this to be a sign of something radically good. Even this consolation I cannot yet grasp. May God lead me by a way which I know not! I have met Adam Clarke (whom you once mentioned to me) here in Bristol. I believe I told you that he is a countryman of mine; and I have been gratified to find him a very respectable kindof man?wonderfully well versed in biblical learning, and appearing neither deficient nor superficial upon any subject on which we conversed. I was the more pleased with this, as I happened to be one of the links in that almost providential chain which has led him into his present situation. He is also a philosopher; and how he has either found time to acquire the knowledge he possesses, or money to purchase his very well chosen little library, and also his philosophical apparatus, is to The following letter, which reflects equal credit on the writer and on the person to whom he writes, is curiously characteristic, and deeply inter, esting. It is one of the very few from Dr. Adam Clarke to Mr. Knox which I have found among a mass of miscellaneous papers. I have given it, as illustrative of the honest warmth with which Dr. Clarke avows at once his obligations, his feelings, and his sentiments. After the fears which Mr. Knox had entertained in 1799, with what pleasure must he have read the cordial profession of a better creed, at a time when the increasing wisdom of two-and twenty additional years had matured his friend's ecclesiastical principles. " Mr. Cooke's, Ormond Quay, " Dear Mr. Enox, June 11, 1821. You have done me sufficient honour in stating your desire to see me, and your intention of coming into ...