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    Satisfaction to the students , as well as to his worthy colleague , and to command not merely the qsteem but the vetieratioti of both ; His gentleness of disposition was acconiparired # itH siich a dignity in his look arid deportment as to maintain hi ^

    authority , and secure order and regularity , more effectually than woixls could do . Dr . Ashworth , in his funeral sermon for Mr . Clarfcy ex > presses his sense of his worth , and his importance to this institution , in the following w&rds : — When the academy wai removed to Daventry ^ he kindly continued in it for five years ; and I take pleasure in acknowledging ' , in this public manner , that his friendship , his abilities , arid his prudent counsels , wer 6

    of essential service ^ and mainly contributed to the reputatioii and success , whatever they have been , vtoth which that iii $ fi ~ tution has been conducted /' Having discovered ah inclination to apply himself more fully to the services of the Christian ministrv , Mr . Clark was invited

    by the congregation at the Old Meeting in Birmingham to Be joint pastor with the Rev . Mn William Ho well ; and he t £ * moved thither at Midsummer in the year 1757 . In what manner he conducted hinlself in that situation cannot be better expressed than in Dr . Ashworth ' s own words , iii the above discourse . After a brief account of the fbfirier part

    of his life , to his removal to Birmingham , the Doctor adds—* - iC And here I might naturally close tne detail . I need not tell you , that the heart of his colleague hath safely trusted in him / and that they have lived together , for more than twelve yeate , in the most entire harrnony , friendships and confidence . I

    taeed not tell you , hovv he * preached the word in season , arid out of season *•—what pains he took to know the state of his flock , and how assiduously he attended to all the cases which might more especially demand a pastor ' s care—how constantly ' aiid affectionately he attended the sick— ' -hovy diligently he sought out the distressed- —how liberally he imparted to them of the substance with which God had blessed him—aiid with

    what spirit he entered into all schemes of public charity , especially for the relief of the sick and the instruction of the poof . I need not tell you with how much condescension and affability he , who was courted by the learned and polite , and knew how to relish their coitipany , conversed with the p 6 orest and most

    illiterate ; esteeming those ( as I have often heard him say ) hfe happy days , which he spent in disedtirsing with theiii drf £ e ! Rgiofus subjects , with a freedom which some persom m hi ^ litk life are neither krclined to use nor alkrCv . ** I hof > e I Aeed n ^ t reftifirid you who ard ebrt ^ mg upo n ibfa

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/3/