412 LIVES OF THE PORITANg. and love one another." He died in great peace and comfort, February 22, 1634, aged eighty years. During the last year of his life, the good old man was censured by Bishop Wren, for nonconformity ; but death happily delivered him from all his troubles.. He was a man of great learning and piety, an orthodox and peaceable divine, and an avowed enemy to Popery andArminianism. He published " A Commentary of Christ's Sermon upon the Mount," and two " Catechisms." HUGH CLARK, A. M.-This excellent personwas born at Burton7upon-Trent in Staffordshire, August 15, 1563, and educated first in Jesus college, Cambridge, then in the university of Oxford. Having finished his studies at col- lege, he first settled in the ministry at Oundle in Northamp- tonshire. Here he found the people in a state of most deplorable ignorance and profaneness, living in the constant profanation of the Lord's day, by Whitsun-ales, morrice- dancing, and other ungodly sports. For a considerable time he laboured to convince them of their sins, and to reclaim them from their evil ways, but without any prospect of success. Though God visited several of the ringleaders of vice, by successive :reniarkable judgments, they still persisted in their profane sports. They seemed to have made a covenant with death, and to have been at agreement with hell. At length, however, there was a pleasing alteration. They began to take serious heed to the ministry of the word. Their lives became reformed ; and many were called to a saving knowledge of the gospel. During Mr. Clark's abode at this place, he experienced Several remarkable providential deliverances, among which was the following :-Having, in his sermon on the sabbath- day, announced the just judgment of God against certain particular sins, to which the people were :much addicted, the next morning a luSty young man came to his house, wishing to see him. Mr. Clark, having invited him into his chamber, anti, knowing his vicious, character, sharply teproved him, and warned him of his awful danger ; and God wrought so effectually upon his heart, by this pointed and faithful dealing, that the man, falling down on his knees, and crying for pardon, pulled out a dagger by which be had determined to murder him.. 46 I came hither," said MS Remarks, p. 895.
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