FOR REPRINTING A SERIES OF THE MORE SCARCE AND VALUABLE TRACTS AND TREATISES OF THE EARLY REFORMERS, PURITANS, AND NONCONFORMISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. DAVID CLARKSON, B.D., AND SOMETIME FELLOW OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. EDITED FOR The Wycliffe Society, BY THE REV. BASIL H. COOPER, B. A., OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. WITH HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BY THE REV. JOHN BLACKBURN, CLAREMONT CHAPEL, LONDON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY BLACKBURN AND PARDON, HATTON GARDEN. MDCCCXLVI. 3-9-36g8n ADVERTISEMENT. THE REV. Richard Baxter has said, that the Rev. David Clarkson "was a divine of extraordinary worth for solid judgment, healing, moderate principles, acquaintance with the Fathers, great ministerial abilities, and a godly, upright life."a Such a testimony it is presumed will justify the resolution of the Committee of the Wycliffe Society, to collect and republish his "Select Works," which have too long shared in the concealment of their venerated and modest author, but which, it is believed, are now destined to take the important place which belongs to them in the several controversies to which they respectively belong, as they are unquestionably written with acuteness and learning, moderation and charity. |