VirginiaHuguenot
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David Clarkson, English Puritan (February 1621 - June 14, 1686), was a notable minister of the gospel whose writings have left a profound legacy. He tutored John Tillotson and others at Clare Hall. He was ejected for nonconformity in 1662. He contributed a couple of the Cripplegate Sermons: 1) What Christians must do, that the influence of the ordinances may abide upon them; and 2) The Doctrine of Justification is dangerously corrupted in the Roman Church. Among his other sermons are: Soul Idolatry Excludes Men Out of Heaven and Public Worship to be Preferred Before Private. He served as a co-pastor with John Owen at the end of Owen's life and preached Owen's funeral sermon at which he said of Owen: "We have had a light in this candlestick, we have had a light in this candlestick, which did not only enlighten the room, but gave light to others fare and near: but it is put out. We did not sufficiently value it." When Clarkson died, his funeral sermon was preached by William Bates.
