Elder John Clark On Means

1804-1882

"In the first volume of Zion’s Advocate Clark wrote:

“...the gospel ‘is a means made use of by God in quickening dead sinners, enlightening blind eyes, unstopping deaf ears, softening hard hearts, and making of enemies friends’ (Vol. VIII. p. 437) 

(comments upon Romans 1: 16. For more citations as the above, see my posting Elder John Clark On Means.

Same volume; page 339, upon Acts XXVI, 18, he says: 

"Now, though this is all the work of the spirit, by whom only the eyes of the understanding are enlightened; yet this is ascribed to the apostle, not as the efficient cause, but as the instrument and means, through preaching of the gospel, which the spirit of God would, and did, make use of.’”  

Clark also wrote:

"The people of God were in Christ before the world was, according to that choice, and they are in him in time by faith – become children of God by faith in Christ; and hence, some are in Christ, in this sense, before others, as the apostle stated on a particular occasion. (Rom. 16:7.)"

(Taken from my posting Was Elder John Clark a neo Hardshell?)

Clark states what was the original view of the founding fathers of the "Primitive Baptist" denomination. We are the true primitive or old Baptists here. The above is proof of it.