Clarke, Samuel (2)
Clarke, Samuel
a Nonconformist, was born in Warwickshire, 1599; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and after preaching as an evangelist at Shotwick, and Coventry, and at Warwick (where he was chaplain to the earl), he became minister of Bennet Fink, London. He was ejected in 1662, and lived in studious retirement until his death in 1682. His chief works are Marrow of Ecclesiastical History (Lond. 1675, 2 vols. fol.); A General Martyrology (Lond. 1677, 3d ed. fol.); Mirror for Saints and Sinners (Lond. 1671, 2 vols. fol.); Medulla Theologies (1659, fol.). Hook, Eccles. Biography, 4, 79; Calamy, Nonconformists’ Memorial, 1, 83.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Clarke, Samuel (1)
a celebrated English Orientalist, probably born in Northamptonshire in 1623, was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree of A.M. in 1648. In 1650 and 1658 he was master of a boarding-school at Islington, near London, during his stay at which place he assisted in correcting and publishing Walton’s Polyglot Bible. He died at Holywell, Oxford, Dec. 27, 1669. Among his works, are, Varice Lectiones et Observationes in Chaldaicam Paraphrasim (in the above Polyglot, vi, 17):Scientia Metrica et Rhythmica (Oxon. 1661, 8vo). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Clarke, Samuel (2)
an English divine, was born about 1626, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He early applied himself to the study of the Scriptures, and died Feb. 24, 1701. His Annotations on the Bible (1690, fol.), printed together with the sacred text, was the great work of his life. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.