Joseph Clarke (priest) explained

Joseph Clarke (died 1749) was an English cleric and academic, known as a controversialist. He was particularly concerned to oppose followers of Samuel Clarke (no relation).^[1]

Life

The son of Joseph Clarke, D.D., rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, he was educated at Westminster School. He was then a student at Magdalene College, Cambridge, under Thomas Johnson. He was elected a fellow of his college, proceeded to the degree of M.A., and died after a long illness on 30 December 1749. His funeral sermon, preached in the parish church of Long Ditton on 4 January 1751, by the Rev. Richard Wooddeson, M.A., master of the school at Kingston-on-Thames, was printed at London, in 1751.

Works

His works are:

• Treatise of Space, 1733.
• A Defence of the Athanasian Creed, as a preservative against Heresy.
• A full and particular Reply to Mr. Chandler's Case of Subscription to Explanatory Articles of Faith, &c. 1749.

He also edited Daniel Waterland's Sermons on several important Subjects of Religion and Morality, 2 vols. Lond. 1742, 2nd ed. 1776.

References

Attribution

Notes and References

1. Book: Knud Haakonssen. The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. 23 March 2012. 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-86743-6. 716.