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Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
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Birth: | 1709 |
Death: | 1773 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Clergyman |
John Clayton was an English clergyman. He studied at Manchester Grammar School, and Brasenose College, Oxford. He acted as chaplain to Darcy Lever, LL.D., high sheriff of Lancashire in 1736, and published the assize sermon which he preached at Lancaster in that year. In 1740, he was elected one of the chaplains of the Manchester Collegiate Church, and twenty years later was appointed a fellow there.
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