Some Account of the Reverend Thomas Robinson, M.A.: Late Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, and Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge : with a Selection of Original LettersSherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1916 - 470 pages |
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... habits , conversation , and avowed opinions widely different from those of the greater part of his contemporaries . I persuade myself that I shall perform a service not unacceptable to the reader , if I endeavour to trace the progress ...
... habits , conversation , and avowed opinions widely different from those of the greater part of his contemporaries . I persuade myself that I shall perform a service not unacceptable to the reader , if I endeavour to trace the progress ...
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... habits more decidedly the result of religious impressions . He was pe- culiar , we may believe , as a boy ; thought- ful , obedient , laborious even to a fault ; for he would read when he should rather have played . The first strong ...
... habits more decidedly the result of religious impressions . He was pe- culiar , we may believe , as a boy ; thought- ful , obedient , laborious even to a fault ; for he would read when he should rather have played . The first strong ...
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... habits ; to his solid judgment , and to his firm integrity . To him that order- eth his conversation right , I will show the salvation of God . " Let my ... habit to study a 66 • portion of the Greek Testament every day , 18 SOME ACCOUNT.
... habits ; to his solid judgment , and to his firm integrity . To him that order- eth his conversation right , I will show the salvation of God . " Let my ... habit to study a 66 • portion of the Greek Testament every day , 18 SOME ACCOUNT.
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... habit . He usually kept some devotional book on his table , in which he read a few pages occasionally , at different parts of the day , as he might find a quarter of an hour to spare . So early had he learned the lesson of husbanding ...
... habit . He usually kept some devotional book on his table , in which he read a few pages occasionally , at different parts of the day , as he might find a quarter of an hour to spare . So early had he learned the lesson of husbanding ...
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... habit singly considered , that Mr. Robinson obtained his richness of spiritual knowledge . He constantly attended the prayers read twice a day in the college chapel , and on Sundays went also twice to the university church ; sometimes ...
... habit singly considered , that Mr. Robinson obtained his richness of spiritual knowledge . He constantly attended the prayers read twice a day in the college chapel , and on Sundays went also twice to the university church ; sometimes ...
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Page 251 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 258 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 365 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works : otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace : otherwise work is no more work.
Page 59 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 74 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 295 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Page 103 - Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.
Page ii - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page ii - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 371 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that none of them were of us.