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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... kind also : but the conciousness that I was stating truth , and was stating it without the least intention of inflicting a wound any where , has made me bold in encountering the obloquy which such statements may possibly excite . I It ...
... kind also : but the conciousness that I was stating truth , and was stating it without the least intention of inflicting a wound any where , has made me bold in encountering the obloquy which such statements may possibly excite . I It ...
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... kind ; and as furnishing a pleasing evidence to this important truth , that the student who makes God his comforter , will in Him find repose from the weariness of study , and from the fretful feverishness of ambition . His conversation ...
... kind ; and as furnishing a pleasing evidence to this important truth , that the student who makes God his comforter , will in Him find repose from the weariness of study , and from the fretful feverishness of ambition . His conversation ...
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... kind and of no ordinary measure , in thus rejecting advice solicitations and voluntary offers of service , which could scarcely fail to mote him to honour . " 66 pro- Before we follow him into the discharge of his ministerial office ...
... kind and of no ordinary measure , in thus rejecting advice solicitations and voluntary offers of service , which could scarcely fail to mote him to honour . " 66 pro- Before we follow him into the discharge of his ministerial office ...
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... kind of argument that he vindicated this practice , to the end of his life , with much zeal and spirit . He always gave a decided preference to the old version in comparison of the new ; but he did not choose to adopt either exclusively ...
... kind of argument that he vindicated this practice , to the end of his life , with much zeal and spirit . He always gave a decided preference to the old version in comparison of the new ; but he did not choose to adopt either exclusively ...
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... kind . When it was told him that all the people were gone from his congregation to hear Mr. Robinson at All Saints ; " I wish they were , " said he , " for then I might go too . " He removed this objection however , by engaging a curate ...
... kind . When it was told him that all the people were gone from his congregation to hear Mr. Robinson at All Saints ; " I wish they were , " said he , " for then I might go too . " He removed this objection however , by engaging a curate ...
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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.