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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... maintained , that the Articles should be subscribed in their plain and un- equivocal sense , with an holy abhorrence of every subterfuge and evasion . The influence of his religious character was much increased by his proficiency as a ...
... maintained , that the Articles should be subscribed in their plain and un- equivocal sense , with an holy abhorrence of every subterfuge and evasion . The influence of his religious character was much increased by his proficiency as a ...
Page 70
... maintained between them in private . In public , Mr. Ludlam became a constant , affectionate , and most attentive hearer of Mr. Robinson's discourses ; stand- ing up in his pew generally during the whole sermon , with the most marked ...
... maintained between them in private . In public , Mr. Ludlam became a constant , affectionate , and most attentive hearer of Mr. Robinson's discourses ; stand- ing up in his pew generally during the whole sermon , with the most marked ...
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... maintained the same doctrines in their ser- mons , but that Mr. Robinson was very in- tent upon supplying the proper application of his subject , whilst Mr. Haines left his hearers to make it . The servant maid who was waiting at table ...
... maintained the same doctrines in their ser- mons , but that Mr. Robinson was very in- tent upon supplying the proper application of his subject , whilst Mr. Haines left his hearers to make it . The servant maid who was waiting at table ...
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... was not less assiduous and exemplary , as his wife . Their income was slender , but she had always something to give . With much of worldly difficulty to discompose her , she maintained the zeal and purity 94 SOME ACCOUNT.
... was not less assiduous and exemplary , as his wife . Their income was slender , but she had always something to give . With much of worldly difficulty to discompose her , she maintained the zeal and purity 94 SOME ACCOUNT.
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... maintained the zeal and purity of a devotional spirit : her faith constant ; her hope fervent ; her love prac- tical ; her care and cultivation of her own soul unremitted . She was a most notable housewife watching over and working for ...
... maintained the zeal and purity of a devotional spirit : her faith constant ; her hope fervent ; her love prac- tical ; her care and cultivation of her own soul unremitted . She was a most notable housewife watching over and working for ...
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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.