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, 1816 - 470 pages |
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... Jesus Christ , that he must be saved . He now applied himself to the study of the scriptures with diligence and prayer ; and devoted the whole of the Lord's day to the more immediate worship of God , and to the storing of his capacious ...
... Jesus Christ , that he must be saved . He now applied himself to the study of the scriptures with diligence and prayer ; and devoted the whole of the Lord's day to the more immediate worship of God , and to the storing of his capacious ...
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... Jesus Christ . It may be , that entire change of heart , which is declared necessary in all men , has not yet taken place in you ! The obedience we approve may not yet be evangelical obedience ; a pure , uniform , and consistent conduct ...
... Jesus Christ . It may be , that entire change of heart , which is declared necessary in all men , has not yet taken place in you ! The obedience we approve may not yet be evangelical obedience ; a pure , uniform , and consistent conduct ...
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... Jesus Christ the way to God ; salvation , all of grace ; our absolute need of divine influences ; and holiness , as that fruit of faith , without which no man shall see the Lord . " His choice of subjects ; his choice of topics ; his ...
... Jesus Christ the way to God ; salvation , all of grace ; our absolute need of divine influences ; and holiness , as that fruit of faith , without which no man shall see the Lord . " His choice of subjects ; his choice of topics ; his ...
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... Jesus Christ . This society was founded in the year 1768 ; had continued nearly six years when Mr. Robinson came to Leicester ; and did not cease till one of their number was enabled , through the divine blessing , to found a weekly ...
... Jesus Christ . This society was founded in the year 1768 ; had continued nearly six years when Mr. Robinson came to Leicester ; and did not cease till one of their number was enabled , through the divine blessing , to found a weekly ...
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... Jesus for the pardon of her sins , she studied to approve herself to God , and to evince her love of the Redeemer , by a rigid attention to every relative duty , and by a calm yet persevering course of unaffected devotion . The hope of ...
... Jesus for the pardon of her sins , she studied to approve herself to God , and to evince her love of the Redeemer , by a rigid attention to every relative duty , and by a calm yet persevering course of unaffected devotion . The hope of ...
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Page 253 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 275 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 260 - 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 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 465 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 367 - 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 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 297 - 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 257 - Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference...
Page 254 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...