Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are prefixed brief memoirs of his life and writings, Volume 21807 |
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... of Private Judgment 41 LETTER IV . On Civil Magistracy 57 LETTER V. On Innovation 71 LETTER VI . On Orthodoxy 91 LETTER VII . On Persecution 105 LETTER VIII . On Sophistry · 121 Page THE HISTORY AND THE MYSTERY OF GOOD FRIDAY 141 CONTENTS.
... of Private Judgment 41 LETTER IV . On Civil Magistracy 57 LETTER V. On Innovation 71 LETTER VI . On Orthodoxy 91 LETTER VII . On Persecution 105 LETTER VIII . On Sophistry · 121 Page THE HISTORY AND THE MYSTERY OF GOOD FRIDAY 141 CONTENTS.
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... , whose voice ought to silence all : -Render unto Cæsar , the things that are Cæsar's , and unto God , the things that are God's . Farewell LETTER V. ON INNOVATION . Laudamus veteres , sed nostris 70 On civil magistracy .
... , whose voice ought to silence all : -Render unto Cæsar , the things that are Cæsar's , and unto God , the things that are God's . Farewell LETTER V. ON INNOVATION . Laudamus veteres , sed nostris 70 On civil magistracy .
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Robert Robinson Benjamin Flower. LETTER V. ON INNOVATION . Laudamus veteres , sed nostris utimur annis . OVID . LETTER V. SIR , DON'T you recollect before the petitions LETTER V On Innovation.
Robert Robinson Benjamin Flower. LETTER V. ON INNOVATION . Laudamus veteres , sed nostris utimur annis . OVID . LETTER V. SIR , DON'T you recollect before the petitions LETTER V On Innovation.
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... innovation , and statesmen always fear , and often justly , innovations . It is not enough added he , that the whole legislature approves , the people must also be disposed to an act of this kind , and the people you know love the old ...
... innovation , and statesmen always fear , and often justly , innovations . It is not enough added he , that the whole legislature approves , the people must also be disposed to an act of this kind , and the people you know love the old ...
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... INNOVATION ? It may amuse a leisure moment , if it does not conduct a single step in life . It is readily granted that antiquity is sacred , es- pecially in religion ; that innovations are some- times dangerous , above all religious ...
... INNOVATION ? It may amuse a leisure moment , if it does not conduct a single step in life . It is readily granted that antiquity is sacred , es- pecially in religion ; that innovations are some- times dangerous , above all religious ...
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Page 116 - Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another,, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 27 - King Charles slept most of the time. When the sermon was over, a certain nobleman said to him, " It's a pity your majesty slept, for we have had the rarest piece of Hobbism that ever you heard in your life.
Page 255 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service ? that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, 35 who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 21 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 27 - I cannot think, till I be better informed, which I am always ready to be, that any pretence of conscience warrants any man, that is not extraordinarily commissioned, as the apostles and first publishers of the Gospel were, and cannot justify that commission by miracles as they did, to" affront the established religion of a nation, though it be false ; and openly to draw men off from the profession of it, in contempt of the magistrate and the law.
Page 155 - ... no form or order of common prayers, administration of sacraments, rites. or ceremonies, shall be openly used in any church, chapel, or other public place...
Page 184 - I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. . . . Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Page 133 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed GOD in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Page 37 - God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evildoers. The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.
Page 67 - Father of lights and spirits, the author as well as object of all divine knowledge, faith and worship, I do...