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      • Robert Robinson (27 September 1735 – 9 June 1790) was an English Dissenter, influential Baptist and scholar who made a lifelong study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism.
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  2. Robert Robinson (27 September 1735 – 9 June 1790) was an English Dissenter, influential Baptist and scholar who made a lifelong study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism.

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    Robert Robinson, born September 27th, 1735, and died June 9th, 1790, was an English Dissident, prominent Baptist, and thinker who made a lifelong examination of the history of Christian Baptism. He was the author of the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," which he wrote after converting to Methodism at age 22. Robinson was just a small boy wh...

    Robert Robinson decided to go hear the Methodist preacher George Whitefield. To cover his "weak" urge, he suggested the boys go with him and heckle the gathering. Whitefield preached on the text: "O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" (Matthew 3:7). Robert left in dread, under a deep sense of sin that lasted f...

    Finally, at the age of twenty, Robert made peace with Godand immediately became a Methodist preacher. Two years later, in 1757, he wrote a hymn that expressed his joy in his new faith: This was printed the next year. At first people thought that Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, a strong Methodist, had written this. Eventually, it was le...

    Prone to wander, Robert was. He left the Methodists and became a Baptist. Later on, having become a close friend of Joseph Priestly, he was accused of becoming a Unitarian. Priestly and other Unitarians denied the full divinity of Christ. However, in a sermon he preached after supposedly becoming a Unitarian, Robinson declared that Jesus was God an...

  3. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing was written by Robert Robinson (1735 – 1790). Robinson was a Baptist scholar and hymn writer. His story is an interesting one of a man destined for lawlessness and doom but saved from himself and given a ministry of service as a Christian lecturer and pastor.

  4. Jun 16, 2019 · Some think that Robert Robinson, who wrote the line, “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,” did in fact wander from Jesus by the end of his life. Did he? Here We Stand: 31 Reformers, 1 Per Day.

  5. Aug 10, 2024 · Robert Robinson entered the world in 1735 in Suffolk, England, his childhood marked by hardship and loss. At the age of eight, he lost his father to death, leaving him and his mother to navigate the harsh realities of 18th-century poverty.

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  6. Robert Robinson (27 September 1735 – 9 June 1790) was an English Dissenter, influential Baptist and scholar who made a lifelong study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism. He was also author of the hymns "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee", the former of which he wrote at age 22 after ...

  7. Feb 5, 2019 · The testimony of Josiah is a call for recommitment to the Lord. Here’s a story about recommitment. It was a bright Sunday morning in 18th century London, but Robert Robinson’s mood was anything but sunny.