The works of John Robinson, pastor of the pilgrim fathers
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The works of John Robinson, pastor of the pilgrim fathers
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- Robinson, John, 1575?-1625; Allen, William, 1784-1868; Waddington, John, 1810-1880; Ashton, Robert
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- 1851
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- London : J. Snow
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- Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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- English
- Volume
- 1
I. Memoir. Dr. Allen's Descendants of Robinson. Essays, or, Observations divine and moral. Defence of the doctrine propounded by the Synod of Dort.--II. A justification of separation from the Church of England, against Mr. Bernard's invective, entitled the Separatist's schism.--III. A just and necessary apology. Two letters on Christian fellowship. On religious communion, private and public. The people's plea for the exercise of prophecy. On the lawfulness of hearing ministers in the Church of England. A letter to the Congregational church in London. An appeal on truth's behalf. An answer to a censorius epistle. A catechism. Appendix: The church in Southwark, by Rev. John Waddington. The exiles and their churches in Holland
SCC #11,522 is part of the Tanis collection
SCC #11,522 is part of the Tanis collection
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July 2, 2019
Subject: Like Gold Ore
Subject: Like Gold Ore
The thousand pages of Robinson's writings are like gold ore: some work to digest, but worth the digging. They are the basis for freedom in America today as we know it today. Freedom of speech to criticize church and state leaders, freedom of religion to worship in any manner or not at all without loss of voting or property rights, freedom of all men and even female heads of household to vote, an equal vote for all, I found in volume 3 chapter 8, in extensive Biblical detail, and summarized in a catechism elsewhere in volume 3. My documentary about all this is at www.1620.US.
What makes this challenging:
1. It's old English. Fortunately spellings have been modernized, it being an 1851 edition. But writers used to write LONG sentences, with a rich vocabulary.
2. Robinson is writing a response to Church of England leaders whose writings we do not have. In that sense they are like reading the letters of Paul in the New Testament: we have to think backwards to estimate what he is responding to.
3. Some words have changed meaning. When in doubt, I need to look up words in Johnson's Dictionary, published over a century after Robinson but the first English dictionary.
4. Some verses quoted by Robinson read a little differently than modern translations; even differently than the King James Version which was published about midway through Robinson's writing career, and was NOT the Pilgrim's (Separatists') version of choice. So to be sure I looked up verses in the Geneva translation, and also looked up the Geneva notes which were part of Robinson's citations.
Remember that Robinson wrote in a time when freedom of speech or religion was often fatal. The Pilgrims found safety only in untamed America. A vote for all? Maybe 5% of English men voted. Only "freemen" and church members. And the Pilgrims instituted a wide open forum on "sabbath" afternoons where reasoning and interaction skills could mature. That degree of reasoning and interaction is what spread across America's legislatures, though in our time with little freedom to talk about God or the Bible, but which gradually disappeared from America's churches.
But it's right there in the Bible. We don't have to guess whether America was indeed founded as a Christian nation, or whether similarities between early U.S. laws and Scripture are mere coincidence: in the Works of John Robinson, we can read the very verses upon which our principles were founded, and the reasoning by which they were interpreted.
My enthusiasm and gratitude for what our first ancestors gave us led me to build a parade float modeled after the Mayflower, with www.1620.US/Freedom Reborn" on the front sail, "Mayflower" on the rear sail, and on the sides of the ship, "They got freedom of speech and religion, and a vote for all, from the Bible".
What makes this challenging:
1. It's old English. Fortunately spellings have been modernized, it being an 1851 edition. But writers used to write LONG sentences, with a rich vocabulary.
2. Robinson is writing a response to Church of England leaders whose writings we do not have. In that sense they are like reading the letters of Paul in the New Testament: we have to think backwards to estimate what he is responding to.
3. Some words have changed meaning. When in doubt, I need to look up words in Johnson's Dictionary, published over a century after Robinson but the first English dictionary.
4. Some verses quoted by Robinson read a little differently than modern translations; even differently than the King James Version which was published about midway through Robinson's writing career, and was NOT the Pilgrim's (Separatists') version of choice. So to be sure I looked up verses in the Geneva translation, and also looked up the Geneva notes which were part of Robinson's citations.
Remember that Robinson wrote in a time when freedom of speech or religion was often fatal. The Pilgrims found safety only in untamed America. A vote for all? Maybe 5% of English men voted. Only "freemen" and church members. And the Pilgrims instituted a wide open forum on "sabbath" afternoons where reasoning and interaction skills could mature. That degree of reasoning and interaction is what spread across America's legislatures, though in our time with little freedom to talk about God or the Bible, but which gradually disappeared from America's churches.
But it's right there in the Bible. We don't have to guess whether America was indeed founded as a Christian nation, or whether similarities between early U.S. laws and Scripture are mere coincidence: in the Works of John Robinson, we can read the very verses upon which our principles were founded, and the reasoning by which they were interpreted.
My enthusiasm and gratitude for what our first ancestors gave us led me to build a parade float modeled after the Mayflower, with www.1620.US/Freedom Reborn" on the front sail, "Mayflower" on the rear sail, and on the sides of the ship, "They got freedom of speech and religion, and a vote for all, from the Bible".
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