"What here they f.innd — Freedom to worship God."
The only book of Robinson's writing was entitled Jus- tijication of SepuntCwn fioin the Church of England,
published in 1851. He died March II, 1625. See Alli- bone, Diet, of Brit, and A nier. A itthors, s. v. ; Chalmers, Biof/. Diet. s. v.; Sprague, Annuls of the Amer. Pulpit, I, \. (W. P. S.)
Robinson, John (2), bishop of London, was born at Cleasby, Yorkshire, in 1650, antl was educated at Ori- el College, Oxford. He was chaplain to the English ambassailor to Sweden in 1683, and subsequently am- bassador there himself. He returned to England in 1708, in 1710 became bishop of Bristol, and in 1714 was transferred to London. He was minister plenipotenti- ary at the Treaty of Utrecht, and one of the commis- sioners for finishing St. Paul's Cathedral. He died in 1 723. He published, .4 n A ccount of Sweden (3d ed. 1717, 8vo) : — Sermon on Benefits, etc., of Christ's Kingdom (Lond. 1714, 8vo), and others. See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uth. s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop, Bibllog. s. v.
Robinson, John (3), D.D., a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Mecklenburg County, N. C, Jan. 8, 1768. His college course was pursued at \^'innsborough, S. C. He studied under the care of the Orange Presbytery, was licensed to preach April 4, 1793, and was by the presbj-tery directed to visit Dupin County, where he re- mained seven years. In 1800 he became minister of the Church in Fayetteville, but removed in 1801 to Pop- lar Tent. In 1806 he was induced to return to Fayette- ville, where he resumed pastoral labors and his classical school. In December, 1818, he returned to Poplar Tent, where he passed the rest of his life, dj'ing Dec. 14, 1843. Dr. Robinson was a man of consistent and elevated pi- ety, large benevolence, firmness of purpose, courage, and punctuality. He published a Eulogy on Washington. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, iv, 113.
Robinson, John (4), D.D., an English clergj'man, was graduated at Christ College, Cambridge, and waa minister of Ravenstondale, Westmoreland, and master of the free grammar-school there. He published, a Theo- logical, Biblical, and Ecclesiastical Dictionary (Lond. 1815, 8vo) -.—The Proper Names of the Bible (ibid. 1804, 12mo) : — besides a number of works for schools. See Al- ii bone. Diet, of Brit, and A mer, A uthors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s. v.
Robinson, John (5), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, Aug. 14, 1801. He was converted in his fourteenth j'ear, and came to the United States in 1818, uniting soon after with the Church in Fishkill, N. Y. In 1823 he moved with his parents to South Sodus, Wayne Co., where he la- bored, with a great revival as a result. After working un- der the presiding elder for two years, he was in 1832 re- ceived on trial as an ordained deacon in the Genesee Conference. In this and in the East Genesee Confer- ence he labored a short time previous to his death, in Starkey, Yates Co., Jan. 9, 1868. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, 1868, p. 155.
Robinson, Jonathan N., a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Suftolk County, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1816. He joined the Church April 10, 1838, was licensed to preach March 14, 1840, and after a course of preparatory study was received on trial in the New York Conference, June 16, 1844. He went to his last charge in 1853, was attacked with hem- orrhage of the lungs, which became so aggravated that he died, Nov. 6, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1859, p. 153. .
Robinson, Moses, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Burlington, Vt., April 26, 1815. His parents were poor, and he was dependent upon his own exer- tions to gain an education. He graduated at IMiddle- bury College in 1839, studied theologv in Union Semi- nary, New York city, was licensed by New York Third Presbytery in 1842, and was ordained by Salem Presby- tery in 1843 as pastor of the cliurch at Washington, Ind. He labored subsecpiently at Wadsworth, O., then at
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Enosburg, Vt., and for tlie last ten years of liis life at Steamboat Kock, la. lie died Aug. 31, ISGo. See Wil- son, Presb, Hist. Aliiumac, I80G, p. 223. (J. L. S.)
Robinson, Ralph, a Presb\'terian minister, was born in Scotland, \\'iiKlham Co., Conn., l\Iarch 12, 1780. His father and family removed to Dorset, Vt., where Ralph spent the earlier part of his life at agricidtnre. He pur- sued his preparatory studies under the care of Rev. Will- iam Jackson, of Dorset, paying his board and tuition by hislabor; graduatedatJMiddlebury College inl808; stuii- ied theology with Rev. Holland Weeks, of I'ittsford ; was licensed to ]ireach by the Rutland Association in 1809, and for about a year acted as home missionary, preach- ing in Malone, N. Y., and in two or three towns in Ver- mont. In 1810 he was ordained and installed as pastor of two churches, viz. the Congregational Church in Granville, Vt., and the First Congregational Church in Hartford, N. Y. In 1822 he was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church, Marshal, Oneida Co.; in 1828 of the Church in New Haven ; in 1830 of the Church in Pulaski, where he remained sixteen years; in 18'16 he returned to the New Haven Church and remained seven years; in 185-1 he went to the Church in East Mexico, and in 1858 to the Presbyterian Church in Constantia. Thus we have fifty years of uninterrupted ministerial labor — a life itself, which, from its nature, must have made a mark for eternity on hundreds of souls. He died May 14, ISlio. Mr. Robinson was an intelligent and earnest preacher and defender of the New England or Edwardian theology, a pioneer in temperance and anti-slavery reform, and an earnest promoter of all the benevolent causes of the Church. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 180-1, p. 317; also The Congregational Quarterly, Boston, July, 18(53; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyelop. Bibllog. s. v. (J. L. S.)