...us before God to follow him no farther than he ' followed Christ ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of His, to be ready...ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord had yet more truth and light to break forth out of his Holy Word. He took occasion also miserably to bewail...

...ht. followed Christ, and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of His to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry." As compared with some of the utterances of his Puritan contemporaries and successors this is the language...

...still much grace to reveal. Robinson, Edward Winslow wrote in Hjpocrisie Unmasked, told the church 'he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word', for it was 'not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such Antichristian darkness,...

...other tendency. Edward Winslow's account of this "wholsome counsell" 63 given by Robinson records that: He was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to breake forth out of his holy Word ... For, saith he, It is not possible the Christian world should...

...New England, he reminded them that their dissent from Anglican orthodoxy was justified: "The Lord has more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word. ' ' The belief that "God has yet further light to shed upon his revelations" has been a constant theme...

...he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any...and light yet to break forth out of his holy word. 148 Clare Cross who has Robinson leading the Pilgrims from Amsterdam to New England in 1618!—a triad...

...he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any...truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.148 Clare Cross who has Robinson leading the Pilgrims from Amsterdam to New England in 1618! —...

...Spirit. In John Robinson's words of farewell to the Pilgrims, "I am verily persuaded the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word." To have this hope, this great expectation, does not mean that we go so far as the Shakers, who were...

...he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident that the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word. He went on to bewail...

...soul?"55 John Robinson, addressing the Pilgrims on the eve of their voyage to America, claimed that he was "very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word."56 The sheer energy of the Puritans is impressive. They were activists to the very core of their...