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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Frederick William Robertson

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Frederick William Robertson
Age: 37 †
Born: 1816
Born: February 3
Died: 1853
Died: August 15
Preacher
Theologian
London
England
F. W. Robertson
F. W. R.
Reverend Frederick William Robertson
Worldliness
Earnestness
Transient
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God
Sacred
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