Robert Robinson (Baptist)

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 authored many published works in his lifetime, his work on baptism, History of Baptism and Baptists, appearing the year of his death. His many written works have been collected, and include Arcana, or the Principles of the Late Petitioners to Parliament for Relief in the Matter of Subscription (1774), and A Plea for the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ in a Pastoral Letter to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Cambridge (1776). He was also author of the hymns, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (1758), which he wrote at age 22 after converting to Methodism, and Mighty God, While Angels Bless Thee (1774) which was set to music by organist John Randall of Cambridge University.