Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations, Volume 2Chapman & Hall, 1894 - Great Britain |
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... and no other and as for all ' ploughmen , husbandmen , artifi- 24 Scobell , Part ii . p . 197 ( 12th August 1652 ) ; see also p . 317 ( 27th June 1656 ) . cers and people of the meaner sort , ' they 1650 . 259 RETURN TO ENGLAND .
... and no other and as for all ' ploughmen , husbandmen , artifi- 24 Scobell , Part ii . p . 197 ( 12th August 1652 ) ; see also p . 317 ( 27th June 1656 ) . cers and people of the meaner sort , ' they 1650 . 259 RETURN TO ENGLAND .
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... August 1642 , at Ely or somewhere in that region ; where Parliament musters or ' surveys ' are going on , and brabbles with recusant Royalists are rife , -in one of which the excellent Mr. Sprigg has got a stroke . My Correspondent ...
... August 1642 , at Ely or somewhere in that region ; where Parliament musters or ' surveys ' are going on , and brabbles with recusant Royalists are rife , -in one of which the excellent Mr. Sprigg has got a stroke . My Correspondent ...
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... August , 2d day , 1643 . My Lord Manchester has not the power to serve me as you would [ as you wish ] for York : but I will see if I can do it for him , to serve you in my Kinsman's [ Whalley's , Desborow's , Walton's ? ] troop . I ...
... August , 2d day , 1643 . My Lord Manchester has not the power to serve me as you would [ as you wish ] for York : but I will see if I can do it for him , to serve you in my Kinsman's [ Whalley's , Desborow's , Walton's ? ] troop . I ...
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... August 1643. ' Bid three Troops go on to Downham , and come by way of Wisbeach . Tell Ireton my mind on his shooting that Spy without learning more . I like it not . His name is Nickols , I hear . It were well no news took air of it ...
... August 1643. ' Bid three Troops go on to Downham , and come by way of Wisbeach . Tell Ireton my mind on his shooting that Spy without learning more . I like it not . His name is Nickols , I hear . It were well no news took air of it ...
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... August 1643 , " says Collins13 - which I think , as " 20th August " was a Sunday , can hardly have been the exact day ! However , raise a regiment he did , and even regiments ; and here is Note of the first of them , -in Squire's ...
... August 1643 , " says Collins13 - which I think , as " 20th August " was a Sunday , can hardly have been the exact day ! However , raise a regiment he did , and even regiments ; and here is Note of the first of them , -in Squire's ...
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Page 16 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 6 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 213 - But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Page 255 - Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto...
Page 19 - In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people...
Page 20 - ... for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people ; to whom he said, " This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing :
Page 217 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not be allowed of.
Page 254 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 18 - Is it, therefore, infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say ? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Page 15 - Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.