Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition, Volume 2Harper, 1868 - Great Britain |
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... hear , casts backward some straggling gleams ; well accordant , as is usual , with whatever else we know ; and worthy to be well believed and meditated , by Historical readers , * Thurloe's State Papers , Milon's , Clarendon's ...
... hear , casts backward some straggling gleams ; well accordant , as is usual , with whatever else we know ; and worthy to be well believed and meditated , by Historical readers , * Thurloe's State Papers , Milon's , Clarendon's ...
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... hears voices ; and would fain dis- tinguish and discriminate them . Which , in all these , is the God's voice ? That were the one to follow . My Lord General , I think has many meditations , of a very mixed , and some of a very at ...
... hears voices ; and would fain dis- tinguish and discriminate them . Which , in all these , is the God's voice ? That were the one to follow . My Lord General , I think has many meditations , of a very mixed , and some of a very at ...
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... hear a dog bark at their going ! " asserts my Lord General elsewhere . It is said my Lord General did not , on his entrance into the House , contemplate quite as a certainty this strong measure ; but it came upon him like an ...
... hear a dog bark at their going ! " asserts my Lord General elsewhere . It is said my Lord General did not , on his entrance into the House , contemplate quite as a certainty this strong measure ; but it came upon him like an ...
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... hear some unruly persons have lately committed great outrages in Cambridgeshire , about Swaffham and Bot- sham , in throwing down the works making by the Adventurers , and menacing those they employ thereabout . Wherefore I desire you ...
... hear some unruly persons have lately committed great outrages in Cambridgeshire , about Swaffham and Bot- sham , in throwing down the works making by the Adventurers , and menacing those they employ thereabout . Wherefore I desire you ...
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... hear a word or two ; have a real glimpse or two of things long vanished ; and see for moments this fabulous Barebones's Parliament itself , standing dim in the heart of the extinct centuries , as a recognizable fact , once flesh and ...
... hear a word or two ; have a real glimpse or two of things long vanished ; and see for moments this fabulous Barebones's Parliament itself , standing dim in the heart of the extinct centuries , as a recognizable fact , once flesh and ...
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Page 139 - That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 47 - 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 494 - 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 28 - You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Page 247 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her ; she shall not be moved : God shall help her, and that right early.
Page 451 - Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself : and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary : but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel ; for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Page 495 - 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 his death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 245 - LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land : thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin.
Page 52 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 407 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service ; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.