Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 3Chapman and Hall, 1850 - Great Britain |
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... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . * On Wednesday , 26th June , 1650 , the Act appointing ' That Oliver Cromwell , Esquire , be constituted Captain - General 6 ' and Commander - in - chief of all the Forces raised or to be ' raised by ...
... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . * On Wednesday , 26th June , 1650 , the Act appointing ' That Oliver Cromwell , Esquire , be constituted Captain - General 6 ' and Commander - in - chief of all the Forces raised or to be ' raised by ...
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... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . ' P.S. ' I understand since writing of this Letter , that Major - General Montgomery is slain . * Cautious David Lesley lies thus within his Line ' flankered ' from Leith shore to the Calton Hill ...
... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . ' P.S. ' I understand since writing of this Letter , that Major - General Montgomery is slain . * Cautious David Lesley lies thus within his Line ' flankered ' from Leith shore to the Calton Hill ...
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... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . * Here is the passage from Isaiah : I know not whether the General Assembly read it and laid it well to heart , or not , but it was worth their while , —and is worth our while too : In that day shall ...
... humble servant , OLIVER CROMWELL . * Here is the passage from Isaiah : I know not whether the General Assembly read it and laid it well to heart , or not , but it was worth their while , —and is worth our while too : In that day shall ...
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... humble servant , 66 66 And " DAVID LESLEY . " 92 This Declaration , done by the Kirk , and endorsed by the Estates , we shall not on the present occasion make known , even though it is brief . The reader shall fancy it a brief emphatic ...
... humble servant , 66 66 And " DAVID LESLEY . " 92 This Declaration , done by the Kirk , and endorsed by the Estates , we shall not on the present occasion make known , even though it is brief . The reader shall fancy it a brief emphatic ...
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... humble servant , · OLIVER CROMWELL . * The encampment on Pentland Hills , ' some of our tents within sight of Edinburgh Castle and City , ' threatens to cut off Lesley's supplies ; but will not induce him to fight . The gude wives fly ...
... humble servant , · OLIVER CROMWELL . * The encampment on Pentland Hills , ' some of our tents within sight of Edinburgh Castle and City , ' threatens to cut off Lesley's supplies ; but will not induce him to fight . The gude wives fly ...
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Page 9 - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way : Therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 8 - 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 26 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 26 - 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 418 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : 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 346 - 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 25 - 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 342 - 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.
Page 253 - 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 41 - If your forces had been in a readiness to have fallen upon the back of Copperspath, it might have occasioned supplies to have come to us. But the only wise God knows what is best. All shall work for Good. Our spirits are comfortable, praised be the Lord — though our present condition be as it is. And indeed we have much hope in the Lord ; of whose mercy we have had large experience.