| Elizabeth Rundle Charles - Great Britain - 1868 - 520 pages
...last year, in a letter, to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. " I beseech you," he wrote, "in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken" XIII. (Dlibe's ^eollections. Continued. |HE last battle of the Civil Wars was fought. Or rather the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1869 - 436 pages
...kind prevail not upon us. The Lord hath not hid His face from us since our approach so near unto you. Your own guilt is too much for you to bear : bring...the Word of God, all that you say ? I beseech you, 1 Our people. ยป The Scotch Paper ' To the Under-Officers,' &c., received on the last day of July ;... | |
| Great Britain - 1873 - 966 pages
.... . . The Lord pity you !" He has the appalling presumption to lecture even the General Assembly. " Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." But on the whole, the tenderness with which he addresses the Scots is wonderful, considering how he... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
.... . . The Lord pity you !" He has the appalling presumption to lecture even the General Assembly. " Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." But on the whole, the tenderness with which he addresses the Scots is wonderful, considering how he... | |
| John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1873 - 488 pages
...opponents say is " infallibly agreeable to the Word of God ; " and then follows the grand precept : " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." l One standing and predominating element in the controversy was the lay preaching, which had become... | |
| Elizabeth Rundle Charles - English fiction - 1877 - 528 pages
...last year, in a letter, to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. ' I beseech you,' he wrote, ' in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken' " CHAPTER VII. OLIYE'S RECOLLECTIONS. |]HE last battle of the Civil Wars was fought. Or rather the... | |
| Peter Bayne - Great Britain - 1878 - 534 pages
...event ' ? . . . The Lord pity you ! " He has the presumption to lecture even the General Assembly. "Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." But on the whole, the tenderness with which he addresses the Scots is wonderful, considering how he... | |
| Peter Bayne - Great Britain - 1878 - 530 pages
...event ' ? . . . The Lord pity you ! " He has the presumption to lecture even the General Assembly. " Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, hi the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." But on the whole, the tenderness with... | |
| English periodicals - 1879 - 556 pages
...Cromwell himself, in reasoning with Scotch Presbyterianism, was provoked to the emphatic exclamation, " I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken ! " But apart from this general consideration, another answer may be given to the question how impartiality... | |
| William Maxwell Blackburn - Christianity - 1879 - 752 pages
...rebuking him as a covenant-breaker and provoker of divine judgments. Nor did he fail in sharp replies: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Their mistake was in thinking that he had come to break down presbytery, to give "the Sectaries" a... | |
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