| English periodicals - 1879 - 562 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 le mistaken ! " But apart from this general consideration, another answer may be given to the question... | |
| John Cunningham - Scotland - 1882 - 942 pages
...going on, Cromwell wrote a letter to the Commissioners of the Kirk of Scotland, in which he asked — " Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. There may be a covenant made with Death and Hell. I will not say yours was so ; " and, finally, he... | |
| John Mackintosh - 1884 - 538 pages
...the people, have laboured to build yourselves in these things ; wherein you have censured others ' upon the Word of God '. Is it, therefore, infallibly...may be mistaken. Precept may be upon precept, line upon line, and yet the Word of the Lord may be to some a word of judgment : that they may fall backward... | |
| Mowbray Morris - Generals - 1887 - 260 pages
...Cromwell adjure them in that war of words which followed the sterner conflict on the heights of Dunbar, " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Though the number and variety of the dissentients in England were far greater than in Scotland, where... | |
| Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1888 - 248 pages
...arms as he was, he laboriously argued with the godly men of the Kirk as with brothers in the Lord. " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Are you sure, he argues, that this your league with wicked and carnal men is a covenant of God ? "I... | |
| Aeneas James George Mackay - Fife (Scotland) - 1890 - 312 pages
...the practical application of his speeches. He addressed the Scottish ministers in memorable words : " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Like other users of strong language, he never dreamt that he might be mistaken also himself. It was... | |
| Alexander Taylor Innes - Presbyterian Church - 1892 - 372 pages
...grammatical : only sometimes there was a pathetic outburst that came near to the heart of the matter. " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken ! " We sincerely thought otherwise ; and the Commonwealth, recognising the painful honesty which afflicted... | |
| Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 pages
...precept," which Cromwell addressed to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in August, 1650; "Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. "§ And Dr. Hook, anxious to judge fairly in the face of strong predilections, says, that Cromwell,... | |
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - Canada - 1893 - 722 pages
...adroit and good-humored use of the bun mot of Oliver Cromwell to the Scottish Gdneral Assembly : " I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." . No doubt Mr. Ewart regards the writer, whom he calls " one of the bitterest enemies of the Separate... | |
| William Leslie Davidson - Theism - 1893 - 528 pages
...result ? Cromwell spoke words of deepest wisdom when he gave the famous advice to the General Assembly : "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken " . We may take it as a fundamental axiom, that truth is not the exclusive property of an individual,... | |
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