| Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1898 - 248 pages
...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... | |
| William Scott Douglas - Scotland - 1898 - 328 pages
...Dr. Gardiner (p. 307) for quotation of the famous adjuration to the Scots clergy, ' I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken ! t But, indeed, Dr. Gardiner also, and the editor of Hodgson's ' Memoirs ' — all three accepting... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Bible - 1900 - 968 pages
...encamped at Musselburgh, sent them that letter in which the famous sentence occurs : " I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may...Precept may be upon precept, line may be upon line," he goes on to say, "and yet the Word of the Lord may be to some a word of Judgement ; that they may... | |
| 1899 - 948 pages
...of God.' 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." But if Cromwell did his best to bring the Scots to their senses by reasonii.g, he was too good a soldier... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 526 pages
...of God.' 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 snared and be taken ! * There may be a spiritual fuluess, which the World may call drunkenness; * as in the second from them," addressed To the People... | |
| Maria Hornor Lansdale - Scotland - 1901 - 598 pages
...policy is found in a letter to the General Assembly (August 3, 1650) in which he writes: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken," advising the ministers at the same time to read Isaiah xxviii., 5 to 15. In 1660 came the Restoration.... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...standard. To the clergy Cromwell's appeal was directed in vain. " I beseech you," he wrote to them, " in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." It was the very last thing they were prepared to do. To them sectarianism was an evil to be combated... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1904 - 580 pages
...of God. 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...fall backward, and be broken and be snared and be taken.2 There may be a spiritual fulness, which the world may call drunkenness ; 3 as in the second... | |
| Alfred Plummer - 1907 - 214 pages
...God. ... 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." In dissolving the first Parliament of the Protectorate, 22nd January 1655, he said that in the Civil... | |
| Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1907 - 216 pages
...God. ... 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." In dissolving the first Parliament of the Protectorate, 22nd January 1655, he said that in the Civil... | |
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