...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...laboured to build yourselves in these things ; wherein you have censured others ' upon the Word of God '. Is it, therefore, infallibly agreeable to the Word...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...