Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 3Chapman and Hall, 1850 |
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... Regiment of Tenants round him , ' For Christ's Crown and Covenant ; and never since had they any noble National act which it was given them to do . Growing desperate of Christ's Crown and Covenant , they , in the next generation when ...
... Regiment of Tenants round him , ' For Christ's Crown and Covenant ; and never since had they any noble National act which it was given them to do . Growing desperate of Christ's Crown and Covenant , they , in the next generation when ...
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... regiment . Colonel Whalley , who was then nearest to the Major - General , did charge very resolutely ; and re- pulsed the Enemy , and killed divers of them upon the place , and took some prisoners , without any considerable loss ...
... regiment . Colonel Whalley , who was then nearest to the Major - General , did charge very resolutely ; and re- pulsed the Enemy , and killed divers of them upon the place , and took some prisoners , without any considerable loss ...
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... regiment , Major Hamilton ; a Lieutenant - Colonel , and divers other Officers , and per- sons of quality , whom yet we know not . Indeed this is a sweet beginning of your business , or rather the Lord's ; and I believe is not very ...
... regiment , Major Hamilton ; a Lieutenant - Colonel , and divers other Officers , and per- sons of quality , whom yet we know not . Indeed this is a sweet beginning of your business , or rather the Lord's ; and I believe is not very ...
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... regiment must mount and march straightway ; his and various other regiments march , pouring swiftly to the left to Brocksmouth House , to the Pass over the Brock . With overpowering force let us storm the Scots right wing there ; beat ...
... regiment must mount and march straightway ; his and various other regiments march , pouring swiftly to the left to Brocksmouth House , to the Pass over the Brock . With overpowering force let us storm the Scots right wing there ; beat ...
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... regiments added to them , did much heighten their confidence , if not presumption and arrogancy . - The Enemy , that night , we perceived , gathered towards the Hills ; labouring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick ...
... regiments added to them , did much heighten their confidence , if not presumption and arrogancy . - The Enemy , that night , we perceived , gathered towards the Hills ; labouring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick ...
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affairs answer Army Battle blessing Bulstrode called Christ Colonel Committee of Estates Commons Journals Commonwealth Commonwealth of England consciences Council Covenant Cromwell's dear desire Doon Hill Dunbar Dundas Edinburgh Castle Enemy England farther fear fight Fleetwood foot forces give Glasgow Godly Gospel Governor hand hear heart hope horse House humble servant Ireton King Kirk Lambert Letter liberty Lieutenant-General London Long Parliament Lord General's Lord hath Lord Protector Lord's Major-General Malignants marched ment mercy Ministers Mosstroopers Musselburgh Newspapers in Cromwelliana Nicholas Briot night Officers OLIVER CROMWELL Oliver's Parliament of England Parliamentary History Party Pentland Hills persons poor pray preach Pride's Purge prisoners Protector regiments rest Right Honourable Robin Montgomery Royalist Rump Parliament Scotch Scotland Scots sent September soldiers Speaker Stirling Strahan things thou thought Thurloe tion truly unto wherein Whitlocke William Lenthall Worcester word
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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.