 | Auguste Forel - 1911 - 580 pages
...The words of Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Scottish Church should ever ring in his ears: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." "Before Darwin, the theory; after Darwin, the factors." — HF Osborn. "The idea of Evolution is the... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1911 - 630 pages
...Britain. He seems to have taken the measure of the Scottish clergy : " I beseech you," he wrote, " in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken ". But he was baffled in negotiation and strategy alike. His "army of heretics and blasphemers" was... | |
 | James King Hewison - Covenanters - 1913 - 650 pages
...deluded them with the idea that their policy was established ' upon the Word of God.' He inquired, ' 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.'3 Two days later... | |
 | Percy Herbert Osmond - 1913 - 428 pages
...(From the portrait »t l.'aiu- Coilive, Caml'ritii.'e). '50 CHAPTER VI THE RESTORATION ARMISTICE i' I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." OLIVER CROMWELL [to the Presbyterians]. " It was a judgment upon them to be denied the free liberty... | |
 | John Adams - Study skills - 1915 - 302 pages
...Socratic method with ourselves. On a famous occasion Cromwell made the appeal to certain persons : "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Is it too much to hope that the readers of this [148] book have no need to have such a prayer addressed... | |
 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - Democracy - 1918 - 538 pages
...he should seriously take into account Cromwell's words spoken to the seventeenth-century fanatics : "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." In the immense majority of cases the eccentric individual is mistaken : the presumptions are overwhelmingly... | |
 | Anniversaries - 1918 - 184 pages
...Samuel xvi. 8. September 3 Battle of D unbar, 1650. Battle of Worcester, 1651. Oliver Cromwell, d. 1658. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell, Part VI, Letter cxxxvi, by CARLYLE. CROMWELL'S LAST PRAYER. Lord, though I am a miserable... | |
 | William Cook Mackenzie - Covenanters - 1923 - 548 pages
...expression. The note of irony in his remonstrance with the General Assembly is delicious. The phrase : " I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken " is paralleled by others in his letter to the Governor of Edinburgh Castle(9th September 1650), in... | |
 | John Ritchie - 1927 - 358 pages
...tried persuasion to bring the Presbyterian ministers to reason, beginning with his celebrated words : "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken . . . there may be a Covenant made with Death and Hell " ; though he added, to leave room for amicable... | |
 | John Buchan - Scotland - 1928 - 444 pages
...has to answer for itself to God — depend upon you. Your own guilt is too much for you to bear. ... Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken. There may be a Covenant made with Death and Hell.' » As his path became... | |
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. 
