Oliver Cromwell's Letters and SpeechesChapman and Hall, 1845 - Great Britain |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
answer arms Army believe blessing blood Broghil called Captain Castle Catholic Religion Church Clonmacnoise Colonel command Commons Journals considerable Cork Council Covenant Cromwell's Daughter Declaration desire divers dragoons Dublin Dunbar Earl Edinburgh Edinburgh Castle endeavour Enemy English Enniscorthy ESQUIRE Estates expect forces Garrison give God's Governor guns hand hath hear heart HONOURABLE WILLIAM LENTHALL hope horse and foot House humble servant Hursley Inchiquin Inhabitants Ireland Irish Kilkenny King King's Pamphlets land Lesley Letter liberty Lieutenant-General London Lord Broghil Lord Lieutenant marched Massacre mercy Munster Musselburgh Newspapers in Cromwelliana night October officers and soldiers OLIVER CROMWELL Oliver's Ormond PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND party poor pray Pusey quarters regiment resolution rest Richard Cromwell Ross Safe-conduct Scotch Scotland Scots sent shot storm Summons thereof things thither thought fit Town Tredah unto Waterford Wexford wherein Whitlocke WILLIAM LENTHALL Youghal
Popular passages
Page 172 - The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Page 186 - 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 185 - 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 56 - Being thus entered, we refused them quarter ; having, the day before, summoned the Town. I believe we put to the sword the whole number of the defendants. I do not think Thirty of the whole number escaped with their lives. Those that did, are in safe custody for the Barbadoes.
Page 159 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 186 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11.
Page 172 - Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Page 60 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Page 60 - When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head ; and every tenth man of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes.
Page 186 - Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.