The life of Oliver Cromwell

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Page 88 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion ; for it is time that thou have mercy upon her ; yea, the time is come.
Page 94 - O God, the Father of heaven ; have mercy upon me, keep and defend me. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world ; have mercy upon me, save and deliver me.
Page 131 - Method,fuitable to the meaneft Capacity, for the full underftanding of that incomparable A'rt, as it is now taught by the ableit School-Matters in City and Country.
Page 56 - Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 83 - When thou with rebukes doft chaften man for fin, thou makeft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity.
Page 66 - I do, in the presence and by the name of God Almighty, promise and swear, that to the uttermost of my power, I will uphold and maintain the true reformed protestant Christian religion in the purity thereof, as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to the uttermost of my power and understanding, and encourage the profession and professors of the same...
Page 89 - Bifliops and Curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine fet forth Thy true and lively Word, and rightly and duly adminifter Thy holy Sacraments : And to all Thy people give Thy heavenly grace; and...
Page 51 - ... Antarctic Pole, Their treasure safe, and all their vessels whole, In sight of their dear country ruin'd be, Without the guilt of either rock or sea ! What they would spare, our fiercer art destroys, Surpassing storms in terror and in noise. Once, Jove from Ida did both hosts...
Page 45 - Government, offered me this one, this one thing, — I speak as thus advised, and before God; as having been to this day of this opinion; and this hath been my constant judgment, well known to many who hear me speak: — if,
Page 56 - ... after he comes thither: and that from thence he be committed to prison in Bridewell, London, and there restrained from the society of all people, and kept to hard labour till he be released by the Parliament: and, during that time, be debarred of the use of pen, ink, and paper, and have no relief but what he earns by his daily labour.

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