If ye strike not at the root, the branches that appear to be broken will bud again, and that more quickly than men can believe, with greater force than we would wish. History of Scotland - Page 110by Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1845Full view - About this book
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1840 - 500 pages
...hand, is too remarkable to be omitted. " Benefits of God's hands received, crave that men be thankful, and danger known would be avoided. If ye strike not...believe, with greater force than we would wish. Turn your een* unto your God. Forget yourself and yours, when consultation is to be had in matters of such weight,... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1864 - 448 pages
...hand, is too remarkable to be omitted. "Benefits of God's hands received, crave that men be thankful, and danger known would be avoided. If ye strike not...believe, with greater force than we would wish. Turn your eeu 2 unto your God : forget yourself and yours, when consultation is to be had in matters of such... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...a letter to Cecil which still remains, had recommended her being put out of the way, telling him, " If ye strike not at the root, the branches that appear to be broken will bud again, and this more quickly than man can believe, with greater force than we could wish." On the day on which... | |
| Elizabeth Warren - Reformation - 1867 - 352 pages
...characteristic letter to Cecil. " Benefits of God's hands received," he said, "crave that men he thankful, and danger known would be avoided. If ye strike not...broken will bud again, and that more quickly than man can believe, with greater force than we would wish. Turn your eyes unto your God. Forget yourself... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1869 - 620 pages
...that astute politician to ensure the death of Queen Mary: "if ye strike not at the root," he says, " the branches that appear to be broken will bud again,...quickly than men can believe, with greater force than we could wish." (Ibid, page 500.) When Mary was forced to seek an asylum with her bitterest enemy, in... | |
| John Hosack - Scotland - 1869 - 616 pages
...of January a remarkable letter was addressed by Knox to Cecil, in which he warns the secretary that "if ye strike not at the root, the branches that appear...quickly than men can believe, with greater force than we could wish." 4 '" On the same day the regent also addressed a letter to Cecil, informing him that Nicolas... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1873 - 758 pages
...it tell its own tale. " Benefits of God's hands received," Knox writes, "crave that men be thankful, and danger known would be avoided. If ye strike not...believe, with greater force than we would wish. Turn your een (eyes) unto your God ; forget yourself and yours, where consultation is to be had in matters of... | |
| Alexander Wilmot - Reformation - 1883 - 208 pages
...afterwards. -can be best judged by his own words. " If ye strike not at the root, the branches which appear to be broken will bud again, and that more...quickly than men can believe, with greater force than we can wish." * This letter was sent to England by the Regent, and at the same time he demanded that Mary... | |
| Marjory G. J. Kinloch - Scotland - 1888 - 350 pages
...the Earl of Northumberland, we find John Knox writing in an enigmatical and gloomy letter to Cecil, "If ye strike not at the root, the branches that appear...again, and that more quickly than men can believe. . . . Turn your een unto your God. . . . John Knox, with his one foote in the grave."2 The Regent's... | |
| John Hosack - 1888 - 128 pages
...length awakened Elizabeth to 1 On the 2d of January, Knox addressed a letter to Cecil, in which he says, "if ye strike not at the root, the branches that appear to be broken will bud again." On the same day Murray also addressed Cecil, stating that he was about to send Nicolas Elphinstone... | |
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