...wherein you have censured others and established yourselves (as you profess) " upon the Word of God." Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.' 2 The assumption of infallibility is more insidious than we may think. We protest against it from Rome...

...arms as he was, he laboriously argued with the godly men of the Kirk as with brothers in the Lord. " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Are you sure, he argues, that this your league with wicked and carnal men is a covenant of God ? "I...

...particular instance Dr. Gardiner (p. 307) for quotation of the famous adjuration to the Scots clergy, ' I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken ! t But, indeed, Dr. Gardiner also, and the editor of Hodgson's ' Memoirs ' — all three accepting...

...these things ; therein you have censured others, and established yourselves ' upon the Word of God.' Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." But if Cromwell did his best to bring the Scots to their senses by reasonii.g, he was too good a soldier...

...Cromwell, then encamped at Musselburgh, sent them that letter in which the famous sentence occurs : " I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible...Precept may be upon precept, line may be upon line," he goes on to say, "and yet the Word of the Lord may be to some a word of Judgement ; that they may...

...Cromwell's policy is found in a letter to the General Assembly (August 3, 1650) in which he writes: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken," advising the ministers at the same time to read Isaiah xxviii., 5 to 15. In 1660 came the Restoration....

...standard. To the clergy Cromwell's appeal was directed in vain. " I beseech you," he wrote to them, " in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." It was the very last thing they were prepared to do. To them sectarianism was an evil to be combated...

...who do too much in matters of conscience, — wherein every soul is to answer for itself to God. ... Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." In dissolving the first Parliament of the Protectorate, 22nd January 1655, he said that in the Civil...

...who do too much in matters of conscience, — wherein every soul is to answer for itself to God. ... Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of...of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." In dissolving the first Parliament of the Protectorate, 22nd January 1655, he said that in the Civil...

...Sir Thomas Browne, edited by Simon Wilkiu, FLS (London, 1852) ; Urn Burial, vol. iii, pp. 4, 5. - " I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken," wrote Oliver Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland on 3rd August, 1650. — Oliver...