You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Num 35:23 The verse used to justify the execution of Charles I as a 'man of blood'.Charles said that under his divine right as king no court could call him to account. Cromwell and parliament believed in a higher law.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world
dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice rise like a
fountain for me night and day.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
_Idylls of the King_ [1859-1885];
"The Passing of Arthur," Line 415
Thus say the common people that know him:
"A saint abroad, and a devil at home."
--John Bunyan (1628-1688)
_The Pilgrim's Progress_ [1678], Part I
Again, methinks you have great cause for questioning,
unless your holiness is uniform. I mean, if your life is
angelic abroad and devilish at home, you must suspect
that it is at home that you are really what you are.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 50 [1904]
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