...than were their opponents. " I raised such men," said he, " as had the fear of God in before them, as made some conscience of what they did : and from that day forward, I must say to you they were never 34 a TUtlar Diarist. beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy, they beat continually."...

...conscientious and godly men would ever be able to encounter the gentlemen who fought for the King. And so he raised ' such men as had the fear of God before them,...conscience of what they did, and from that day forward they were never beaten.' This should teach them to own men who were religious and godly, that is to...

...could in any Continental country have recruited 20,000 or 30,000 men who, in his sense of the words, " had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did." Certainly it would have been impossible anywhere but in Britain to collect a warrior host of whom every...

...religion;" the nobles of King Charles by the children of the Eternal King. Such men Cromwell sought out. "I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did; and from that day forward I must say to you they were never...

...do something in it, I did so, and truly I must needs say that to you (impute it to what you please), I raised such men as had the fear of God before them,...forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually." The character given of the...

...views. Looking back on his military activity, he said, with justifiable pride, on April 18, 1657, ' I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward they were never beaten.' Cromwell...

...ardent in the ranks as in the command. He began at once, as he related afterwards in a speech, to enlist "such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did," and, as he could add with perfect truth, "they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against...

...mor.e than to any one else is due the formation of a body of cavalry of which he himself said, " They had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did." During the year 1643 the Parliament lost ground; and was deprived of two of its ablest supporters,...

...from Fabian to Jeffrey. On the choice of men Cromwell gives us the grand test of moral force, saying, "I raised such men as had the fear of God before them,...forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten. . . . And truly this is matter of praise to God, and it hath some instruction in it, to own men who...

...else you will be beaten still." What sort of spirit this was, Cromwell tells us in his own words: " I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did; and from that day forward they were never beaten ". He drilled...