Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Source texts
For my history AS level I'm studying Oliver Cromwell. When I was doing a past paper I came across a source text which was taken from a letter written by Cromwell to his brother in-law telling his that his son had died. Upon reading the letter it sounded like he didn't care and he spent half the letter boasting about his victory. However in a different book I found the complete letter, and the tone was completely different from what was put across in the source text. Cromwell gave God the glory for his victory and comforted his sister and brother in-law in the fact that their son had died well and that he was a great soldier and a man of God who they would meet again in Heaven. Cromwell also Sympathized with them as he writes of how he also had lost a son to the war a year ago and God had helped him through.
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Yup. Amazing what history textbooks distort in order to promote their own worldview.
Matthew Henry said, commenting on Matthew 5:11, that "there is no evil so black and vile that it has not at one time been falsely said of Christ and His followers". He was right - we need to be careful to find out the full picture when studying figures like Cromwell, who secularists have a motive for hating.
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