 You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light; I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true : I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me.  The Quarterly Review - Page 1271856Full view - About this book
 | England - Great Britain - 1845 - 478 pages
...was now more strongly directed to his past life ; in a letter to a relative, in 1G39, he says : — " You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I lived in and loved darkness, and hated the light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true. I hated godliness ; yet God had mercy... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1845 - 588 pages
...dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it : — blessed be His Name for shining upon so dark1 a heart as mine ! You know what my manner of life hath been. Ob, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...light. One beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it : — blessed be His Name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine ! You know what...true : I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. O the riches of His mercy ! Praise Him for me ; — pray for me, that He who hath begun a good work... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...Henry Cromwell) Mrs. St. John, wife of St. John, afterwards Solicitor-General. Therein he says :—" You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived...true : I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. O the riches of his mercy !" And even these words may mean no more than that he had not always had... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 548 pages
...in a letter to his "beloved cousin, Mrs. St. John," dated Ely, 13th Oct., 1638, in which, he says : "You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I...true, I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me." Now this is either a piece of cant, or an admission of former improprieties ; the Rev. Mark Noble,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...in a letter to his "beloved cousin, Mrs. St. John," dated Ely, 13th Oct., 1638, in which, he says : "You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I...chief, the chief of sinners. This is true, I hated godhness, yet God had mercy on me." Now this is either a piece of cant, or an admission of former improprieties... | |
 | Theology - 1846 - 512 pages
...wonderful change wrought in him by religious convictions. " You know," he says, writing to his cousin, '' what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and...and hated light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners etc." Noble, one of Oliver's biographers, remarks, that he finds in these expressions " clear evidence... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1846 - 506 pages
...wonderful change wrought in him by religious convictions. " You know," he says, writing to his cousin, " what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and...and hated light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners etc." Noble, one of Oliver's biographers, remarks, that he finds in these expressions " clear evidence... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 514 pages
...His light. One beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it ; blessed be His name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine ! You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I have lived in and loved darkness and hated light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners. Oh, the riches... | |
 | 1846 - 536 pages
...His light. One beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it ; blessed be His name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine! You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh l I lived in and loved darkness : I was a chief — the chief, of sinners. This is true. I hated godliness... | |
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