 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
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1871 - 306 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 630 pages
...; and, if here I may honour my God either by doing or by suffering, I shall be most glad. . . . Yon know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived...true : I hated godliness, yet God had mercy " on me." It was not long before the fervour which breaks out in these lines attracted notice in the House. "The... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...; and, if here I may honour my " God either by doing or by suffering, I shall be most glad. . . . " You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived...in " and loved darkness, and hated light ; I was a ehief, the chief of " sinners. This is true : I hated godliness, yet God had mercy " on me." It was... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1873 - 314 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... | |
 | J. C. O. - 1873 - 204 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 lived iu and loved darkness, and hated light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners ! This is true : I hated... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 422 pages
...as utterly vile in the sight of God and man. " You know," he wrote, not many years afterwards, "• what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light. I was chief, the chief of sinners. This is true, I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me."1 It is not... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 408 pages
...sight of God and man. " You know," he wrote, not many years afterwards, u what my manner of life hatli been. Oh ! I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light. I was chief, the chief of sinners. This is true, I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me."1 It is not... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Puritans - 1878 - 346 pages
...probably, find another explanation of his words. Addressing his cousin, Mrs. St. John, he says : — " You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh ! I...true ; I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. 0 the riches of His mercy ! Praise Him for me ; pray for me, that He who hath begun a good work in... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Great Britain - 1882 - 446 pages
...utterance of his own gives us nearly all that is certainly known of his way of life as a young man : " You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived...chief of sinners. This is true : I hated godliness, and yet God had mercy on me." But so said the straitest of Pharisees — St. Paul, and so have said... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1883 - 310 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...I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true ; 1 hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. Oh, the richness of His mercy ! Praise Him for me —... | |
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