...light. One beam in a dark place bath 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. 0 the riches of His mercy ! Praise Him for me ; — pray for me, that He who hath begun a good work...

...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. 0 the riches of His mercy ! Praise Him for me ; — pray for me, that He who hath begun a good work...

...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...Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light; / was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true: I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. O the...

...letter was written to his cousin, Mrs. St. John, containing Cromwell's reference to his early life — " Oh I lived in and loved darkness and hated light; I was a chief, a chief of sinners" — which some of our historians have taken too literally, for their own credit...

...they do not positively exclude it. At the age of thirty-nine he writes to his cousin, Mrs St. John : " You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived...hated light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners." So, indeed, said St. Paul. And in the mouth of an earnest Puritan this phrase from Scripture refers,...

...mite. The Lord accept me in His Son, and give me to walk in the light. . . . Blessed be His name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine ! You know what my manner of life hath been. I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light. ... I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. O,...

...life 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." ' It is not...

...back on that period long afterwards he wrote : " 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." Carlyle, on the strength of Warwick's Memoirs, attributes this spiritual straggle to a splenetic and...

...Mrs. St. John, Cromwell confided to her the story of this crisis in his life. " You know," he said, " what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and...true, I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me." Even now the struggle was not ended. " I live in Meshec, which they say signifies Prolonging ; in Kedar,...

...to his cousin, the wife of Oliver St. John, in 1638. "Oh, I lived in darkness and hated light; I was the chief of sinners. This is true; I hated Godliness, yet God had mercy on me." Seriously to argue from such language as this that Cromwell's early life was vicious, is as monstrous...