 | 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...Son, and give me to walk in the light — and give us to walk in the light, as He is the light ! . . . blessed be His Name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine ! " l Certainly he must have dreamed of becoming a saint as well as a king, and aspired to salvation... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1883 - 310 pages
...that enlightem th our blackness, our darkness. I dare not say lie hidcth His face from me. He giveth me to see light in His light. One beam in a dark place...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 —... | |
 | James Allanson Picton - Great Britain - 1883 - 548 pages
...that enlightenrth our blackness — our darkness. I dare not say He hideth His face from me. He giveth me to see light in His light. One beam in a dark place...refreshment in it. Blessed be His name for shining on so dark a heart as mine.''— 0. C. to Mrs. St. John, October 1038. ' later letters and his practice... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 264 pages
...speaks of himself as having been exceedingly guilty. ' You know,' he wrote some 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.' Something of... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1886 - 414 pages
...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." 1 It is not... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1888 - 248 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Allanson Picton - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...dare not say Hn hideth His fuce from me. Ho giveth me to see light in His light. One heam in a (lurk place hath exceeding much refreshment in it. Blessed be His name for shining on so dark a heart aa mine.''— 0. C. to Mrs. St. John, October 1638. later letters and his practice... | |
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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. 
