 | Thomas Carlyle - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...He is the light ! He it is that enlighteneth our blackness, our darkness. I dare not say, He hideth His face from me. He giveth me to see light in His...dark a heart as mine ! You know what my manner of lite hath been. Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light ; I was a chief, the chief of sinners.... | |
 | Peter Gaunt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 156 pages
...He is the light. He it is that enlighteneth our blackness, our darkness. I dare not say, He hideth His face from me. He giveth me to see light in His...His Name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine!' We do not know the nature of this conversion experience, whether it was a sudden flash linked to a... | |
 | Ben Walsh - History - 2004 - 188 pages
...Cromwell. SOURCE 10 ^ Cromwell speaking about his faith in the 1 630s. • The Lord forsaketh me not. Blessed be His name for shining upon so dark a heart as mine. You know what my manner of life has been. I have lived in and loved darkness. I was the chief of sinners, I hated God and godliness,... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - History - 2009 - 677 pages
...This maybe what contemporaries classed as spoiling, too. Of his conversion, Cromwell himself wrote: '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... | |
 | Generals - 2006 - 36 pages
...Does it not echo the experience of John Bunyan? It speaks of the realities of Christian experience: 'One beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it.' It reveals a man who knew what he had been: 'I hated godliness,' 'I lived in and loved darkness'. What... | |
 | 1875 - 846 pages
...is in the light. He it is that enlighteneth our blackness and darkness. I do not say that He hideth His face from me. He giveth me to see light in His...beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment m it. Blessed be His name for shining in so dark a heart as mine. This is true. I hated godliness,... | |
 | Working class - 1850 - 820 pages
...blackness, our darkness. I dare not say he hideth his face from me. He giveth me to see light in the light. One beam in a dark place hath exceeding much refreshment in it : blessed be his name fur shining upon so dark a heart as mine ! You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in... | |
 | 1846 - 812 pages
...follies by Heath and others. A letter of his own, in which he says, " You know what my manner of life has been — oh, I lived in and loved darkness and hated light — I was a sinner and the chief of sinners," has been already quoted as a proof of his having lived a profligate... | |
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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. This is true; I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me. 
