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" 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. "
History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the ... - Page 52
by Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1899
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...Cromwell : among others, 1lampden, Sir Matthew Hoynton, Sir William Constable, Sir A. Hasilrigge, &c. the chief of sinners. This is true; I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me."* But the time was approaching, when the melancholy arising from compunctious feelings, was to be chased...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 546 pages
...know what my manner of life hath been. O, 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"." Which words undoubtedly imply some personal vice or other to which he had been addicted, though we...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...know what my manner of life hath been. O, 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 meV Which words undoubtedly imply some personal vice or other to which he had been addicted, though...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...know what my manner of life hath bine. O, 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." This is only a part of a letter. The writers that wish to establish this charge of irregularity deem...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...what my manner of life hath been. Oh, 1 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.' The present Mr. Oliver Cromwell argues that no such meaning is to be inferred from the words, but that...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, 1 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.' The present Mr. Oliver Cromwell argues that no such meaning is to be inferred from the words, but that...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 616 pages
...know what my manner of life bath bine. O, 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." i ' Allowing,' with family partiality, ' for the accustomed use in those times of scripture language...
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The History of Huntingdon: From the Earliest to the Present Times

Robert Carruthers - Huntingdon (England) - 1824 - 424 pages
...know what my manner of life hath bin ; O, I lived in and loved darknesse and hated the light. I was a chief, the chief of. sinners. This is true, I hated godliness yet God had mercy on mee." * Children of tJte Protector Oliver Cromwell. 1. Robert, baptised at St. John's Chuvoh, Huntingdon,...
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The history of Huntingdon, from the earliest to the present times [signed R.C.].

Robert Carruthers - 1824 - 424 pages
...know what my manner of life hath bui ; O, I lived in and loved darkHesse and hated the light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true, I hated godliness yet God had mercy on mee." * Children of the Protector Oliver Cromivell. i 1. Robert, baptised at St. John's Church, Huntingdon,...
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1843 - 488 pages
...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." A mind, thus impressed, could not be indifferent to the proceedings of the times; but again directing...
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