 But do not thou know it, for he must be master of thy child, and may have compassion of him. Be not dismayed that I died in despair of God's mercies ; strive not to dispute it ; but assure thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope...  Lord Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh - Page 170by Macvey Napier - 1853 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 658 pages
...thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope and despair live not together ; I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves, but I trust...we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. The roeicy of God is immeasurable, the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope and despair live not together ; I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves, but I trust...we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. ' The mercy of God is immeasurable, the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever... | |
 | 1839 - 882 pages
...thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope and despair live not together ; I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves, but I trust...we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. " The mercy of God is immeasurable, the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever... | |
 | John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope and despair live not together ; I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves, but I trust...we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. The mercy of God is immeasurable, the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever... | |
 | 1840 - 636 pages
...know,' says he, ' that f Letter to Sir Thomas Parry, 4th August 1603, in Cayley's Lift of Raleigh. ' it is forbidden to destroy ourselves ; but I trust...confessions of most of them had left no doubt either as to their guilt, or the certainty of their condemnation ; but, as regarded him, it was the general... | |
 | 1840 - 824 pages
...know,' says he, ' that t Letter to Sir Thomas Parry, 4th August 1603, in Cnyley's Life of Raleigh. * it is forbidden to destroy ourselves ; but I trust...resolved that Raleigh should be brought to trial with the test. The confessions of most of them had left no doubt either as to their guilt, or the certainty... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 pages
...his ground of hope of forgiveness for the unholy act which he was meditating. " I know." says he, " that it is forbidden to destroy ourselves; but I trust it is forbidden in this eort — that we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy."* After much delay and discussion,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1848 - 342 pages
...natters himself in that deceptive hope, that though " it is forbidden to destroy ourselves," he trusts " it is forbidden in this sort, that we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy." 2 Letter of Michael Hickes to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in Lodge's Illustrations, vol. iii. p. 217. Could... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 372 pages
...thyself that God hath not left me, and Satan tempted me. Hope and despair live not together. I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves, but I trust...we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. " The mercy of God is immeasurable, the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever... | |
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