 | 1847 - 662 pages
...was !" The martyr's last words ascended amid the noise of kindling flames and murmuring crowds, — "How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm!...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." About the same time Friar Alexander Seton, after proclaiming long-forgotten truth, fled to Berwick... | |
 | 1828 - 476 pages
...What is more interesting to know, is, that " he expired with these words in his mouth, ' How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness cover this realm? How long wilt...this tyranny of men? Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. " _ Thou wert a fit precursor to the band That foremost press'd, the blood-indented print Thy footsteps... | |
 | 1839 - 868 pages
...noise and fury of the flames, he was distinctly heard pronouncing these last words : " How long, О Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ! How long wilt...person of such high rank; to intimidate all others, and repress [SECOND SUBIES. VOL. I. the rising Reformation. The effect was precisely the reverse. It roused... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1838 - 590 pages
...stake, equalled those of the first martyrs of Christianity. He expired with these words in his mouth : " How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm...tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"! "The muider of Hamilton," says a modern historian,}: " was afterwards avenged in the blood of the nephew... | |
 | John M. Leighton - 1840 - 264 pages
...powder was brought from the castle, and thrown upon the fire ; and he at length died, exclaiming, " How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." At the time of his death Hamilton was only in his twenty-fourth year ; but his murder had a very different... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1841 - 704 pages
...the tumult of the people, ho was distinctly heard to pronounce these last words : — " How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ! how long wilt...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit .' " In this manner did Patrick Hamilton finish his short but glorious career, in the 24th year of... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1843 - 322 pages
...kindled ; and as the flames blazed up around him, his voice rose calm and clear, — " How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ? How long wilt thou suffer this tyranny of man ? Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ! " — and with these words his spirit returned to God who gave... | |
 | 1844 - 672 pages
...and unexampled piety, was burned at the stake " on the last day of February, 1528," crying to God, " How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ? How long wilt thou suffer this tyranny of man ? Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." "In February, 1538, Robert Forrester, gentleman ; Duncan Simpson,... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1845 - 754 pages
...now kindled, and the tumult of the multitude, his last words were distinctly heard — " How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ! How long wilt...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 1527-8.] AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. 421 Thus gloriously fell, as far as we know, the first native of Scotland... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1846 - 524 pages
...the first martyrs of Christianity. He expired with these words in his mouth, How long, 0 Lord, »hall darkness cover this realm ! How long wilt thou suffer...tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.]] "The murder of Hamilton (says a historian of that period} was afterwards avenged in the blood of the nephew... | |
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How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm? How long wilt thou suffer this tyranny of men? Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 
