 This he said to us. Indeed, it was admirable. A little after, he said, " One thing lay upon his spirit." I asked him, " What that was !" He told me it was, " That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies.  The Life of Oliver Cromwell - Page 96by J. T. Headley - 1848 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Ward - Freedom of religion - 1647 - 120 pages
...above his pain. ' A little after he said, One thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was? he told me it was, That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies."1 In his letter from Dublin, Sept. 16, 1649, Cromwell wrote: ' ' It hath pleased God to bless... | |
 | 1825 - 588 pages
...had not suffered him to be noe more the executioner of his enemies. Alt his fall, his horse beinge killed with the bullet, and as I am informed three horses more. I am told hee bid them open to the right and left, that hee might see the rogues runn. Truly hee was exceedingly... | |
 | M. Thomas Shaw - Wharfdale (England) - 1830 - 206 pages
...noe more the executioner of his enemies. " Att his fall, his horse beinge killed with the bullett, " and, as I am informed, three horses more. I am " told he bid them open right and left, that he might " see the rogues runn. Truly he was exceedingly^ " beloved in the armie,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...admirable. A little after, he said, " One thing lay upon his spirit." I asked him, " What that was !" He told me it was, " That God had not suffered him...told he bid them, " Open to the right and left, that ho might see the rogues run." Truly, he was exceedingly beloved in the Army, of all that knew him.... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1846 - 434 pages
...as " a precious young man fit for God." In his dying moments but " one thing lay upon his spirit." It was, " That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of his enemies." Wo betide the heathen destined for conversion by the stern disciples of that unpitying creed ! And,... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 292 pages
...it was admirable. A little after he said, one thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was. He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to...informed, three horses more, I am told he bid them open to right and left, that he might see the rogues run. Truly he was exceedingly beloved in the Army, of... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 298 pages
...was admirable. » A little after he said, one thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was. He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to...be any more the executioner of His enemies. At his fell, his horse being killed with the bullet, and, as I am informed, three horses more, I am told he... | |
 | Scotland - 1847 - 806 pages
...writes thus, — " A little after, he said, one thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him what that was. He told me it was that God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of his enemies !" But nothing disturbs the equanimity of our editor, or interrupts his flow of rapture over the fanaticism... | |
 | 1847 - 1054 pages
...it was admirable. A little after, he said one thing lay on his spirit. I asked him, what that was ? He told me it was ' that God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of his enemies;' " and with this ferocious sentiment on his lips he died ! Hugh Peters, after the massacre at Drogheda,... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Great Britain - 1847 - 396 pages
...was admirable. A little after he said, " one thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, " What that was. He told me it was, That God " had not suffered him to be any more the execu" tioner of His enemies. At his fall, his horse " being killed with the bullet, and as I am informed... | |
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