 It was not so much the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in having so long neglected the unspeakable mercies of my God and Saviour ; and such was the effect which this thought produced, that for months I was...  The Life of William Wilberforce - Seite 89von Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1838 - 1014 Seiten
...became his new impressions. ' It was not so much,' he has said, ' the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...effect which this thought produced, that for months 1 was in a state of the deepest depression, from strong convictions of my guilt. Indeed nothing which... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 Seiten
...became his new impressions. " It was not so much," he has said, " the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...read in the accounts of others, exceeded what I then felt."3S These were now his habitual feelings ; carefully concealed from others, and in some measure... | |
 | 1838 - 1104 Seiten
...my grasp." And yet — " it was not so much" — he has said — " the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness, in...read, in the accounts of others, exceeded what I then " felt." The path which now lay before him was sufficiently perplexed and rugged. While he was, himself,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 Seiten
...precious time, and opportunities, and talents. It was not so much the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...read in the accounts of others exceeded what I then felt.' — vol. i. pp. 88, 89. It was while this struggle was at its highest that he commenced the... | |
 | 1838 - 726 Seiten
...became his new impression*. < It was not so much,' he has said, ' the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness, in...long neglected the unspeakable mercies of my God and Savioor ; and such was the effect which this thought produced, that for months I wa» in a state of... | |
 | 1838 - 588 Seiten
...unspeakable mercies of my God nd Saviour ; and such was the effect which this thought produced, that >r months I was in a state of the deepest depression, from strong conictions of my guilt. Indeed nothing which I have ever read in the acounts of others exceeded what... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1847 - 876 Seiten
...interesting. " It was not so much," he said, " the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as by a sense of my great sinfulness in having so long neglected...effect which this thought produced, that for months I waa in a NEW SEBIE8. — NO. XX. 2 O state of the deepest depression, from strong convictions of my... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 Seiten
...chiefly dismayed him. "It was not so much," these are his own words, " the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...neglected the unspeakable mercies of my God and Saviour." His soul was not altogether a stranger to fear. The finite being who begins to have a fixed assurance... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 452 Seiten
...and opportunities, and talents." " It was not so much," he said, " the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...-read in the accounts of others exceeded what I then felt." On the 10th of November he reached Wimbledon. The child and the man have now become one. Thirteen... | |
 | Henry M. Wheeler - 1859 - 184 Seiten
...my precious time and opportunities and talents. It was not so much the fear of punishment by which I was affected, as a sense of my great sinfulness in...was in a state of the deepest depression from strong conviction of my guilt. Indeed, nothing which I have ever read in the accounts of others exceeded what... | |
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