 I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 311863Full view - About this book
 | William Crookshank - 1812 - 408 lehte
...take the abjuration, otherwise to return to the water. She most deliberately refused, and said, « I will not \ I am one of Christ's « children, let me go-,' and immediately was thrust into the watar, where she finished her course with joy, and died a. virginmartyr,... | |
 | 1847 - 648 lehte
...to lose his victim, required her to swear the abjuration oath. In the same firm tone she answered, "I will not: I am one of Christ's children; let me go! " By his command she was again plunged into the heaving waters, and, after a brief struggle, the spirit... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1841 - 602 lehte
...return to the water. The poor young woman, thus cruelly deluded with the hope of life, firmly replied, " I will not ; I am one of Christ's children ! let me go." Upon which she was again thrust into the water, and drowned. Thus died these two women, simply because... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 392 lehte
...papist, James II., was to be acknowledged as the head of the church. Firm in her faith, she replied : " I will not. I am one of Christ's children. Let me go ! " The soldiers again threw her into the sea, where she perished, and entered, at last, into the rest... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1851 - 512 lehte
...lose his victim, required her to answer the abjuration oath. In the same firm tone she answered, " I will not ; I am one of Christ's children; let me go!" By his command she was again plunged into the heaving waters, and, after a brief struggle, the spirit... | |
 | James Anderson - 1853 - 526 lehte
...rather than to do what she believed would be a denial of Christ and his truth, she firmly replied, "I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go." And so, after her sufferings were thus inhumanly protracted, and after being thus cruelly tantalized with... | |
 | George Paxton Young - 1854 - 356 lehte
...shouldest thou destroy thyself?" But integrity was dearer to her than life, and therefore she replied, — "I will not ; I am one of Christ's children ; let me go :" and the waters covered her for ever. III. The Preacher, however, proceeds to intimate that, while the administration... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1856 - 506 lehte
...lose his victim, required her to answer the abjuration oath. In the same firm tone she answered, " I will not ; I am one of Christ's children ; let me go !" By his command she was again plunged into the heaving waters, and, after a brief struggle, the spirit... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1862 - 474 lehte
...place, cried out, ' She was willing to conform I' they being desirous to save her life at any rate. 1 Upon which Major Winram offered the oath of abjuration...refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats." Let it be borne in mind, that these very particular details, — the verse of the psalm, the... | |
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