...martyr's last words ascended amid the noise of kindling flames and murmuring crowds, — "How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm! How long wilt...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." About the same time Friar Alexander Seton, after proclaiming long-forgotten truth, fled to Berwick...

...Hisl. Scot. 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?...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...

...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...

...those of the first martyrs of Christianity. He expired with these words in his mouth : " How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ! How long wilt...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...

...brought from the castle, and thrown upon the fire ; and he at length died, exclaiming, " How long, O Lord, shall darkness cover this realm ! How long wilt...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...

...which burned with great vehemence, and the tumult of the people, ho was distinctly heard to pronounce these last words : — " How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness...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...

...effectually 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...

...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,...

...the flames now kindled, and the tumult of the multitude, his last words were distinctly heard — " How long, 0 Lord, shall darkness cover this realm...this tyranny of men ! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Thus gloriously fell, as far as we know, the first native of Scotland as an unspotted martyr for the...

...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...