 | 1865 - 456 էջ
...guide of life. And he was greatly troubled at the thought that other men would have to pray, " 0 God 1 if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul." But, for himself, he believed in God because he could not help it. His trouble was with questions of... | |
 | W. H. Lewis - 1870 - 328 էջ
...amount of this distressing uncertainty all around us. What a strange prayer was that of an infidel : O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul ! Who would be in the condition of that miserable doubter for worlds ? And those in this Christian... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1870 - 374 էջ
...calamity and danger. The sceptical prayer said to have been used by a soldier on the battle-field, "O God, — if there be a God, — save my soul, if I have a soul!" must have been offered in substance, though not in form, by thousands of doubting but alarmed minds,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1871 - 232 էջ
...Christianity based on 1 i Cor. xv. 18. The last prayer of Thistlewood, the Cato Street conspirator, "Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul," rings with the echoes of an intense despair ; but it is an abyss far lower than this to affirm dogmatically... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1871 - 230 էջ
...Christianity based on 1 I Cor. xv. 18. The last prayer of Thistlewood, the Cato Street conspirator, " Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul," rings with the echoes of an intense despair; but it is an abyss far lower than this to affirm dogmatically... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 էջ
...reminds one of the prayer told to Bishop Atterbury, as offered by a soldier on the eve of battle: " O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!" I am sorry to repeat ill-sounding words again; but is not this really the exact religious attitude... | |
 | William Jackson - 1871 - 76 էջ
...reminds one of the prayer told to Bishop Atterbury, as offered by a soldier on the eve of battle : " O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul ! " I am sorry to repeat ill-sounding words again ; but is not this really the exact religious attitude... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1872 - 390 էջ
...prayer he had ever heard was the prayer of a common soldier just before the battle of Blenheim : ' O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh. I immediately reflected that such a treatment of the subject... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1900 - 380 էջ
...prayer he had ever heard was the prayer of a common soldier just before the battle of Blenheim : ' O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh. I immediately reflected that such a treatment of the subject... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter (bp. of Ripon.) - 1873 - 136 էջ
...and prayer rushes forth in such a despairing shriek as burst from the lips of Thistlewood : — " O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !" If the language of prayer is thus natural to all men, and forced at times from reluctant lips, it... | |
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O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh. 
