 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 292 pages
...of an inordinate ambition; "Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although still determined to effect his purpose,... | |
 | William Angus (A.M.) - 1837 - 316 pages
...September, 1530. A little before his death, he said to Sir William Kingston, who had him in custody, "Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me up in my grey hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for not regarding my service to God,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1837 - 732 pages
...heart soon afterwards, uttering in the anguish of his soul, the never to be forgotten words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs." Anne Boleyn, in less than three years, was condemned and beheaded. After... | |
 | Rev. Molesworth - 1837 - 424 pages
...Kingston, I see the matter against me, how it is framed ; but, if I had served God as diligently as I have the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." Oh, what a lesson does this declaration read to us, upon the vanity and folly of setting our trust... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 568 pages
...sometimes three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the...this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my ser. vice to God, but only to my prince." Shortly after... | |
 | Henry Laurens, David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor - 2003 - 978 pages
...recorded the cardinal's dying comments, including: "If I had served (lod as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. "George Cavendish, The I jfe and Death ofCj1r. dinalWolay (Boston and New York. 1905), p. 182. SOURCE:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pages
...deathbed. As he lay dying, he is reported to have said: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, He would not have given me over in my grey...reward that I must receive for my diligent pains and studies that I have had to do him service, and not regarding my services to God, but only to satisfy... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pages
...with me"? Cavendish, in his Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, quotes the Cardinal's own words - "Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." How different the heavenly King treated His chosen Servant! Matthew's record of Christ's... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - 1990 - 285 pages
...Westminster to attend the court. On his deathbed he opined, "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."18 There seems to be very little doubt from all of the evidence that Catherine was still a virgin... | |
 | John Beadle, Germaine Fry Murray - 1996 - 390 pages
...negotiations of Thomas Woolsey (London, 1641; Wing STC C1619), sig. Fir: "And master Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my gray haires." Also, see The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, ed. Richard S. Sylvester (Oxford: EETS,... | |
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... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. 
