Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.

by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .

But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.

Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct