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Rh earnest and there I found Him and He kept me from all iniquity. This I believe, because of His indwelling Spirit, who hath wrought in me even unto this day. Again boldly do I speak, But God knoweth if man had said this to me, perhaps I would have remained silent for the love of Christ.

34. For this reason, then, I give unwearied thanks to my God who preserved me in constancy in the day of my temptation, so that I can to-day with confidence offer Him a sacrifice, as a living victim, my soul to Christ my Lord, who preserved me through all my difficulties, so that I may say: Who am I, O Lord, or what is my calling that Thou shouldst have co-operated with me with such Divine virtue? so that to-day I should constantly extol and magnify Thy name among the heathens wherever I may be, not only in prosperity but also in adversity; so that whatever may befall me, be it good or evil, I ought to accept it with equanimity, and always give thanks to God who made it plain to me that I might trust Him to the end as one who cannot be doubted; and who hath heard me, so that I, though ignorant and in the last days, should begin to set about this work so holy and so wonderful, so that I might imitate in some way those of whom the Lord long ago foretold that they would herald His Gospel as a testimony to all nations before the end of the world. And, accordingly, as we have seen, this has been fulfilled. Behold we are witnesses that the Gospel has been preached as far as the limit beyond which no one dwelleth.

35. But it were long to tell the whole of my labour in every particular, or even partially. I shall briefiy relate how the most gracious God often delivered me from slavery and from the twelve dangers by which my soul was imperilled, besides many plots and things which I am not able to express in words. Nor shall I be