"Know, friend, that there is no religion a man can pretend to can give a countenance to lying.

Thou hast a precious immortal soul, and there is nothing in the world equal to it in value.
Consider that the great God of Heaven and Earth, before Whose tribunal thou and we and all persons are to stand at the last day, will take vengeance on thee for every falsehood, and justly strike thee into eternal flames, make thee drop into the bottomless pit of fire and brimstone, if thou offer to deviate the least from the truth and nothing but the truth.

For I tell thee God is not mocked.

On that I charge you to answer truthfully.

How came you to be taken with these rebels ?" Peter Blood gaped at him a moment in consternation.