Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

nearby British king, survive and may be found
readily. In the Letter Patrick tells how he
surrendered his high privileges to become a slave
for Christ. Of his faith and his dedication to God,
he says:
I was a free man according to the flesh. I was
born of a father who was a decurion. For I sold my
nobility for the good of others, and I do not blush
or grieve about it. Finally, I am a servant in Christ
delivered to a foreign nation on account of the
unspeakable glory of an everlasting life which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
Of the two writings, namely, the Confession,
and the Letter, Sir William Betham writes:
In them will be found no arrogant presumption,
no spiritual pride, no pretension to superior
sanctity, no maledictions of magi, or rivers,
because his followers were drowned in them, no
veneration for, or adoration of, relics, no
consecrated staffs, or donations of his teeth for
relics, which occur so frequently in the lives and
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