He not only drank prodigiouslythat, being in character and also a source of local profit, might have passed with mild censurebut he swore and blasphemed horribly, spurning the parson, mocking at Revelation, even at the Deity Himself.

Thou art worse than a pagan, infidel, Jew, or Turk, for thou art an apostate and more, thou hast voluntarily blasphemed, renounced God and all religion, thou art worse than Judas himself, or they that crucified Christ: for they did offend out of ignorance, but thou hast thought in thine heart there is no God.