ON WORKS AND ALMS. 11 stamp with righteousreproaches: " Thou sayest,"says He, u I am rich,and increasedwith goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable,and poor, and blind,and naked. I counselthee to buy of me gold triedin the fire,thatthou mayest be rich; and white raiment,that thou mayest be clothed,and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear in thee; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve,that thou mayest see."1 You therefore,who are richand wealthy,buy foryourselfof Christ gold triedby fire; that you may be pure gold,with your filthburnt out as if by fire,if you are purged by alms giving and righteousworks. Buy foryourselfwhite raiment, that you who had been naked accordingto Adam, and were before frightfuland unseemly,may be clothedwith the white garment of Christ. And you who are a wealthy and rich matron in Christ'schurch,2anoint your eyes,not with the collyriumof the devil,but with Christ'seye-salve,that you may be ableto attainto see God, by deservingwell of God, both by good works and character. 15. But you who are such as this,cannot labour in the church. For your eyes,overcastwith the gloom of black ness,and shadowed in night,do not seethe needy and poor. You arewealthy and rich,and do you thinkthatyou celebrate the Lord's Supper, not at allconsideringthe offering,3who come to the Lord's Supper withouta sacrifice,and yet take part of thesacrificewhich the poor man has offered? Con siderin the Gospel the widow thatremembered the heavenly precepts,doing good even amidst the difficultiesand straits of poverty,castingtwo mites,which were allthat she had, intothe treasury; whom when the Lord observed and saw, regardingher work not for itsabundance, but for itsinten tion,and consideringnot how much, but from how much, she had given,He answered and said," VerilyI say unto you, thatthatwidow hath castin more than they allintothe offeringsof God. For allthesehave,of thatwhich they had 1Rev.iii.17,18. * Thesewords," inChrist'schurch,"areomittedina fewtexts. 1 " Corban."