We Should Not Accept In

The Bread Which You Hold Back Belongs To The Hungry; The Coat, Which You Guard In Your Locked Storage-chests, Belongs To The Naked; The Footwear Mouldering In Your Closet Belongs To Those Without Shoes. The Silver That You Keep Hidden In A Safe Place Belongs To The One In Need. Thus, However Many Are Those Whom You Could Have Provided For, So Many Are Those Whom You Wrong.

Just As We Would Have No Need Of The Farmer's Labor And Toil If We Were Living Amid The Delights Of Paradise, So Also We Would Not Require The Medical Art For Relief If We Were Immune To Disease, As Was The Case, By God's Gift, At The Time Of Creation Before The Fall.

Just As A Very Little Fresh Water Is Blown Away By A Storm Of Wind And Dust, In Like Manner The Good Deeds, That We Think We Do In This Life, Are Overwhelmed By The Multitude Of Evils.

What Is The Benefit Of Fasting In Our Body While Filling Our Souls With Innumerable Evils? He Who Does Not Play At Dice, But Spends His Leisure Otherwise, What Nonsense Does He Not Utter? What Absurdities Does He Not Listen To? Leisure Without The Fear Of God Is, For Those Who Do Not Know How To Use Time, The Teacher Of Wickedness.

What Is The Mark Of A Christian? That He Be Purified Of All Defilement Of The Flesh And Of The Spirit In The Blood Of Christ, Perfecting Sanctification In The Fear Of God And The Love Of Christ, And That He Have No Blemish Nor Spot Nor Any Such Thing; That He Be Holy And Blameless And So Eat The Body Of Christ And Drink His Blood; For 'he That Eateth And Drinketh Unworthily, Eateth And Drinketh Judgement To Himself.' What Is The Mark Of Those Who Eat The Bread And Drink The Cup Of Christ? That They Keep In Perpetual Remembrance Him Who Died For Us And Rose Again.