eel what you say, if you would have us feel
it. Believe what you say, if you would have us believe it. Flee to the
refuge yourselves, if you would have us flee. And let us see you selling
all in the poor man's market, if you would see us also selling all and
coming after you.' The people of Anwoth and Ochiltree were very well off
in this respect also that their ministers did not bid them do anything
that they did not first do themselves. The truest and best apostolical
succession had come to those two parishes in that their two pastors were
able, with a good conscience before God and before their people, to say
with Paul to the Philippians: 'Those things, which ye have both learned,
and received, and heard, and seen in me do; and the God of peace shall be
with you.'

As to the merchandise of the poor man's market,--that embraces everything
that any man can possibly need or find any use for either in this world
or in the next. Absolutely everything is found in the poor man's
market--everything, from God Himself, the most precious of all things,
down to the sinner himself, the most vile and worthless of all things.
The whole world, and all the worlds, are continually thrown into this
market, both by the seller and by the purchaser. The seller holds
nothing back from this market, and the purchaser comes to this market for
everything. Even what he already possesses; even what he bought and paid
for but yesterday; even what everybody else would call absolutely the
poor man's own, he throws it all back again upon God every day, and thus
holds all he has as his instant purchase of the great Merchantman. The
poor man's market is as far as possible from being a Vanity Fair, but the
catalogues and the sale-lists of that fair may be taken as a specimen of
the things that change hands continually in the poor man's market also.
For here also are sold such merchandise as houses, lands, trades, places,
honours, preferments, pleasures and delights of all sorts; wives,
husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, gold,
silver, and what not. All these things God sells to poor men every day;
and for all these things, as often as they need any of them, His poor men
come to His market for them. And, as has been said, even after they have
got possession of any or all of these things, as if the market had an
absolute fascination for them, like gamblers who cannot stay away from
the wheel, they are back again,