unless he brings it out in his actions, as far as he can.

Therefore St. James says, 'Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew
me thy faith WITHOUT thy works,' (and who can do that?) 'and I will
shew thee my faith by my works.'

And St. John says, there is no use SAYING you love. 'Let us love not
in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;' and again--and
would to God that most people who talk so glibly about heaven and
hell, and the ways of getting thither, would recollect this one plain
text--'Little children, let no man deceive you. He that DOETH
righteousness is righteous, even as God is righteous.' And therefore
it is that St. Paul bids rich men 'be rich also in noble deeds,'
generous and liberal of their money to all who want, that they may
'lay hold of that which is really life,' namely, the eternal life of
goodness.

And therefore also, my friends, we may be sure that God loves in deed
and in truth: because it is written that God is love.

For if a man loves, he longs to help those whom he loves. It is the
very essence of love, that it cannot be still, cannot be idle, cannot
be satisfied with itself, cannot contain itself, but must go out to
do good to those whom it loves, to seek and to save that which is
lost. And therefore God is perfect love, and his eternal life a life
of eternal love, because he sends his Son eternally to seek and to
save that which is lost.

This, then, is eternal life; a life of everlasting love showing
itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he