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"Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "And I will do your need, if God please and His sweet Mother." Thereupon he teacheth him the way whereby the Giant went, and the place where he had his repair, and Messire Gawain goeth his way thitherward and commendeth himself to God. The country folk pray for him according to their belief that he may back repair with life and health, for that he goeth in great peril.
The canon law itself commendeth this form and saith, Electio clericorum est petitio plebis. And was he not a popish archbishop who condescended that the city of Magedeburg should have jus vocandi ac constituendi ecclesiae ministros? Neither would the city accept of peace without this condition.
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly." "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." "For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son," &c., Rom. v. Out of these words I gather these three things. That Christ by God's appointment died for us.
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he who commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth. I WISH ye would bear with me a little in my foolishness, yea indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
Till, out of sheer pity, and almost remorse, that His service should entail such poverty on all His servants, Christ sends them out continually less with an invitation to their people than to themselves, saying always to them, 'Take the invitation to yourselves; and he of My servants who hath no money let him buy without money and bear away what he will. 'My dear Fergushill, our Lord is not so cruel as to let a poor man see salvation and never let him touch it for want of money; indeed, the only thing that commendeth sinners to Christ is their extreme necessity and want.
"He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. "For when we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
By reason thereof the land is full of sorrow, for these, alack! have none now to care for them. The king also ceaseth not to make dole." "Now God requite him," said Gunther, "that he commendeth his service so fair to me and to my men. I have hearkened gladly to his greeting. My kinsmen and my liegemen will repay him."
"Messire Gawain," saith the hermit, "Now God grant you speed your business better than did the other knight that was there before you, through whom are all the lands fallen into sorrow, and the good King Fisherman languisheth thereof." "Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "God grant me herein to do His pleasure." Thereupon he taketh his leave and goeth his way, and the hermit commendeth him to God.
The elder son, in his statement of the case, introduces an elaborately constructed double contrast between his brother's experience and his own, which is peculiarly interesting in relation to the mercy of God and the methods of the Gospel. To the jaundiced eye of this sour-tempered pharisaic youth, it seemed that his father gave much to him that deserved least, and little to him that deserved most: to the profligate son, the fatted calf; to the eminently dutiful child, not even a kid. Here the hard, self-satisfied formalist, like Pilate and Caiaphas, preaches the Christ whom he did not know. The envious contrast portrayed by the elder son is a dark shadow which takes its shape from the Light of life. It is a law of the Gospel that nothing is given to the man in reward for the righteousness which he brings forward as his boast; but all is given to the man who has flung away his own righteousness with loathing as filthy rags, and come, "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked," to cast himself on the mercy of God. The greatest gift is bestowed on the most worthless; for "God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom.
If they are so, they will be reversed. We shall "be judged out of the books, according to our works;" not according to our false and deceitful views. I know nothing by myself, yet, am I not hereby justified. For not he that commandeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Characters will be disclosed, and Justice awarded. 1 Corinthians iv. 5.
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