s; he always clothed
himself next to gratitude with humility. Men differ, good men differ,
and Emmanuel's livery-men differ in what they put on, at what time, and
in what order. But that was William Law's way. You will learn more of
his way, and you will be helped to find out a like way for yourselves, if
you will become students of his incomparable books. You will find how he
put on charity, 1 Cor. thirteenth chapter; and then how, over all, he put
on the will of God; till, thus equipped and thus accoutred, he was able
to say, as it has seldom been said since it was first said, 'I put on
righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was to me as a robe and as
a diadem. The Almighty was then with me, and my children were about me.
When I washed my steps with butter, and when the rock poured me out
rivers of oil!' So much for that livery-man of Emmanuel, the author of
the _Christian Perfection_ and the _Spirit of Love_. As for the women's
vestry in the Interpreter's House, Matthew Henry saw the thirty-first
chapter of the Proverbs hung up on that vestry wall, and Christiana
making her morning toilet before it with Mercy beside her. Who would
find a virtuous woman, let him look before that looking-glass for her,
and he will be sure to find her and her daughters and her daughters-in-
law putting on their white raiment there.

2. 'Secondly, keep your garments always white; for if they be soiled, it
is a dishonour to Me. I have a few names even in Sardis which have not
defiled their garments, and they shall walk with Me in white, for they
are worthy.' Even in Sardis, with every street and every house full of
soil and dishonour to the name of Christ, even in Sardis Emmanuel had
some of whom He could boast Himself. Would you not immensely like at the
last day to be one of those some in Sardis? Shall it not be splendid
when Sardis comes up for judgment to be among those few names that
Emmanuel shall then read out of His book, and when, at their few names,
two or three men shall step out into the light in His livery? Some of
you are in Sardis at this moment. Some of you are in a city, or in a
house in a city, where it is impossible to keep your garments clean. And
yet, no; nothing is impossible to Emmanuel and His true livery-men. Even
in that house where you are, Emmanuel will say over you, I have one there
who is thankful to My Father and to Me; thankful to singing every morning
where there is little, as men se