And, listenin to him, Jesus said, “Ae thing, yet, dae ye want! Sell ye aʼ things that ye hae, and divide wiʼ the needy, and yeʼse hae gude gear in Heeven! And come! follow ye me!”
But, staunin afore him, Zaccheus said, “Lord! I gie the hauf oʼ my gear to the puir; and gin frae ony ane I hae taen by fause dealin, I gie him back fowr‐fauld!”
Noo he, settin his een on him, and bein unco fleyʼt, said, “What isʼt, my Lord?” And he said to him, “Yere prayers and aumouses are come up to be keepit in mind afore God.
Them that are rich in this present world, chairge ye no to be prood, nor lippen to the uncertaintie oʼ riches; but on God, wha gies us a rowth oʼ aʼ things to enjoy:
The service oʼ religion, pure and perfete afore oor God and Father is this: To be visitin faitherless and widows iʼ their dool, to keep his sel unstained frae the warld.
Gin aiblins any ane soud say, “I loʼe God!” and is hatin his brither, he is a leear; for he that loʼes‐na his brither wham he has seen, hoo can he be loʼein God wham he hasna seen?