"Yes; but I'd like to have you mention my name."
"Well, here it is."
Still he keeps eyeing the Bible, and saying, "I'd like to have that Bible; but I'd like to give you something for it. I don't like to take it for nothing."
"But I am not here to sell Bibles; take it, if you want it."
"Well, I want it; but I'd like to give you something for it. Let me give you a cent for it; though, to be sure, it's worth about five dollars."
Suppose I accept the cent; the man takes up the Bible and marches away home with it.
His wife asks, "Where did you get that Bible?"
"Oh, I bought it."
Mark the point; when he gave the penny, it ceased to be a gift. So with salvation. If you were to pay ever so little, it would not be a gift.