to god in Worfhip . opened to you when I chewed you wherin we draw nigh to God : This was one, I told you that when we come to wor- fhip God, we come to tender up forte prefent to God, now then we muff tender up fuch a prefent as is fumble to Gods excellen- cy. If a man fhould come to a poor man togive a prefent, if it were not worth twelve pence, yet it may be taken well : but if youwere co, tender up a prefent to a Prince, a Monarch, an Emperor, then you mutt tender a prefent that h fit for the quality of the perfon. Therefore in cAlalachy, 1. 8. When the Lord rebukes them for theSacrifices that they were fuch pool things : Go (faithGod-) and tender tcp this to your governor, and fee whether he will accept of it or no. So certainly that which may be accepted-of by a mean man, would be accounted a (corn ifyou fhould tender it up to a Prince, or an Emperor. Now' when we come to Worfhip God, we muff confider that we are to tender up our fervice toGod, who is thegreat King of Kings; and Lord of Lords. But you will fay, is it poflible for any creature which comes to tender up its worfhip to God; to tender up that which is fir for a God to have ? This may rather be a clic. couragement unto prayer, or any other duty of worfhip than an encouragment. To that I anfwer thus, Though we be very poor and mean, yet is doth not hinder, but we may tender up that toGodwhich Godwill acknowledg to be futable tohis infinite excellency : as, Firft, If we tender up toGod all that we have : Though we be never fo poor and mean, yet if God hath the ftrength of our fouls, God accepts it. For we are to know that Goddoth nor thud in needof what we have, or of what we do ; but that we might (hew our refped to 'Him : Therefore ifwe give allchar we have, God accepts it As a Child, if it puts. forth all its flrength that it hath CO do a bufinefs which the father` bids him,. whether the bufinefsbedone or no, the father looks upon it and accepts it as futable to, the childs !bengal ; and it thews the re- fpett of that the childhath to his father Andas it is ftoriedof an Emperor, that when- a poor man had nothing to offer him, but a little water that he had takenup with hia henri, he ha- ving nothing elfeohe Emperor ecceptc of it. So- tlaat.'4 that whichGod lookes for,that the Creature fhould iifc him above all
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