. Chap.S. ,tccordixtg to St MA TT H>; vv. V5p that no man fhould ask a petitionof any God or man, for thirty l aperius eóz%. dayes, faveofhitn. Diocletian would needs be worfhipped as a pas r ho- God,and was the firff that held forth his feet to bekiffed,after Ca- <.ur , I li;ul.z. A,nurath the third, Emperour of the Turks, ifíled himfelf Luk. r ï t.5. God of the earth, Governour ofthe wholeworld,the Mefienger of ...ilk . ñ Q. God, and faithfull fervant of the great Prophet. And the great q,a, re4t0, awl Charmof 7-artary, is called by the fimple vulgar, The fhadowof cg -r. fpirits, and Tonne of the immortali God : And by himfelf he is re- "pb "at è Euu'up. pured tobe the Monarch of the whole world. For which caufe Turk. Hft fat every day ( if all be true that isreported of him ) as foot) as he bath dined, he canted hisstrumpets to be founded, by that fìgnegiving ?:(:c Spby,. leave to other Kings and Princes to go to dinner. Theft be the Ph"orp ',eyuns Gvcog Grandees of the earth, and think no wean things of themfelves. ,' Butcompare them with the Great King here mentioned, and p'g ''bz' what becommeth of all their fuppofed greatneffe ? mil! Nations befire kimare but a the dug of the balance, or drop of a bucket. 6uantilla ercò .s ru ifflue Quttæ paYticufa ?fàieh a Father : If all sot retilut f;. Nations are toGod but as thedrop of a bucket,oh what a ftnall pit- tance :null thou needs be, how great toever, of that little drop? vtas;F'Jar. And as he is great, fohe looketh tobe praifed and ferved according f,a, t'. , c t. t e bas excellent greatn ere. We fhould, if it were poflible, fill up' S.a duth the that vati diftance and dttproportion, that is betwixt him and us, God o} glory, by the greatnefle of our praifes, and fîncerity, at leali, of our fervi- Aa, ?.z ces,in prefenting himwith the beft. For 1am a great King, faith h9al.r 8.14. -God,and he ftands uponhis feniority.: Offer it now to thy Prince, will he accept thy refute braid- ftuffe,`,c. It is,verily, amoil tweet meditation of St Bernard: whenfoever we come before God in any dúty, we fhould conceive our (elves tobe entring into the court of Heaven, wherein the King of Kings litteth in a {lately throne, furrounded with an hoft ofglorious Angels, and crowned Saints. With how great humility therefore, reverence and godly fear,oughta poor worm,crawlingout ofhis hole,a vile frog,creep- .uaata erzo ng out of his mud, draw nigh to filch a Maj fty ? The Seraphitns act tredeter lfa.6, d patu,ie /ua as men are wont to do their hands, when the lightning flalheth in clap their wings on their faces when they ifand before God, proceaenr j their faces : The nearer any man draws toGod, the snore rotten- repens vi,'ú ra. nefe hefindeth in his bones. Abraham is duff and afhes, lob ab- nureçula?1, ",a, l»rrethhimfelf indull and aflhes,J[aiah,cryes, Woe is me, for I am de dt `'ei4 `. undone : Peter, Depart from me,I ama fnfúll man. All thefe had Ho'3 a right conceptions ofGods.greatneffe, and this is t hat that is re- quited
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