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A16696	Newes from Niniue to Englande, brought by the prophete Ionas vvhich newes in plainlye published in the godly and learned exposition of Maister Iohn Brentius folovving, translated out of Latine into Englishe by Thomas Tymme minister.	Brenz, Johannes, 1499-1570.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1570 (1570)	STC 3601; ESTC S108281	65,005	180

common sort of men but euen among the chiefest Prophetes that haue beene eyther before his time or since Secondly we must consider the certaintye and aucthoritie of this booke The Church as yet neuer reiected or refused this booke but haue accounted the same among those which wee call Canonicall bookes of holye scripture and which haue Ecclesiasticall and heauenlye testimonies Furthermore we haue our sauiour Christ as concerning this matter a sufficient testimony and witnesse as may appeare by the .xij. Chapter of Mathew where he alledgeth the example of Ionas for his resurrection affirming that the comming of Ionas out of the Whales bellye was a type of the same Furthermore Christ preferreth the Niniuets before the Israelites bicause the Niniuets repented at the one onelye sermon of Ionas and the Israelites woulde not be conuerted vnto the Lorde by many sermons Wherefore if euer any man did or shall hereafter doubt of the aucthoritie truth and certaintie of this booke Christ by his testimonie hath so confirmed the same that though an Aungell came from heauen teaching the contrary he ought not to be beleued Last of all we must knowe the argument or summe of this prophecie in the which certayne perticuler places are noted 1 The first place conteyneth the seueritie of the wrath of God towardes all such as walke disobediently in their calling Ionas was a Prophet which was most acceptable vnto god and which before had done notable things in Israell and by his sermons had preserued the kingdome of the same notwithstanding when hee fled and was disobedient to his calling he was cast by the ordinaunce of God into the Sea. An example of Gods seuere punishment worthye to bee noted The lyke we haue of Saule who disobeying the commaundement of God reserued part of the pray of Amelecke for the which disobedience hee was rent from his kingdome Another example we haue of the prophete whom the Lion slue by Gods appoyntment for his disobedience Wherevpon it is sayde to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken is better than the fat of Rammes 2 The seconde place conteyneth the wonderful and inspeakeable mercy of God by the which he commonly deliuereth all those which call vpon him in truth Ionas was cast into the sea and deuoured of the Whale And although he coulde not be saued and deliuered naturally yet notwithstanding by the diuine power and clemencie of God he is supernaturally and miraculouslye deliuered This miracle to certaine worldly wise men and contemners of the worde of God seemeth ridiculous and like vnto olde wyues tales And amongst all others scoffing Lucian being stirred vp of Sathan the Deuill the father of lyes to obscure discredit and deride this miracle hath written a booke intituled De veris narrationibus that is a booke of true narrations in the which hee maketh mention of certaine men which being in a ship were swallowed vp shippe and all of a Whale in the which Whale sayth he there were Mountaynes woods and Cities to the which the men arriued with their shippe and had great delectation there This fonde fable seemeth to bee inuented by Lucian to deride the Christians which beleeue the storie of Ionas to be true But this and many other such are deuised by the Deuill and his ministers to deride and deface true and godly myracles But let vs vnderstand that this myracle was done in deede and that it hath heauenly testimonies to proue and ratifie the same as we haue alreadie declared God which created heauen and earth of nothing and which raysed and will rayse the dead to life could also for a time saue and preserue Ionas in the whales belly Let vs acknowledge therefore this myracle to be a declaration of the power and clemency of God and an example also of the resurrection of Christ and of all the godly also to euerlasting lyfe as hereafter GOD willing shall be declared 3 The thirde place conteyneth the doctrine of repentaunce There haue beene many which haue denyed to sinners after their fall any hope of gods grace And there are manye which when they haue sinned perswade themselues that there is no way of saluation left vnto them Here therefore there are two examples of repentaunce propounded vnto vs The one in the Prophete Ionas who although he fell into disobedience yet notwithstanding repenting he is receyued into Gods fauour againe The other in the Niniuets who although they had greatly sinned insomuch that they deserued eternall destruction and damnation yet notwithstanding repenting they are receyued into Gods fauour and preserued with their Citie Let vs therefore turne to the Lorde by repentaunce being perswaded that the Lorde will receyue vs and that the Aungels in heauen shall reioyce ouer our repentaunce Thus gentle Reader I haue declared who this Prophet Ionas was what aucthoritie this booke hath and which are the speciall places of this booke The which if thou well obserue and note they will profite to the nourishing of the feare of God to the encrease of fayth and to the bringing forth of true obedience which are the most acceptable seruice of God. ¶ A godly exposition of the Prophet Ionas The first Chapter THE VVorde of the Lorde came vnto IONAS the sonne of Amithai saying Arise and get thee to Niniue that great ci●ie and preache vnto them howe that ●heir wickednesse is come vp before mee THe Scripture of the olde Testament doth often and verie much testifie ●hat God in times past hath spoken with ●he Patriarches and Prophets As sayth the Apostle Paule in his Epistle to the Hebrues God in times past diuersly and many wayes spake vnto the fathers by Prophetes Let vs therefore vnderstande and knowe howe and after what maner God hath reuealed his will to the Patriarches and Prophets 1 Sometimes he spake with them by sending Aungels visiblye vnto them example we haue in the booke of Genesis where we reade that Aungels came vnto Abraham in the likenesse and shape of men Also there came Angels vnto ●oth which brought him out of Sodome before it was destroyed And so an Angell appeared visibly vnto Zacharias the father of Iohn to the virgin Marie likewise and to many other 2 Sometimes God spake vnto the fathers by the voice of an Aungell inuisibly And so he talked with Moses out of the bushe where Moses hearde the voyce of an Angell speaking in the person of God but sawe no Aungell So the Aungell in the person of God recited the lawe in the Mount Sinai the which voice was heard of more than sixe hundreth thousand men but they sawe no man as appeareth by the wordes of Moses saying You hearde the voyce of his wordes but you sawe no forme or shape at all So God spake by an inuisible Aungell vnto Samuell So I thinke also that the Lorde spake to Moses from the mercye seate as appeareth ●y this text And from thence I will testifie

prophecied the certaine time of the deliuerance of the people out of Babilon saying that they shoulde be set frée the seuenth hundreth yeare But the speciall example is of Christ Iesus the sonne of God for he suffered the most shamefull death of the Crosse But before he tooke vpon him our humaine nature and was borne of the virgin the prophets preached of his death resurrection and kingdome As wée maye reade in the thrée and fiftie Chapter of Esay and in many other places For God so loued his onely begotten sonne that he woulde not haue suffered the Iewes so cruelly to haue put him to death vnlesse he had before appoynted and determined how to saue and deliuer him But some man will say I graunt in déede that this hapned to Christ the sonne of God to IONAS likewise and to other Prophetes and holy men Obiect But I am so abiect base and contemned that he hath no care respect or regard vnto me Again my sinnes and offences are so heynous that God careth not what euill happeneth vnto mée his wrath is so kindled against me We are truely contemned if we consider our corporall estate and our sinnes no doubt doe prouoke the wrath of God against vs But he which reiecteth sinners for their sinne he also receyueth sinners through repentaunce And although as touching our corporall estate we are abiect and subiect to death yet notwithstanding if we be of the Church of Christ then are we in the sight of God an excellent treasure Wherefore we must séeke by all meanes to come to repentance and to be members of the Church of Christ The which thing we shall bring to passe when we acknowledging our sinnes embrace Iesus Christ by a true fayth and walke by this fayth in inuocation and calling vpon God and in good workes which God hath commaunded In so doing all the promises of the care and prouidence of God mentioned in holy scripture pertaine vnto vs. I liue sayth the Lorde and will not the death of a sinner but rather that hée turne from his wickednesse and liue The Lorde is nigh vnto all those that are of a contrite heart and an humble spirite Moreouer the Lorde is nigh vnto all those that call vpon him And our sauiour Christ sayth All the heares of your heade are numbred ¶ And IONAS was in the belly of the Whale three daies and three nights This is that myracle which the godlye and faithfull do woonder at and wherat the vngodly and infidels doe scoffe and iest Neyther is their any doubt but that Lucian tooke occasion by this place to write and indyte his booke of true Narrations to the ende he might therby set forth the doctrine and miracles of holy scripture to the whole world to be derided and iested at But that scoffing Lucian and wicked Ethnicke receyued a iust rewarde of hys impietie But let vs vnderstande and knowe that although this myracle of IONAS being thrée dayes and thrée nights in the belly of the Whale séemeth to humaine reason not onely ridiculous but also impossible yet notwithstanding wée ought in no wise to doubt as concerning the veritie and truth of this matter For first of all this hystorie of IONAS is conteyned in the Canonicall bookes of holye scripture neyther ought we to doubt in any poynt of the authoritie of the same for as yet it was neuer vncertaine Looke howe great therefore the certaintie and truth of the whole summe of sacred scripture is so great also is the certaintie and truth of this myracle Furthermore Christ himselfe the sonne of God our Lorde commendeth vnto vs this myracle by name saying As IONAS was in the Whales belly thrée dayes and thrée nightes so must the sonne of man be c. Euen as therefore the aucthoritie of Christ was confirmed by heauenly prophecies and myracles as by clensing the Lepers by restoring the Lame to lymme by raysing the deade and such like euen so also the truth of this myracle of IONAS is cōfirmed by the same myracles Wherfore although the heathnish Ethnicks deride our credulitie and beliefe yet notwithstanding there is nothing more certaine sure and firme than these myracles Our dayly and common myracles doe confirme somewhat the truth of this myracle of IONAS As for example Doth not the infant or rather that which the Greekes call Embryon lye many wéekes aliue in the mothers wombe and yet notwithstanding is neyther choked nor killed but rather receyueth more perfite strength These and such like are dayly séene and yet notwithstanding bicause they are common they are rather counted naturall than myraculous But in déede they are no lesse myracles than this which concerneth IONAS Wherfore the same God which preserueth and quickneth by his omnipotent power the vnperfit childe in the mothers wombe preserued also IONAS in the Whales belly But this myracle hath his vse First as God exercised and tryed the fayth of IONAS being as yet in the belly of the Whale so he confirmed the same by making the Whale to cast him a lande safe and sounde Furthermore it certefieth vs that in all our affliction we shall receyue the helpe of God if we call vpon God as IONAS did as hereafter foloweth Last of all this myracle prefigured the death buriall and resurrection of Christ as Christ himselfe expoundeth the same Wherefore by this myracle we are admonished as well of the clemency of God in aduersitie as of the death and the resurrection of Christ that we also might conceyue a hope of deliueraunce and be certified and surelye perswaded of our resurrection ¶ And IONAS prayed vnto the Lord his God out of the fishes bellie and sayde In my trouble I called vnto the Lord and he heard me out of the bellie of hell I cried and thou heardest my voice Here followeth the Psalme which IONAS made to giue thankes vnto God for his benifits But we must not thinke that he had so much leysure that hée myght walke vp and downe in the Whales belly securely and sing this Psalme to passe away the time for he was ouerwhelmed with infinite dolors and griefes of death and hell hauing no hope almost of deliueraunce Therefore he prayed vnto the Lorde in the Whales bellye both with a sorowfull minde and wyth an vndoubted fayth also But after he was deliuered and had escaped daunger hée made this Psalme by the whiche hée did not onelye declare the thankfulnesse of hys minde towards god but also commended this myracle to his posteritie that all men being in daunger by his example should call vpon God and looke for vndoubted helpe at his hande It was a common custome among the auncient fathers in olde time to commit the diuine miracles into publik verses and psalmes which is an acceptable kynde of seruice of God as testifieth the Psalmist I wil praise the name of God with a song and will magnifie him and it shall please God more than a