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A46743 A practical exposition of the historical prophesie of Jonah delivering sundry brief notes in a cursory way concerning the mind of the Holy Ghost in the several passages. Imprimatur. June 5. 1665. Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678. 1666 (1666) Wing J550B; ESTC R217032 159,232 228

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A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE Historical Prophesie OF JONAH Delivering sundry brief Notes in a Cursory way concerning the mind of the Holy Ghost in the several Passages Hard things exercise the Reader Plain things nourish him Imprimatur June 5. 1665. LONDON Printed by L. Miller for John Chandler Bookseller in Reading 1666. To the Right Worshipful my much honored Friend The Lady Cecilia Knollys All Health and Happiness in the Lord. IT is a very comfortable priviledge good Madam vouchsafed to sincere and faithful Christians that being planted in the house of the Lord Psal 92.14 they shall still bring forth fruit in old age when other trees grow doddick and past fruit-bearing these trees of Righteousness by a singular blessing from God shall be able to yield the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5 21. for the honor of God who planted them and for the good of that Christian community whereof they are members They are more in prayer and more in magnifying the grace whereby they stand more in their meditations of God and the things of God more in their preparations for death and for an entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of Jesus Christ more in imparting experiences of the gracious dealings of God with themselves and others for helping the troubled spirits of their brethren more free in Alms-deeds and all good uses according to ability more mortified to the world and to their passions more profitable to the Church in whose prosperity they rejoyce and grieve in the adversity and better redeem the time whereof they see so little remaining Though they be infested with their infirmities of old age and with divers incumbrances of the world yet even in old age they mind the doing of good yea more good then they were wont to do as willing to the uttermost while they may to shew forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous 1 Pet. 2 9. light The recompence of reward draws nearer and nearer and in little time will be fully in their possession therefore for the inch of time that remains in this tabernacle they will work as fast as they can with all faithfulness carefulness and chearfulness And this their priviledge stands upon sundry unmoveable grounds as The eternal love and counsel of God who enables them to persevere and be fruitful The meritorious intercession and powerful grace of Jesus Christ John 15.5 in whom they are as branches in their Vine The effectual working of Gods blessed Spirit who is promised to abide with them for ever 14.16 The immortal and incorruptible seed of the word 1 Pet. 1.13 whereof they are born again and cannot perish for ever The faithful and stedfast Covenant of grace Jer. 32.40 which as it engageth God never to depart from them but do them good so it warrants them fresh abilities that they shall never depart from their God together with promises in particular and divers helps both to hold out to the end and to bring forth fruit still in old age This I write good Madam to comfort you in this your age and against the many infirmities which accompany it The Lord adde unto your days abundantly and give you yet to see the peace of his Jerusalem Many good fruits you have born already and we rejoyce in seeing them your love to the House and Ordinances of God which sometimes you frequent with danger to your health your love to godly Ministers whom you esteem worthy of double honour the religious ordering of your Family the careful observation of the Lords Day which with many is almost out of request the large provision you make weekly for poor people with other good fruits which will abound to your account in that great day of Jesus Christ Phil. 4.17 Go on good Madam and never be weary in well-doing Gal. 6.9 in due time you shall reap if you faint not and according to the premisses you shall be sure in this holy way never to faint for the way of the Lord is strength to the upright Prov. 10.29 and the whole stream of the Scriptures runs for your encouragement At this time I make bold to present your Ladyship with these brief and plain Meditations and pray your acceptance as from one who desires to acknowledge the grace of God in you and to help you along to the end of your course with much joy and assurance humbly taking my leave in present and unto death remaining Your Ladyships obliged William Jemmat To the Practitioner in Religion GOod friend here I present thee with a few plain and familiar Observations on the Book of Jonah Learned and eloquent Discourses he that is willing may find in those great Masters of our Israel A. Abbot B. King who many yeares ago wrote on this Prophesie which yet is rather an History And this present endeavour needed not but to revive those Notions which lie hid from the most and plain people will best relish plain and short Discourses Yet if we consider the matters herein contained we shall find some of them lofty Hieron proem in Jonam and fit for deep meditations Some Hebrew Doctors say that this Jonah was son of the widow of Sarepta whom Eliahs raised from the dead which if it be true we meet with a wonder both strange and not exemplified in any other Here are three resurrectians for one Saint first in that he was raised by the Prophet Eliah next that he recovered out of the belly of the Whale wherein he was a figure of our Saviours resurrection and last of all Mat. 12.39.40 that in the generall resurrection he shall come again with his body and for ever be with the Lord. It is also a wonder in this Book that the providence of our God is so present with his people and of so large extent among the creatures both small and great It is a wonder that Jonah should so long subsist in the Whales belly and at three dayes end be set on land again and do the message which formerly he had so stifly refused to do It is a wonder that in a little time he reaped more fruit of his Ministry among heathenish Ninevites then in a long time he had reaped among Gods own people It is a wonder that after his miraculous deliverance out of the Fish and after his holy resolutions to be wholly for the Lord yet he should be stout and sturdy about the sparing of Nineve the Lord bespeaking him very mildely and he replying upon the Lord very peevishly Christian there is something to be pickt out of these and other passages for thy edification Let the brevity of the Notes occasion thee to fall into large meditations and applications to thine own soul And let the plainnesse of them which saves the labour of farther inquiry occasion thee to deal the more seriously with thy conscience that thou mayest be brought to an entire estate of faith