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A16000 The prophete Ionas with an introduccio[n] before teachinge to vndersto[n]de him and the right vse also of all the scripture, and why it was written, and what is therin to be sought, and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it, can not vndersto[n]de it, though he studie therin never so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened, that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man, from the true sense and vderstondynge therof.; Bible. O.T. Jonah. English. Tyndale. Tyndale, William, d. 1536. 1531 (1531) STC 2788; ESTC S115524 18,397 48

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Israel out of egypte in to y ● londe promised them ministreth the notable ensamples y t aboundātly a● doeth all y ● rest of the bible also How be it it is impossible for flesh to beleue to trust in y ● trueth of gods promises vntyll he haue lerned it in moch tribulacion after that God hath deliuered hī out therof agayne ¶ God therfore to teach Jonas to shew him his awne hert to make him perfecte to enstructe vs also bi his ensample sen● him out of y ● lande of Israel where he was a prophete to goo amonge y ● heathē people to y ● greatest mightiest citie of y ● world thē called Niniue to preache y t within xl dayes they shuld all perish for their sinnes that y ● citie shuld be ouerthrowē Which message y ● frewil of Jonas had as moch power to doo as the weakest herted womāin the world hath power if she were cōmaun ded to leppe in to a tobbe of lyuinge snakes edders as happely if God had cōmaunded Sara to haue sacrificed hir sonne Isaac as he did Abrahā she wold haue disputed with hī yer she had done it or though she were sirōge ynough yet many an holy seint coud not haue sound in their hertes but wold haue disobeyed ād haue runne awaye frō y ● presens of y t cōmaūdemēt of god w t Jonas if thei had bene so sirōgly tēpted ¶ For Jonas thought of this maner loo I am here a prophete vnto Gods people the Israelites Which though they haue gods word testified vnto them dayly yet dispite it worshepe God vnder y ● likenesse of calues after all maner facions saue after his awne worde therfore are of all naciōs y ● worst most worthy of punishment And yet god for loue of few y t are amonge them for his names sake spareth them defer● deth them How thē shuld god take so cruell vengeaunce on so greate a multitude of them to whome his name was neuer preached to ād therfore are not y ● tenth parte so euel as these If I shal therfore goo preach so shall I lye shame my selfe God the to and make them the moare to dispice god and sett the lesse by him ād to be the moar● cruell vn to his people ¶ And vppon that imaginaciō he fled frō the face or presens of God that is out of y ● contre where God was worsheped in frō prosecutynge of Gods cōmaundemēt and thought I wyll gett me a nother waye amonge y ● hethen people be no moare a prophete but lyue at rest out of all cōbraunce Neuer y ● lesse the god of all mercie which careth for his electe childern turneth al● vn to good to them smiteth thē to heale them agayne killeth thē to make thē al●ue agayne playeth with thē as a father doth some tyme with his yoūge ignoraunt childern tempteth them proueth them to make them se theyr awne hertes prouided for onas how all thinge shuld be ¶ When Jonas was entered in to the sheppe he layed him downe to slepe ād to take his rest that is his cōscience was tossed betwene the cōmaudemēt of God which sent him to Niniue his fleshly wisdome that dissuaded counseled hym y e cōtrary at y e last preualed agēst y e cōmaundemēt caried hym a nother waye as a sheppe caught betwene ij streames as poetes faine the mother of Meliager to be betwene diuers affecciōs while to aduēge hir brothers deeth she sought to sle hir awne sonne Where vppon for very payne tediousnesse he laye downe to slepe for to put y e cōmaundement which so gnew freate his cōscience out of minde as y ● nature of all weked is whē they haue sinned a good to seke al meanes with riot reuell pastyme to driue y e remenbraunce of synne out of their thoughtes or as Adā did to couer their nakednesse with aporns of pope holy workes ▪ But God awoke hym out of his dreame and sett his synnes before his face ¶ For when y ● Lott had caught Jonas thē be sure y t his synnes came to remēbraunce agayne that his conscience raged no lesse thē y e waues of the se And thē he thought that he only was a sinner y e hethen that ware in y e shepp none in respecte of him ●o thought also as veryly as he was fled frō god that as verily god had cast hi awaye ▪ for y ● sight of y ● rod mal eth y ● natural child not ōly to se to knowlege his faulte but also to forgett all his fathers olde mercie kindnesse And then he cōfessed his synne openly had yet seuer perish alone thē y ● y ● other shuld haue perished with him for his sake and so of very desperacion to haue liued any lenger bad cast him in to y ● see betymes excepte they wold be lost also ¶ To speake of lottes how ferforth they are lawfull is a light questiō First to vse thē for the breakinge of strife as when partenars their goodes as equally diuided as they cā take euery mā his parte by lott to avoyde all suspiciō of disceytfulnesse as y ● appostles in y ● first of y ● Actes whē they sought a nother to succede Iudas the traytoure ij persones were presentes thē to breake strife to satisfie al parties did cast lott●es wheter shuld be admitted desirynge god to ●eper thē to take whō he knew most mete seynge they wist not wheter to preferre or haply coude not all agre on ether is lawfull ad in all like cases But to abuse them vn to y ● tempiinge of God to cōpell him therwith to vtter thinges wherof we stōd in doute when we haue no commaundemēt of him so to do as these hethē here dyd though God turned it vn to his glorie can not be but euell ¶ The hethen s●epinē asstonied at y ● sight of y ● miracle feared God prayed to him offered sacrifice vowed vowes And I doute not but that some of thē or haply all came therby vn to the true knowlege true worshepinge of God ware wōne to God in theyr soules And thꝰ God which is infinite mercifull in all his wayes wrought their soules health out of y ● infirmite of Ionas euen of his good will purpose loue wherewith he loued them before the world was made not of chaunce as it appereth vn to the eyes of the ignoraunt ¶ And that Jonas was .iij. dayes .iij. nightes in the bely of his fish we cā not ther by proue vn to te Iewes īfideles or vn to any man y ● Christ must therfore dye ād be buried rise agayne But we vse y ● ensample ād likenesse to strength the saith of the weake For he that beleaueth the