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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14278	Ionah's contestation about his gourd In a sermon deliuered at Pauls Crosse. Septemb. 19. 1624. By R.V. preacher of Gods Word.	Vase, Robert.	1625 (1625)	STC 24594; ESTC S119027	48,155	72

rage of thy wrath behold every one that is high and abase him Fretfull Ionah angry Ionah pettish Ionah foolish Ionah whom doest thou provoke stand now to thy cause and consider wisely what argument thou takest in hand and doe not darken counsell by words without knowledge which was Iobs fault before thee and ought of thee more advisedly to be confidered now that it comes to be thy case But it fares with Ionah as with a man borne downe with a violent streame the law of his members is at this time so powerfull in him that there is little and no appearance of the life of grace Consider the degrees and first His affirmation Yea saith Ionah he doth not conceale his inward heate as if it would burne his heart out if he should Jonah had but little time to confider betweene the question by the Lord put vnto him and the answere by him to be made and the fury of his inward passions the while raging no great maruaile if some distempered heate appeare and he answere out of reason A man who is in a tempest at the sea hath not while the tempest lasteth the government either of himselfe or any thing about him and thus is Ionah the second time losed in the surging seas of his owne passions The which may teach vs therefore to doe nothing while the heate of the passion lasteth but vpon premeditated tearmes For what when it flyes in the face of God what will not anger dare to doe Occiderem te saith one ni iratus sim I would kill thee but that I am angry with thee whereas we know not how to fight in other temper and never strike but in our anger like the Emperour Iustinian the second who beeing deprived of his nose by Leoncius his predecessour vpon every remembrance of that iniury caused some friend or other of that Emperour to loose a nose or be slaine But I list not to stand vpon this since Ionah contents not himselfe with one poore word yea nor with a simple expression but proceeds to a iustification a deepe aggravation of his anger according to the division before remembred Yet truly thus farre can I not choose but take notice that albeit this very one word ought not once to have beene conceived in the breast of Ionah yet more tolerable had bin his fault if here he had rested and suppress't all further commotion of his vnguided spirit And therefore here by way of passage vnto the next point learne we that advice of Salomon Chap. 30. If thou have done foolishly in lifting vp thy selfe or if thou have thought evill lay thine hand vpon thy mouth and stoppe thine anger before it proceede too farre For as followeth in the same place the much churning of milke changeth it into an other nature and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood so the forcing of wrath in the end commonly bringeth forth strife strife blood-shed blood-shed death oftentimes and perill of eternall destruction to the name person or posteritie of such who give themselves over to the government of this fury A cholericke man for this cause or he that gives easie passage to his anger is not vnfitly compared to a man dwelling in a thatcht house who being therein rich in the morning sets it all on a light fire before the evening for Anger slaies the foolish saith Salomon Therefore once againe quench it while it is a sparke which is not so easily done after it hath got head shut the flood-gates before the streame grow too violent and beare downe all before it But what should Ionah doe must he not answere to the Lords question for the Lord doth aske him if he doe well to be angry and since that so he is and so thinketh as good speake it as dissemble I finde the same question before in the fourth verse put vnto Ionah by the Lord in the same manner yet I meete not there with any word of Ionah by way of answere exprest Belike as there he was sullen and would not so now being thorowly heated with this fire he cannot refraine any longer but must out with it He continued as should seeme from that time to this saving only a little Interim for one nights rest like vnto a greene peece of wood or chubbed blocke which lies over a few coales smoaking and smouldring but now the moysture being well suckt out he breakes into a light flame and spits and spartles fire against the Lord note his manner in the second specialtie of his speech 2. His peremptory Asseveration or Iustification I doe well to be angry It was a milde saying of Augustus the Emperour to one of his souldiers desirous to be dismissed his armie but wanting a iust and honest excuse to his friends at his returne home say saith the Emperour that I have angried thee But what shall I say to thee Ionah who art angry not in shew but in deede who vndertakest to iustifie thy anger and that not against an earthly Emperour but against such a great King who casteth out the glory of all earthly Kingdomes and Empires like the clay in the streets I know not surely well what to say to it yet this I am sure of that mightie Cedars I see sometimes to be mightily shaken that he who thinketh hee standeth may looke better to his standing Wee have a pregnant example in Ionah here a chosen man in Israel and one of the worthies of God I 'le speake no more then what I know yet my knowledge herein I must confesse is ledde into a wonderment when I consider as I finde it Now in that heavenly Chorus next vnto those glorious Cherubins and Seraphins who continually doe cry Holy Holy Holy we shall doe well to ranke the glorious company of the Apostles and after them the goodly fellowship of the Prophets and next to these the noble Armies of the Martyrs And why say I this thing that you may also wonder together with mee when I have showne vnto you what I have observed from the great weakenesse in this kinde of the holy and most honoured Prophets of God When you shall behold such who have commanded the waters had power over fire who have travelled the sea rode in the ayre subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnesse beene renowned in their times and left the glory of their names vnto posterities these I say to have beene conquering and prevailing over all outward force yet of their owne vnruly appetites to be brought into subiection or of their inward passions to have beene mainely foyled Yea I have not yet discovered the whole truth for I must needs say that I have found none as comparable to the Prophets in the abovesaid respects so like them none to have beene transported in the like measure or carryed with such disordered violence as these and those who have received the best testimonies from and beene graced with the greatest honour from his hand Let vs cast our eyes from Ionah the most