Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…

Somewhat the like we may observe in the King of Nineveh and his people. There cometh Jonah a Jew, ^*a mere stranger among them, and telleth them, that not within an hundred years, but ^twithin ^uforty days Nineveh the greatest, the strongest, the chief, the head City of the whole world, a great part whereof the King thereof then commanded, should be utterly destroyed. Had Jonah come to London, and there preached the like some fortnight or three weeks before that Powder-plot was to have been executed, who would have believed it? or ⟨p. 93⟩thought it a thing credible, yea or possible almost? And yet we know well how near we were to an utter subversion, if God in mercy had not prevented mans malice. But ^xthe Ninevites, as well Prince as People, though they saw no preparation towards, no enemy at hand, no likelihood of any sudden invasion, or of subversion by other means, taking Jonah, as he was indeed, for a Prophet of God, believed him on his word, and ^yby their repentance and humiliation, prevented that which otherwise had been.

Somewhat the like wee may obserue in the King of Nineueh and his people. There commeth Ionas a Iew, ^*a meere stranger among them, and telleth them, that not within an hundred yeeres, but ^twithin ^ufortie daies Niniueh the greatest, the strongest, the chiefe, the head Citie of the whole world, a great part whereof the King thereof then commanded, should be vtterly destroyed. Had Ionas come to London, and there preached the like some fortnight or three weekes before that Powder-plot was to haue beene executed, who would haue beleeued it? or