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Jonah the messenger of Ninevehs repentance Set forth in his calling, rebellion, and punishment.…Ionah the messenger of Ninevehs repentance Set forth in his calling, rebellion, and punishment.…
Jonah the messenger of Ninevehs repentance Set forth in his calling, rebellion, and punishment. By H.S.Ionah the messenger of Ninevehs repentance Set forth in his calling, rebellion, and punishment. By H.S.
London: printed by G. Miller for G. Edwards, 1637
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Thus Jonah tempted repents not, but makes himself a run-away, leaves Nineveh still on the score. So Nineveh is still Nineveh, but Jonah is not like Jonah, for the Prophet is flying, and sin is crying, and so all falls to confusion.
Thus Ionah tempted repents not, but makes himselfe a run-away, leaves Nineveh still on the score. So Nineveh is still Nineveh, but Ionah is not like Ionah, for the Prophet is flying, and sinne is crying, and so all falls to confusion.
He first flies to Tarshish before he went to Nineveh. Sin is borne first. Esau before Jacob, Gen. 15. 26, 27. Evil may be said to be ancienter, ⟨p. 50⟩resist sin at the first, nip it in the head, that the unclean spirit may say here is no abiding for me, let us go into yonder herd of Swine, Mat. 8. 31.
Hee first flies to Tarshish before he went to Nineveh. Sinne is borne first. Esau before Iacob, Gen. 15. 26, 27. Evill may be said to bee ancienter, ⟨p. 50⟩resist sinne at the first, nip it in the head, that the uncleane spirit may say here is no abiding for me, let us goe into yonder herd of Swine, Mat. 8. 31.
Jonah was sent to Nineveh, but he went toward Tarshish. And so it is always with us, we are ever doing that we should not do. For either we do nothing, or that which we are not commanded, or else otherwise then we are commanded. Sometime most rebelliously we do that which we