Two sermons, of Jonahs punishmentTwo sermons, of Ionahs punishment

The means which the Mariners use to save themselves, are divers. First, they cry to their gods, then when that appeased not the tempest, they cast out then wares, They prayed. This is then a manifest sign, that the Heathen acknowledge there is a divine power, seeing and governing the whole world: for they would not have prayed at all, but that they were convinced, there was a God, who beheld the affairs of men, and could in extremest danger deliver whom he would. Nature convinced them, the works of God made them to acknowledge it. For in man, though the Lamps be wasted since Adam consulted with the devil to be a God, yet there is some little light left which dwelleth in darkness like a spark hid in the ashes, whereby the stately and most glorious frame of the world, with all the wonderful variety of the singular effects of all the excellent creatures therein considered, man cannot but acknowledge there ⟨image 5⟩is a God. Yea his mighty power the blinded Gentiles saw so expressly in all the creatures, that they imagined it to be impossible for one God to work them all: therefore they thought that there were divers Gods, as there were divers seasons, divers nations, divers trades, divers languages, divers and sundry kinds of all things: and so divers nations worshipped divers Gods, When the wicked see that all their inventions will not bring their enterprises to pass according to their mind, but they are in extremity and like to be cast away for want of succour, then they fly unto God, being driven by compulsion as a bear unto a stake, and they crouch and kneel, & make great shows outwardly, of humiliation and piety, all in hope of help from God, and as it were thinking to deceive him by their hypocrisy,

The meanes which the Mariners vse to saue themselues, are diuers. First, they cry to their gods, then when that appeased not the tempest, they cast out then wares, They prayed. This is then a manifest signe, that the Heathen acknowledge there is a diuine power, seeing and gouerning the whole world: for they would not haue prayed at all, but that they were conuinced, there was a God, who beheld the affaires of men, and could in extreamest danger deliuer whom hee would. Nature conuinced them, the workes of God made them to acknowledge it. For in man, though the Lampes be wasted since Adam consulted with the deuill to bee a God, yet there is some little light left which dwelleth in darkenesse like a sparke hid in the ashes, whereby the stately and most glorious frame of the world, with all the wonderfull varietie of the singular effects of all the excellent creatures therin considered, man cannot but acknowledge there