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Two sermons, of Jonahs punishmentTwo sermons, of Ionahs punishment
Two sermons, of Jonahs punishment ; Four sermons preached by Master Henry Smith ; and published by a more perfect copy then heretofore.Two sermons, of Ionahs punishment ; Foure sermons preached by Maister Henry Smith ; and published by a more perfect copie then heretofore.
London: printed by T.D. for Cuthbert Burby, 1607
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And he was fast a sleep.
And he was fast a sleepe.
See how little Jonah is ashamed of his sin: all the world smarted for it, and yet he sleeps: as if he should say, Neither the winds blowing, nor the waters roaring 1nor the ship reeling, nor the wares casting, nor the Mariners crying, with all the stir, could move him, waken him from his sleep, or rail him from his sin. Now Jonah might say, I was a sleep, and all might have perished for me, if one God had not helped more then all the rest: for Jonah slept, but God waked, and called to the winds and the waters, saying, Toss him, but you shall not drown him: fear him, but you shall not kill him: whip him, and when you have whipped him, send him to me, that I may send him to Nineveh. Jonah was fast a sleep, when the winds over him were blowing, the waters under him tossing the ship about him reeling, the Mariners by him crying, the wares in over-board casting, In all the stir Jonah felt nothing, but slept, as if there were no stirring Yet we go far beyond Jonah in security, for the Lord causeth the tempest to blow down houses beside us, the heavens to thunder over us, the earth quake under us, the water to over-flow the land about us the fire to consume all that we have before us, the air with cold ready to kill us, and all things in an uproar round about against us thereby, always crossing us one way or another, and all to put us in mind of our duty, the neglect whereof is the cause of all these troubles which the Lord doth send us: ⟨image 8⟩but we sleep more deadly then Jonah in our negligence, void of feeling, because we consider not what we have done, we look not back on our sin yet every cross should cause us to examine our selves throughly, and leave no sin unviewed, that we might lively feel our wickedness, and so duly repent it, and soon find release of our miseries: therefore if we sleep still, and will not be wakened, God will deal more roughly with us then he did with Jonah, for the Lord caused a Whale to swallow him, and afterward to cast him up again, but we shall be swallowed of that serpent which never restoreth again.