Two sermons, of Jonahs punishmentTwo sermons, of Ionahs punishment

Arise & call upon thy God, if so be he will think upon us &c. This is another means which they use, Jonah being wakened, to appease the tempest, now that they see they cannot themselves allay the winds, nor assuage the waters, they desire, they exhort Jonah, to try what he can do by calling upon his God, Arise call upon thy God. &c.

Arise & call vpon thy God, if so be he will thinke vpon vs &c. This is another meanes which they vse, Ionah being wakened, to appease the tempest, now that they see they cannot themselues allay the windes, nor asswage the waters, they desire, they exhort Ionah, to try what hee can doe by calling vpon his God, Arise call vpon thy God. &c.

After that the ship-master had wakened Jonah he bids him call upon his God, as if he had said, Watch and pray: he speaks like a Saint, yet he is an Infidel he said not, Call upon our gods: but call upon thy God. The shipmaster would not call upon his God: but (saith he) Call up on thy God and it may be he will help us if he had said ⟨image 11⟩Call upon our God, when he said, call upon thy God: and if he had said, He will help us, when he said, if so he will help us then he had showed some spark of faith. Because he wanted help & comfort, he bids him arise, and because he was fearful, he bids him pray. It may be (saith he) he will think upon us, that we perish not. As if he had said, Jonah, we know that thou hast a God as well as we, and therefore we say, Call upon thy God, for now every God is to be tried, therefore if ever thou didst pray in thy life fall to it now. Thus Satan leads men a blind way with zeal, in hope of some relief being in trouble. They called upon them for help, which were neither willing to assist them, nor able to hear them, and when they perceived by woeful experience, that there was no kind of succour to be had that way, they fly to God, and then Satan laboureth to undermine that confidence and expectation of help, and to place in stead thereof doubtfulness and infidelity. Thus Satan will be sure to lose nothing by this bargain any way. Jonah (say they) call upon thy God, for if he cannot help us, we are all undone and lost for we have called upon all our gods, we have laboured hard to amend our state, we have cast away our goods to lighten the ship, but all in vain, for we are now! it the better, like the woman which had spent all her substance