Two sermons, of Jonahs punishmentTwo sermons, of Ionahs punishment

and some ⟨image 11⟩raise great disputations, whether this Saint or that Saint, this Angel or that Angel be better: whether our Lady of Bullen, or our Lady of Rome be surest: whether Saint James of Calais, or Saint James of Compostella be strongest: and so like beggars which run from door to door, they run from one Saint to another. If one God will not help, another will, think these, as though the Gods were contrary one to another, and where the one bids the other forbids. So some thought that Venus was a friend to the Trojans, and Pallas was not their friend; as fools think of Witches, one strikes, another heals.

and some ⟨image 11⟩raise great disputations, whether this Saint or that Saint, this Angell or that Angell be better: whether our Ladie of Bullen, or our Lady of Rome bee surest: whether Saint Iames of Callis, or Saint Iames of Compostella bee strongest: and so like beggers which run from doore to doore, they run from one Saint to another. If one God will not helpe, another will, thinke these, as though the Gods were contrarie one to another, and where the one bids the other forbids. So some thought that Venus was a friend to the Troianes, and Pallas was not their friend; as fooles thinke of Witches, one strikes, another heales.

Call upon thy God.

Call vpon thy God.

They bid him call upon his God, before they knew him ¹but the faithful would not worship a false God, though they may be helped by him. By the example of these mariners, if they thought that their God was the true God (& why else did they worship him:) we may learn the substance of every temptation that doth undermine us, namely, that it will bid us do this evil, that good may come