A15859:209
Speculum Christianum
Speculum Christianum or, A Christian survey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, grave, and learned divine, master Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseverance of the saints. 3. A summary abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.Speculum Christianum or, A Christian suruey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, graue, and learned diuine, maister Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseuerance of the saints. 3. A summarie abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.
London: printed by George Eld, 1614
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Mariners who c•rried th• Prophet Jo•a• to Tarsus, through •he horrible tempest being all thereby in peril of their li•es, did throw Jonah the Prophet into the se• and that was th•• both they and the sh•p might be preserved, as the story of ⟨p. 194⟩Jon•s reporteth. This they did both voluntarily and involuntarily▪ voluntarily, for if simply they had been• unwilling they had not cast […] into the sea, therefore were they willing to cast him in: involuntarily, first for that before the tempest arose, they never had in p••pose, •• not in thought to destroy him, but rather as honest men they intend•• and determined to convey hi• safe and sound to Tarsus; then after the tempest being risen, they we•• not presently possessed with […] thought at all, either to cast do•• him or any man else, or plunge the• into the sea, but rather so far as •• strength they could, they for a time by rowing encountered the waves of the sea: and the burden of the ship they cast into the sea to lighten the ship; likewise they called upon God finally also after Jonah had said, T••• me and cast me into the sea▪ and ••• tempest will be a calm; for I •••• for my sake this great str i […] upon you, and yet for all this the mariners