The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of…The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of…

For it is not taken as it is oftentimes otherwhere, or in the proper signification thereof: but fear is transferred unto worship: I saith he, am not given to strange superstitions, but have been instructed in true piety: God hath revealed himself unto me from mine infancy. I therefore adore none Idol, as almost all Nations have forged or invented Gods for them selves: but I worship God the creator of heaven and earth. He calleth him, God of the heavens, that is, which only dwelleth in the heavens, & seeing that others imagined heaven to be stuffed with a great multitude of Gods. Here Jonah setteth against them one only God: as if he should say, Feign for your pleasure an innumerable company of gods, yet is there one which beareth the chief principality in the heavens: he also it is which Made the Sea and the dry land. Now then ⟨p. 20⟩we perceive what Jonah intendeth by these words. For even here he declareth that it is no marvel, if so grievously God doth persecute him, for that he hath not perpetrated any light offence, but a deadly sin. Now we see how greatly Jonah profited, when the Lord began to handle him roughly. For being sleepy as he was, yea rather senseless in his sin, he had never repented but by this so violent a remedy. But, when the Lord by his severity had awaked him, by and by not only he confesseth himself guilty, or lightly acknowledgeth his fault, but we see how that willingly, and that unto profane men, he confesseth him self to be wicked, even such a one as hath fallen away from the true God, in the worship of whom he so well had been instructed. This is the fruits of true repentance: and this also is the fruit of the chastisement which the Lord laid upon him. Therefore if we will have our repentance to be allowed of God, let us not give back, as is the common use: neither yet let us make light of our sins, but with a free confession, let us testify before all the world what we have deserved. It followeth after, that those men feared with a great fear: and said, Wherefore hast thou done this? for they knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. This thing is of some weight, That the Shipmen feared with great fear.

For it is not taken as it is oftentimes otherwhere, or in the proper signification therof: but feare is transferred vnto vvorship: I sayth he, am not geuen to strange superstitiōs, but haue bene instructed in true pietie: God hath reuealed himselfe vnto me from mine infancie. I therefore adore none Idoll, as almost all Nations haue forged or inuented Gods for them selues: but I worship God the creatour of heauen and earth. He calleth him, God of the heauens, that is, which onely dwelleth in the heauens, & séeing that others imagined heauen to be stuffed with a great multitude of Gods. Here Ionas setteth against them one onely God: as if he shoulde saye, Fayne for your pleasure an innumerable company of gods, yet is there one which beareth the chiefe principalitie in the heauens: he also it is which Made the Sea and the drie lande. Nowe then