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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…
The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of the Church of God in Geneva, upon the prophet Jonah, by N.B. student in Divinity. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. John, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of the Church of God in Geneua, vpon the prophet Ionas, by N.B. student in Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. Iohn, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.
London: printed by J. Charlewood for Edward White, 1578
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vers. 3 The text. ¶For thou haddest cast me into the bottom in the middest of the Sea, and the floods compassed me about, all thy surges and all thy waves passed over me.
vers. 3 The text. ¶For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middest of the Sea, and the flooddes compassed me about, al thy surges and al thy waues passed ouer me.
Calvin. I Read this place oppositely, that is, that Jonah here for amplification sake declareth his estate. This was sure a great thing, out of the belly of the Fish to cry unto God: but far more difficile a thing it was, to lift up his mind to prayers, when as yet he might make a coumpt that God was his enemy & against him. For admit that he might call upon God being cast into extreme dangers, but when it came into his mind, that whatsoever evil he suffered, was laid upon him from above, because he endeavoured to flee away from the calling of God, how could he pierce through with prayer even unto the heavens, when such a let came ⟨p. 34⟩between? We see therefore to what end his words tendeth, when he saith. But thou haddest cast me into the deep, even to the middest of the Sea, the floods compassed me, all thy waves and surges passed over me. Briefly, Here Jonah showeth, what grievous tentations were laid upon him, while he endeavoured to think upon prayers: For this came first into his mind that God was his utter enemy. For Jonah then never made a coumpt that he was cast into the Sea by the Mariners and the rest, but his mind was throughly fixed in God. This is the reason why he saith, Thou Lord haddest cast me into the bottom, in the heart or middest of the Sea: Again, Thy surges and thy waves, &c. Here he respecteth not the nature of the Sea: but as I have said, he setteth all his senses on God alone, and acknowledgeth that he hath to do with him, as if he should say: Thou O Lord dost put me to flight, or drivest me away in persecuting me, and yet I approach unto thee. Thou in fearful sort doest show that thou art offended, and yet I beseech thee: so far are these terrors from pulling me far from thee, that as I were pricked forward, I come willingly unto thee, because there is not else where for me any hope of salvation. Now therefore we see of what force this Antithesis, or Oppositio, is when as Jonah setteth that terrible punishment that he sustained, against his prayer. Now let us go forward.