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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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Chap. 4.
Calvin. This sorrow of Jonah, Hierome doth commend, and compareth it unto the sacred zeal of Paul, which wished that he might be accursed for his brethren. Rom. 9.3. He denieth that Jonah sorrowed, that God would have mercy upon so famous a City? But because the Conversion of the Gentiles should be a certain foreshow of the destruction of the elected people. And therefore because Jonah as it were in a glass beheld the destruction of Israel now near at hand, therefore he sorrowed, if we will believe Hierom: but that is to to frivolous. For a little after. God rebuketh Jonah for it, what shall then the foolish and childish defence of Hierom, ease the Prophet, seeing that God pronounceth that he doth wickedly, because he sorrowed. Nay, rather the blockishness of Hierom is reprehended (for so may I speak of the man, who although he was learned and painful, yet he deprived him self of that praise, which otherwise worthily he might have gotten.) For his perverse nature every way bewrayeth it self, even as he is openly reprehended by and by, in the very Text, where Jonah evidently declareth that there was another cause of his sorrow, even because he would not seem, or be thought a false Prophet, or a liar: And for this cause was his grief and bitterness such. But this sorrow (although God him self had not given sentence upon it) yet we see it had been wicked and far from all reason.