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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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But such was not the mind of Jonah: therefore when that Jonah saith that he prayed, generally he testifieth that he was not so murmuring and disobedient unto God, but that he retained some seed of godliness & obedience in his mind. Well: Jonah prayed, and hereby it followeth (as I have already ⟨image 67⟩said) that many prayers of holy men are corrupt, which if they be stretched to the lawful reach, they shall be worthily refused But the Lord for his mercy sake forgiveth those sins, so that these unquiet and troublesome prayers, retain and hold still their title and estimation.
But such was not the minde of Ionas: therfore when that Ionas sayth that he prayed, generallie he testifieth that he was not so murmuring and disobedient vnto God, but that he retained some seede of godlinesse & obedience in his mind. Well: Ionas praied, and hereby it followeth (as I haue already ⟨image 67⟩sayde) that many prayers of holie men are corrupt, which if they be stretched to ye lawful reach, they shalbe worthelie refused But the Lorde for his mercie sake forgeueth those sinnes, so that these vnquiet and troublesome prayers, retaine and holde styll their tytle and estimation.
Now he saith: I beseech thee O Lord, was not this my speech. Here Jonah declareth evidently why he took it grievously, that Nineveh should be delivered from subversion: even because by this means he should be taken for a false and lying Prophet. But this may seem absurd, that the Prophet set more by, or made more account of his own fame, then of the glory of God. For in this doth the glory of God chiefly shine, that he is appeased, so soon as men repent: and also in that he offereth himself to be a father unto them. Ought Jonah to have preferred his estimation before the glory of God? I answer that the Prophet so was not addicted to him self, but that always the study of the glory of God obtained the highest degree in his mind: this is certain. But he joined his ministry with the glory of God, and worthily: because it depended upon his authority. Jonah when he entered into Nineveh, he cried not as a private man, but professed that he was sent from God.