An oversight, and deliberation upon the holy prophet JonahAn ouersight, and deliberacion vpon the holy prophete Ionas

Against whom speaketh Solomon, Proverbs .vii. He that quiteth the evil doer, and condemneth the innocent, be both execrable and damned before God.

Agaynste whom speaketh Salomon, Prouerbes .vii. He that quiteth the euyll doer, and cō demneth the innocent, be bothe execreable and damned before God.

Among the commune people ye shall also find many Jonasses, but that we may the better espy them out, we will divide them into the rustics or people of the country: & into the Citizens. Al & every country or husband man that liveth not of his labour, and giveth him self to Idleness, and so moveth sedition and treason against their lawful king and Magistrate, or privily ⟨p. xlii⟩in their conventicles, and assemblies speak evil, curse, or provoke any thing against their magistrates, they can nor will learn, nether to know god, nether to obey there prince: these be those among this sort of people ye be Jonasses, & troubleth the state of this realm. Among the Citizens be a great number that trouble the ship also, as adulterous unpunished, the fraud and guile of the merchandise, idleness the Mother of all mischief, theft, murder, blasphemous oaths, conspiracy and treason with open slander and rebuke of God's most holy word. These things and such like tosseth the poor ship ye hardly she can sail above the water. ⟨image 52⟩And so displeaseth the Majesty of God, that he will never cease from sending of tempests, till those Jonasses be amended, or caste into the sea.

Among the cōmune people ye shal also find many Ionasses, but yt we maye the better espye thē out, we wyl deuide them into the rustikes or people of the contrye: & into the Citizens. Al & euery contry or housbād mā that liueth not of his laboure, and geueth hym selfe to Idlenes, and so moueth seditiō and treason agaynste theyr lawfull kyng and Magestrate, or priuely ⟨p. xlii⟩