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Call upon thy God.

Call vpon thy God.

The mariners bid Jonah pray to his God ¹in their behalf, but Jonah saith not to the mariners pray to your gods in my behalf. And this is also manifest that a Papist will say unto a zealous Protestant, and one that lives well, pray for me, but a Protestant, if he be any thing zealous, will not say unto a Papist pray thou for me, knowing that when a Papist doth pray he doth it to Idols, Saints, ⟨p. 157⟩or Angels, and therefore their prayers are abominable in the sight of God, and therefore they will not bid them do it, because they will not do evil to the intent that good may come of it, whereby it is manifest that ²our Religion is the true Religion our adversaries them selves being judges. And so Pharaoh said to Moses pray for me, but Moses said not to Pharaoh pray thou for me. Saul said to Samuel pray for me: but Samuel said not to Saul pray thou for me; therefore the mariners had need of Jonah to pray for them, & why should not all pray to Jonahs God, and Pharaoh pray to Moses God, seeing God hath said call upon me in trouble and I will ³hear thee? Call upon thy God (say they). When they saw all the other gods would not help, they ran to another whom they knew not, yet hoping for to be helped by him, because they thought some God there was that could do it: so the Papists run from one god to another, from S. Dominic to S. Francis, & why should they run from S. Dominic to S. Francis, but that they mistrusted S. Dominic? and so they go forward, but in the end the unknown God is thought to be the best: yet the Lord taught not Peter one prayer and John another, but taught them all one prayer unto one only God.