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But the Prophet goes from Samaria to Nineveh, that was, both to shake off the dust of his feet, to witness against them their obstinacy and hardness of heart: and secondly, to let them see that the wicked Gentiles were more righteous then they, in that they repented at the voice of one Prophet; yea and that with one sermon: whereas themselves refused, and resisted all the holy and worthy Prophets that God sent unto them. And thirdly, it may be to signify, that the Jews for their contempt and negligence should be rejected: and the Gentiles should be received into the favour of God, that they might be an holy and sanctified people unto the Lord in their trouble.

But the Prophet goes from Samaria to Niniuie, that was, both to shake off the dust of his feete, to witnesse against them their obstinacie and hardnes of heart: and secondly, to let them see that the wicked Gentiles were more righteous then they, in that they repented at the voyce of one Prophet; yea and that with one sermon: whereas themselues refused, and resisted all the holy and worthy Prophets that God sent vnto them. And thirdly, it may bee to signifie, that the Iewes for their contempt and negligence should be reiected: and the Gentiles should be receiued into the fauor of God, that they might bee an holy and sanctified people vnto the Lord in their trouble.

That great City.

That great Citie.

Nineveh had fifteen hundred towers in it, as some do ¹write, and a hundred & twenty thousand little children (as it is noted in the end of this story) therefore it may well be called a great City: but the greater it was, the more ungodly it was. For as one man taketh sickness of another: so one man is infected by the wicked words and ill example of another, and so taught to sin the more, till the measure of sin be full.