k Or for, ſo the Gallick Verſion, Printed at Rochel, 1616. - 1 Deli- verers, literally the Governours or Leaders of thoſe Captive Troops, who shall come up from Babylon to their own Country,luch as Zerubba- bel, Exra, Nehemiah, of whom twas ſaid he came to ſeek the Good of the Fews. Neb, 2. 10, and ſucceſſively after theſe many others to the times of Zircanus and the Maccabees z myſtically Chriſt and his Apoſtles and other Preachers of the Goſpel, m Literally with Leave and Com- miſhon from the ings of Perſia, ſuch as Cyrus, and Darius Hyſtaſpie, to manage the Affa'irs of the returned Captives. # In Fudea, at Feru- ſalem and the Temple, and whatever might concern them with their Neigkbours round about. 0 To avenge J/ael upon Zdom, to fight, ſubdue, and give Laws to them, as #ircanus did when the Edomztes were glad to be circumciſed to keep their Country. p The whole Country ſo. called from the Father of that Nation, who choſe thoſe Mountainous Countries for his Habitation, as moſt ſutable to his wild rambling Humour, which delighted in hunting. q The Government, called here the Xzngdom, ſhall manifeſtly appear to be ſet up, main- tained and proſpered by a Power, Wiſdom and Goodnels greater than humane. » The God of J{rae], who is Fehovah, shall be honour'd, obey'd and worship'd by them, and they $shall not as formerly rely on Idols or Foreign Aids. All which moſt fully is accomplish'd by Chriſt the Saviour, and now known in the Chriſtian Church, who do
Foſephus, Lib, 13, chap. 17. reports the Matter thus, that the 7dumeans were commanded either to depart the Country, or be circumciſed,
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believe he will, and pray that he would fave his S70n, and deſtroy Edom, t. e, Antichriſt and his Kingdom,
though it appear not whether he was born in Gath- called to go Envoy to the great City Nineveh ; for of the carry in it the CharaFer of ſome Grace or Vertue which was of the Perſon. Amittai in the Hebr. My Truth : though Jonah a Dove by Name, ard God tells us by Jonah's Pen, He 1s the Son of
by Elijah to anoint Jehu, Eliſha and Hazael, monſtrated, would be of no great moment or uſe yet) he was imploy'd a Prophet in Iſrael before be was Proſperous Succeſſes of Jeroboam the Second, enlarging whether he appeared a Prophet before Jeroboam's ſure we may date his time, and range him among the firſt by this alſo we may gueſs who was the King of Allyria, Parchs : Jt admits a diſpute, whetber it was Sardanapa
| 4 retiredneſs of Sardanapalus reported in Hiſtory, ſeems
time, of in the beginning of bis Retgn. of the Prophets who have left their intire Volumes behind them, who gave ſuch a rare Example of Repentance to ail ſucceeding o- lus or Beleſus, otherwiſe Phul Belocus, aud Phul mm Scripture
Hiſtory ., if the time do not beſt ſute to the latter (as 1 think it may) rather than to the former, yer 1 am ſure the unparal-
The ARGUMENT,
UR Prophet himſelf by both his Father's Name, and by his Country : of this latter no great doubt 15 raiſed, ' —_—_——— hs or whether *twas the Place of bus abode, when he was
former ſome do enquire whether it be an aſſumed Name, and
eminently in the Man, or whether it were the proper Name
denotes Truth, Veracity or Faith; with the Pronoun Poſztive of the firſt Perſon, denounce dreadful things againſt Nineveh, yet be doth it as God's Prophet 3 his Truth, Whether Obadiah were bis _— = _— = == cant Name Amittai given him for bis owning the Truth of God, and his true Prophets, in the times of Ahabd's Apoſta- Oy; and Cs * fother be that Witew, whoſe = Elijah did raiſe from the dead ; whether he were the Perſon ſent as the Jewiſh Y//riters affirm, is of no certain demonſtrability, and if de- to us : It is clear that (though this be the only Book left under his Name, ſent into Alſyria ;, for 2 King. 14. 26. be propheſied the future and eſtabliſhing the Borders of Iſrael ; yet 1s it 10! certam to us,
Not far from this time we are
to me a reaſon why it muſs be ſome IMonarch, that more like a
CATCPNath and the captivity of Jeruſalem f || which 75 in Sepharad g, ſhall poſſe the Cities h of the | Or,sha!
poſſeſs rhax mwhichis im Sepharai,
*1Tim.4> 16, Jam» 5. 20,
* Luke Is
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a gallant Man, lived more free, open, and of eaſy Acceſs, that the News might, as 'tis ſuggeſted it did, come ty his
phet : Upon this be declines the Embaſ[ly ; him on his Work, and ſucceeds it, he grows paſſionate, and
racle bath ſet Y b yet falls to Sin, and falls under the Ruine foretola by
Nineveh, (mwhzc
* Matt.12. 39. Fonas,
*Ezra 9.6
| Rev. 18.5.
X* Toſh.19. 6
4&6. 2Chron 2. I6,
+ Hcb.caf? forth.
+ Heh. thouckt to be broken,
bearing in the firſt Day ;, ſuch Temper, the Succeſs be did find ;, be thought ſo elſe if they believed him, then they would
i is like, Phul Belochus was of: YYhoever was the King, Jonah little expege4 great a King and City would not mind him, or elſe would geride or puniſh bim ;, of repent, God would ſpare them, ang Jonah would be cried out on as a falſe Prg. and till God taught him his Duty in little eaſe, he will not doit. VFhen a 7yj.
will die : God ſpares and pardons him” as well Nahum) and ſo leaves him a Type of Chriſfs Buri,
and RefurreF1on, and an Inſtance how far a good Man may ſometime be from his Duty, and that great Paſſions may be in ;
Prophet,
CHAP. LI.
Fonah, ſent by Gol to preach at Nineveh, flieth to Tharſis, 1--3. and #. purſued by God with a great tempeſt ; Fe is diſcovered by a lot 10 have cauſed it,q---12. Tbe mariners pray and ſacrifice ; and on Fonahs advice, caſt him into the ſea,and the ſtorm ceaſeth, 12--15. God appoints a great fiſh to ſwallow him up 3 in whoſe belly he abides three days and three nights, 17s
To OW. a the word of the LORD b came c unto * Junah d the ſon of Amittai e, ſaying, a And Hebr. b Which is a uſual Deſcription of Prophecy ; what
God had to ſpeak againſt Nineveh, he here does reveal to Fonah with
Command that he publiſh it to thoſe concerned in it, c Or, was with, d Called Fonas, Ink, 11. 30. which ſignifieth « Dove: he was of Garth Hepher, a Town of Zebulon, 2 Kings 14+ 25. but no more 15 added ; by which I conje&ure it was ſome obſcure Place, to which Fonah gave more Light than it could to him. e Of what Rank he was, appears 2 Ariſe f, gog to Nineveh h that great city z, and cry againſt it k; for * their wickedneſs is come up betore
me 0.