"he ſeag,andthe dry lend. 102” 01h ; aq p Jotab:trealyand readily; gives'account of himſelf, q One that 2n--gefcended> from ' Heber! whole: Of ſpring: by: /4brabam are well knos8,andpibbably:totheſt:Matiners : He faith-not k'Fer,becanſe he 2; not. id Strriinel3 of Speech ';/ for he was of the Tribe: of Zebutun, nor-ha {/aclitediftin gailhe fromthe Few, deft he ſhontd feem to own him(elf.ob thab idolatrous'Fatbioq 32 I warſhip and ſervethe'true:God obly; orpoſibly it may implythdthus Employmentwas in the imme- dare Seryioe'off God, as-.a'teligious::Perſon, [that had abdicated ths World, and:dedicated himſelfito God... s The.Eternal; and Almigh-i ty God;] yours/are: upſtare.Gutls, and have no'Powet or: Might, or can-theydo_any. thing; xWho-firft made, now. ruleth, and ever will rule 'the Hedvens,/which hone: bf'your Gods.can pretend to z thofe. Heartens froto whehce you feethis' Storm falleth, ... w That Sea which now threatens you for my Sake, and threatens me for my Sin: my” || | God hgth raiſed the Sea mihisiQuertel to contend thns furioully,and he ||
1; -- So Fafhne dealt with Aghun, Foſh. 7; ſatisfied in the Perſon, the Ship, endangered you all. _ 530 ao Th commendable Juſtice and Calmneſs efquire into the b. 4 Dis thing; What baſt thou-done,'for which God is To-ahgry- with thee, | be my fault if you be drowned.
now frankdy-tell 05. -7 What Tbdtfe of Life haft thow lived, or what {| God will puaiſh by that Juſtice which is, in this Place.
I ha 0 Tam aflure:l of this, and though ave been your Danger, and this was. my Fault, yet it ſhall nor Hh p For my Sin which God will Pu= A, but not by my. own Att, I muſt got leap 9ver-board, 'tis a'Crime And will be till you have executed God's Sentence = ab 7. TE TID
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1.£9-the land, but they could 6 noc ; for the ſea-wrought, 5** | and, was tempeſtuous againſt them #. ky. ; | 7-424 Heb,: but:rightly to the proper Senſe of the Phraſe rendred | here neverrhelefs, notwithſtanding the 5Lot fell on Fonah, he confeſſed |-Bis Fault, dixetts them'to caft him ovet+board, and in all this avoweth | Dimfelf to.be a Prophet -of Gad,. and afluresthem of a - calm Sea, if they do this ;;;yet. very willing to:faye him; $ They contrived all ways,andare' willing: to be at:any Labour tb ſave him they ply their \Oars, and ftrain their Strength with. Ueep Stroaksto force the Ship | toShore.: : t All was loft Labour, God had: given other Ordev to his | Servants, the Wind and . Sea both obey ſhjm,' and both keep Fonah a Priſoner, ſelf-condemned, and deſirous of what the Mariners were ye- Ty: nowilling t0«'::4 Vid, ver.'11: let. 2. the Sea toſs'd it ſelf more vio- tantly; and by unfteady Motions,like ſome Hurricane, every Momenc endangered them. *::. TE 2 Us 158 B42 "1 4' Wherefore = they cried.y unto the Lord z, and aid,
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2 When they ſaw'God approved the thing, and confirmed Fonah's 'Word, as of a true; Prophet, and: had ſpared them. ' o The Sea-men, and all others, if;any-others were in the Ship. p With a deep Reve-
-| rence of his Power, Wiſdom and Juſtice againſt Forzb, and of his -| Mercy towards them. What was the final Effet of this, and-whether | they were by: it throughly turned to God, I.enquire not now ; it may -|'belt become our Charity, that as Fonah's caſting over-board was 2 | Type of Chriſt's Death, ſo the. Effett it had upon the, Mariners might. [be a Type' of the Converſion of; the Heathen from Idols to God. ] q4 Their Fear before was exceeding great, but that was a Fear of the .| Danger, and for themſelves a natural Fear z but now they do fear the
Lord and' his Majeſty ang. Mercy, it is a Religious Fear. ' 7 What they had in the Ship to offer to God, or how they could offer there, ap-
| pears not to us, but the Scripture affirms they, did Sacrifice, not to '| Idols, but to the true God : Some ſuppoſe the Words are to be inter- | preted, that they would ſacrifice at Feruſulem, where they now know
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