|'Religion, and here theſe Perſons bind themſelves. by Vows to recogniſe
God's Goodneſs ji their Deliverance. It is not improbable that here
| is a Trajeftion, as many tines Þ Fcripture, that placed. laſt whick -'in ConſtruRion is. to be firſt. _
hey vowed Vows and Sarrifices, 2. e. vowed they would .do it, would be Profelytes, and ever worſhip him
.| whom Job preagh'd to them. Creator of Heaven ant Earth,
i7. q, Now-s. the LORD had prepared te a great
20. + Hed.
s And Heb: t Created at firſt ſay ſome, but what need that when ;gwezs,
a mighty overgrown Eith of a double ' Age may do this by Got's Will
and Appointment attending the Ship, and following it in the Storm,
expetting a Prey, and ready to receive the Priſoner ?. A Whale,
as we read, Mat. 12. 49. others ſay 'twas a Shark, a Fiſh common in
thoſe Seas. x Not to chew upon him, but to take him down whole.
3 In (ate Cuſtody. _ 2 That he might rightly rypify Chril.*s Burial in
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the Graves
CHAT.
|the'fea Land theſea - ceaſed from her raging m7. + Heb,
.and | offered a ſacrifice r unto the LORD, and'+ made + Heb. /+-
crificed. + Heb. vowed.
onah :_ and * Jonah was * Nat-:5. - ] 4. Luk.u,
— ENNIS Yeti RA. ie.
- a ,- - age"; Og OT "AY FIRE us x
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CHAP. Il,
FonaPs prayer and vow, 1-— 9g, The fiſh at God's command ſpues him our 07 the ſhore, 10. -
l Hen a Jonah prayed bunto the LOED c his God d | | out of rhe fiſhes belly e.
2 1d Hebr. at that time when he lay by the Heels.a cloſe Priſoner 31 a Priſon, whence none before or ſince ever came out alive. 6 Sent his Petition in all humble and ſubmiffive manner unto God 3 Fon ah wonderfully preſerved alive,and in full Exercite of his Judgment and Memory, now betakes himfelf to Prayer, and.in this' exerciſeth-his Graces; 'hjs Soul follows hard after God, when he was ſhut up in this Dungeon. - c That was angry, and now was puniſhing of Foz4h, the. Lord who had committed: him. to this Priſon ;' the. Almighty God, whocan «lo for Fonab all that he. can need or deſire. 4d Though Fomdh' in his froward Eit flies from his God, yet now by the Rod taught bet- ter, he flies to God ; nay,.as his God, and remembers his particular Intreſt.in God. !- If Fonah prays by Faith grounded on God's Almigh- tineſs,now he prays with Affurance and Hope of Faith,looking to God as his God if the Power of the Lord and his Mercy keep Fonah alive in the Eiſh's Belly, the ſame Power and Mercy can deliver him out of this Danger, and-the Prophet believes he is kept there for an Enlarge- ment, as miraculous as his Confinement was. e Where he was'a Priſoner under many Miracles, and all concur to awaken him to Prayer and Faith 3 he calls it the Belly of Hell, or, the Gr.rve, ver. 2, imploy- OIEY ed his time well there. $5 |
120't- 2 And ſaid f, * I cried g || by reaſon of mine af
5 ang fiction þ unto the LORD #, and he heard me; out of
of mine ' pro the belly of || hell cried 17, and thou heardeſt my !{ Or, the yoice m. ki 87200 'The former Verſe was a general Account that he pray'd ; this ord in the Front of this Verſe isa Tranſition to a more full Account of his Prayer. what for Subſtance, and ſomewhat of the Words alſo. g Not with a lond. Voice of the Tongue,as *twa> not ordinarily feiſable in ſo cloſe- a Priſon, ſo nor was it, necelſary-.he ſhould, where none were to hear but his God, who heareth the ftrong=ſt Defires, and ac- counts them the ftrongeſt Cries ; {o Fonah cried, with his whole Heart. þ Diſtreſs or . Straits with which he was, encompaſſed, and. cloſe be- fieged 3] nor was there ever cloſer Siege laid to any one, his Body and
Mind both ſhut up, the one by the monſtrous Dungeon of the Fiſh's |
Belly,and the other by the Terrors of the Almighty. -7.It was in ma- ny ReſpeRs fit Fonzb ſhould petition God, for he was committed by his ſpecial Warrant, and none either had Power or Authority to deliyer him but God. &k Though Fonab ſay not how God, did, hear, in what: Particular, yet he knew both how and in what the Support of his Per- ſon, thc. Exerciſe of his Reaſon, the Workings. of his Heart toward, God, and a Hope or Aſſarance. that-he ſhould be delivered, were paxt.
of the \ercy God gave, and. he prayed for. 1 Grave, ſo Sbeol, ſo it. | was as dark to Fora, and had been as deſtruttive too; if Mercy had |.
not prevented. This is doubled to intimate both the. Priſoner's Ear- neſtneſs, and-the Greatneſs of the Mercy given to one:that was as ſhut, up in the Grave, m Of his.Soul, whileſt he way in that diſmal Dun-. geon, aslet. g. : . VELET of: 3: For.» thowo hadſt taſt p me iato .the deepq, in
' the + midſt of the ſeas r, and the floods s compalled, \me about. all thy billows and thy waves paſſed over met. 2 This introduceth the Account of his Diſtreſs mentioned ver. 2+
o The Almighty offended by my Fruwardne(s and Obftinacy. p Tho the Mariners Hands heared me over-board,'twas thy Hand that did it, and preſs'd me ſore. q The Bottom of the Sea ; by what follows it is, probable Foxab was caſt into the Sea far trom Shore. r Or Heart of the Seas, but more literally and ftriatly in the midſt of the Seas, than
+ Heb. heart.
that Feb. 27.4. 5 Either the mighty Rivers which run into that Sea, |!
or the Floods, the mighty Currents, which the rolling Sea and Winds with Tide-made. tr The Surges of the Sea, which explains what be- fore he called the Floods. Here is an elegant Deſcription of the Vio- lence and Horror of the Seas into which Fonab was caſt, which toſſed his Body, and fHgnified the Terrors wherewith his Soul was diftreſs*d rom God*s immediate Hand, as T7ſal. 42. 7. Thy Waves; Fonah, ſeeth God's Hand and Sovereignty in all this, intimating that he pray- ed for what he knew his God could do for him.
4 Then « I faid x, 1 am caſt ovr of thy ſight y ; yet I will look = again toward thy holy temple.
z Though this Ward with us ordinarily denoteth Time, yet here it denoteth Order and Connettion, the Hebrew is and.. 'x With my (elf, I thought in the midſt of my Fears and Sufferings. y Cut off from all Hope of Life among Men, rejetted, forlaken, and as *twere forgotten of my God, and left by this Death to pals to a worſer Death. Thus he was. wrack'd with Senſe of preſent Danger from God*s Diſpleaſure, and is almoſt carried away with a Diſpair of ever ſeeing the Face of God again with Comfort, much as P/al. 31. 22. and Zam. 3. 18. 2 His Faith begins to recover it ſel?, he will not as
_ deſpairing ones any more look towards loſt Hopes, but with reviving