Journey p. ) Sins, Danger and Duty in this Exigent. & It was an A&t of the King I And, Heb. as God commands and dire&s ; ſo Fonah with ready, | and Council, and that which paſſed them with good liking, they re- reſolved and obedient Mind ſets about the Work. m Though it was | liſhed the thing, as the Hebrew Phraſe importeth. 7 Men have finned along Journey, yet three Weeks or three Months Travel by Land is | and provok*d God to this high Diſpleaſure, it. does moſt principally more eligible than three Days in the Belly of Hell. Every way | concern them to repent, faft and mourn for their Sins, that God may complying with the Command of God, ſpeeding thither, reſolved to | pardon and ſpare them. m Theſe compriſed in the Threat, and like preach whatſoever Sermon God ſhould put into his Head, encouraged | to be involved in the common Danger, are put under a Faft; this the with Aſſurance that God who did ſend would be with him whitherſo- | general, which is afterwards expreſs'd more particularly Zer4{ and ever he was ſent. 0 The greateft City of the known World at that | Flock; let none of theſe; whether at home in the Stall, or abroad in diy, it was then in its flouriſhing Stare greater than Babylon, whoſe | the Fold and Herd. # This referred by ſome to the Striftneſs with Compaſs was three hundred ſixty five, or three hundred eighty five | which Men were bound to keep this Faft, but this may be a general | Furlongs ; but Nineveb was in Compaſs four-hundred and eighty, her | Prohibition explained by what follows, Let all, Man and Beaft, forbear Walls an hun:red Foot in Height, broad enough for three Coaches to | to eat or drink, that the Faſt might be moft ſolemn, that the Cry of meet, and ſafely paſs by each other z it had fifteen hundred Towers | Man, ſeconded. with the Cry of hungry Cattel, might enter the Ears 0 its Walls, and theſe Towers two hundred Foot high, and one Mil- | of God, who preſerveth Man and Beaft, _ and _ _— thouſand _ wr ge for eight] $ But let man o and beaſt p be covered with ſackcloth, ears to build it, if our Author be not miftaken. p There is ſome - he , _ Difference in accounting how this City was three Days Journey ; if and cry wy 1 —_ God r: , let —_— s —_ 390g *Ia.$9.4 we account the Length of it at one hundred and fiſty Furlongs, this | 7Y ONE # ITOM N1S EvVIl Way #, an rom * tne VIOtenCe Xx i amount to eighteen Miles and three Quarters : this ſeems too lit- chat 45 in their hands Y. : tle to be three Days Journey, unleſs it be ſuppoſed the Prophet ac- 0 Every Man from greateſt, the King on the Tlirone, to the leaft, ount his leiſurely Progreſs, and takes in the many Stops that would | the Beggar on the Dunghil, put off his uſual and otter Habit, and af- neceſſarily and unavoidably retard him in his walking and preaching | flidt themſelves in coarleſt Garments. p Their Horſes in which they Iuch ftrange News 3- if we conſider this, *tis not unlike fix Miles | gloried much, their Camels alſo, both which they adorned with rich KOuld be as far as he could goina Day, preaching to afl, and diſ- | and coftly Clothing in their Stables, and with as rich Furniture tor ourſing with many. Others will account it three Days Journey togo | Saddles, Bridles and Trappings, when they were uſed abroad * now rough the Streets and Lanes of this City ; but on the Suppoſition | all in Teftimony of an hearty Repentance muſt clothe with Sackcloth, tas eighteen Miles in Length, and eleven Miles in Breadth, *twill be | the Clothing of Beafts muſt witneſs for Men. q Beaſts in Diftreſs and nore than three Days Journey, or a Week's Journey ; for ſuppoſing | Starving cry to God as the young Ravens and hungry Lions, anc fo 2 Mile's Breadth but eight Streets from end to end through eigh- | here Beaſts of the Herd and Flock cry. But tis to be referred to en Miles Length, *twill amount to four hundred fixty four Miles. O- | Men lamenting their Sins, deprecating Judginents, imploring Mcrcy hers account by the Compaſs of the Walls fixty Miles, and allow | with all Earneftneſs and Vehemency of Detire, called here a cry:ng wenty Miles to each Day's Journey, too far for any one to walk, | mightily ro God, as cb. 1.5+ 7 Who only could prevent the Judgmenc Preach, diſpute er reaſon, and account for himſelf : The firſt Ac- | threatned from being executed, v.9,10. s The Inhabitants of Nimeveh, vunt eems moſt probable: whetherTraders, or who live at their Eaſe andPleaſure there,let them
4 And q Jonah began to enter into the City a Days reform and amend their Doings. t The Edit tor cealing trom V1o- lence is as full and particular as the Edid tor Faſting, all are com-
Our 1 p a = = 4 ur he cried and faid £ Yet forty days and manded to be juſt and righteous. u Not ceaſe from fingle Acts only, en 1nall be overthrown s. but change the Courſe and habicual manner of Lite, called here their q The former Verſe gives us Intelligence of Fonah's Arrival at N1- Way: every one was vicious, atid each 0:e aimoit had lome particyv- veb; now, ſo ſoon as come, he preacheth. r To walk through, and | 14; Method of Sin, which was his way of finaing ; this muſt they tarn \ Preach the dreadful Threats of God againſt Nineveh, and he pro- | frgm. x Opprefſion and Rapine, as a cluet Sin is here particularly "a openly and plainly what God commanded he teared not to | qentiened; compare this with Nah, 3. 1. » Which attcd by them 18 , —_— concerned all, he did It with Earneftneſs as deeply aftett- | gjy in their Hands both in the Guiit ot it, the Effetts of it, and as ort raya okra oi boos. 6, Po. - - Ws publickly known as what is ſeen in a Man's Hands, Fid. Plal. 7. 3. pl ILY 3 2; __ . X ry Man God was bound to give, 'or than they ea eutve, or than God 9 Whocan rell z if God will turn and as. my * and pave to Sodom and Gomorrah, the Sins of which Cities were, no doubt, ! CUrn away from his fterce anger b, that We Peril notc * und in Nimeveb now Fonah preached, and grew ripe by that time Na-| z,Here is the ground of the Ninevites fafting and praying, there 1s "ane to foretel their Ruine, vid. Nahum tor. The Threat is ex- | a Foſhbility that they may eſcape, there is airly argued a 1Tobabilt-
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