Jonah 1

If any reply, that God has changed his counsel sometime, as when he pardoned the Ninevites, Abimelech, or Pharaoh: the answer is easy. For when the Lord sent Jonah to the Ninevites, he manifests not that which he had decreed in his secret counsel, but meant to touch their hearts…

And thus with this buckler, he repulses all the difficulties which easily arise, as often as the promises of God do surmount our reach. I grant he sometimes threatens with condition, as he threatened Abimelec (Genesis 12:17), and Pharaoh (Genesis 20:3), and the Ninevites (Jonah…

Therefore in this denunciation there must be a condition supplied; for otherwise Hezekiah could never have moved the Lord, nor annulled his irrevocable decree neither by his prayers nor tears. But the Lord threatened him as he did Abimelech king of Gerar for taking Sarah, Abram'…

And (Numbers 11:31) there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea. (Jonah 1:4) The Lord sent out a great wind into the sea. The Heathens (who divided the world among sundry gods) gave the winds to Aeolus, whom they supposed to have them all shut up and l…

What! sleep in a storm! when winds are blowing, and waves roaring, sea entering, and ship sinking! What do you mean, O sleeper! could the heathen ship-master say, in such a case, to Jonah (Jonah 1:5-6), when he lay fast asleep in the sides of the ship: Arise, call upon your God;…

God is praised twenty five times for his mercies, but the conclusion of all is, Praise the God of Heaven, for his mercies endure for ever; his mercies, as he is the God of heaven, they are the glorious mercies indeed. When the Scripture would set forth the excellency of a thing,…

The first cry of the Newborn Christian (says one) gives Hell an alarm, and awakens the rage, both of Devils and Men against him. Hence Paul and Barnabas acquainted those new Converts, Acts 14:22. That through much tribulation, they must enter into the Kingdom of God: And we find…

IN Storms and Distresses at Sea, the Richest Commodities are cast over-board; they stand not upon it, when Life and all is in jeopardy and hazard. Jonah 1. 5. The Mariners cast forth the Wares that were in the Ship into the Sea, to lighten it.

The rude mariners were sensible of a divine power which was to be called upon, and consulted with in case of extremity; and that the way of commerce was by worship. (Jonah 1:5) when the storm arose, they called every man upon his God. 2. Though heathens were sensible of the bein…

There was such a disease introduced into the world by the [reconstructed: fall], that most of the remedies which men choose, do but show the strength and [reconstructed: malignity] of the disease; they choose out false ways of coming to God, and returning to him (Micah 4:5): All…

Trust as it implies recourse to God in our necessaries, is necessarily required in the fundamental article of the covenant, in the choice of God for your God. Nature teaches men in their distress to run to their gods; (Jonah 1:5) The mariners cried every man to his god, it immed…

Go to the gods whom you have chosen, let them deliver you in the day of tribulation. When you trust God, the honor of his Godhead lies at stake; by trust you own him for a God (Jonah 1:5). Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man upon his God.

When he slew them then they sought him, and returned and inquired early after God. The heathen mariners call every man upon his God when in a storm; when they fear drowning, then they fall to praying (Jonah 1:5). Mariners are for the most part none of the devoutest, not much add…

Oh we level not, we hit not, we apply not the word so home, so particularly as the occasions, conditions, corruptions of men require; and therefore it prevails not with that power, finds not that success which otherwise it might. Common reproofs are like the confused [illegible]…

Oh, therefore call for the sight of sin, and sorrow for sin, for conviction, and humiliation, as you love your lives and souls call for these. You know what they said to [reconstructed: Jonah] (Jonah 1:6), when the sea was fierce, and the winds high, and the storm great, every m…

If the Romans did severely punish a young man who was seen sporting in a window with a Crown of Roses on his headin time of public Calamity: of how much sorer punishment shall they be thought worthy, who strengthen themselves in wickedness, and laugh in the very face of Gods jud…

Jeremiah 2:2: 'Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord.' Jonah 1:2: 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it.' Isaiah 61:1-2: 'The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me, to preach good tidings to the meek —…