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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40656	A collection of sermons ... together with Notes upon Jonah / by Thomas Fuller.; Sermons. Selections	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2418; ESTC R21301	51,193	163

this phrase then is meant He deserted the Office of a Prophet he forsook and relinquished the Ministeriall Function whereabout God had imployed him Thus to be In Gods presence is used in Holy Writ Deut. 10. 8. The Lord seperated the Tribe of Levi to stand before the Lord. 1 Kings 17. 1. As the Lord liveth saith Elias before whom I stand What kinde of men then ought we Ministers to be How decently ought we to demean and behave our selves who are Chaplains in Ordinary to the King of Heaven Every Moneth is our waiting Month We are bound to constant and continuall attendance It was the title of the Angel Gabriel Luke 1. 19. I am Gabriel that stands in the presence of God i. e. Ever ready to be sent of him in any imployment Now as Angels are Gods Ministers in Heaven so Ministers are Gods Angels on Earth and stand in his presence from which Jonah did flye And he went down to Japho for he found a ship going to Ta●shish Japho was the Port of Ierusalem distant from thence some thirty miles in the Tribe of Dan afterwards called Ioppa Here Ionah findes a ship for his purpose how all things seem to favour and flatter his flight He lights on a ship the ship sets saile and at the first the tyde serves the winde seconds them Let us suspect our selves and search our actions whether they be not wrong when we run without rub and sayle without remora For the first entrance into sinne is easie and pleasant whereas in good actions when we begin them it is a thousand to one but that the Devil or our corruptions start some enemies or obstacles to hinder us So he payed the fare thereof Jonah herein seems to be a man of a good conscience Hearken ye detainers of the wages of the hirelings Know that Oppression the master whom you serve will deale otherwise with you than you deale with your servants For the wages of sin is death and that shall duly be paid you And you Servants who have received your hire afore hand deale not worse with your Masters for dealing the better with you but conscionably doe your worke that the Out-Landish Proverb may not be verified in you He that payes his Servants wages afore hand cuts off his right arme that is Occasions him to be lazie and slothfull That he might goe with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Pharaoh's dreams were doubled because it was a thing determined by God Gen. 40. 42. So these words were doubled in the Text to show that it was no suddain motion or project whereon Ionah stumbled unawares but it was a purpose consulted concluded debated determined He would that he would flye from the presence of the Lord. Now it is the opinion of some that Ionah altered his calling and turned Merchant but this is more than can be proved out of the words Traffique in it self is lawfull making those wooden bridges over the Sea which joyn the Islands to the Continent adopting those Commodities to Countreys whereof they are barren themselves by nature But it is not fitting that the Tribe of Levi should change Lots with the Tribe of Ashur Or that those who have Curam Animarum should take upon them Curam Animalium Apply themselves to Husbandry Grasing or any Mechanicall Trade Verse 4. But the Lord sent out a great winde into the Sea and there was a mighty tempest in the Sea so that the ship was like to be broken But the Lord. Though the man did thus leave his Master yet the Master will not thus leave his man but sends a Pursevant after him Learn from hence God is carefull for his Servants though they be carelesse for themselves Gen. 19 16. Thus also was God mercifull to Thomas who for his temper may be called the Ionah of the Apostles making a new apparition for the confirming of his faith Iohn 20. 26. Let us pray to God that he would love us to the end that though we forsake him he would not forsake us That though we forget the duty of Children to him he would be pleased to remember the love of a Father to us And here we may admire Gods goodnesse to take such pains about the recalling of a froward sinner Lord what was Ionah that thou shouldst regard him or the sonne of Amittai that thou shouldst visit him Sent out a great winde into the Sea God is the commander of the windes and hath them at his beck as the Centurion had his Servants He saith to the East winde Goe and he goeth Exod. 10. 13. And the West winde Come and he cometh Exod. 10. 19. And to the South winde Doe this and he doth it Psal 78. 16. If it be objected that the Devil is styled Ephes 2. 2. The Prince of the power of the ayre and therefore to give the Devil his due sithence winde is nothing else but ayre moved by vapours It may seem to be a subject of the Devils Dominions I Answer The Devil is no absolute Prince of the ayre no Monarch but onely he hath a deputed Command therein under the God of Heaven And Satan dares not for the fear of a praemunire exceed his commission and endeavour any thing in the ayre without Gods expresse command or permission Much lesse can Witches and Conjurers Lieutenants under the Devil perform any thing therein And as for the Heathens fancie which make AEolus God of the Winde it is lighter than the winde it self So that the ship was like to be broken Here a difficult Objection may be started How could it stand with Gods justice to put so many innocent Mariners in hazard and jeopardy of their lives for the sinne of Ionah alone But these Sheep what have they done Will God destroy the righteous with the wicked Shall not the Judge of all the earth doe righteously I answer first at large In God's proceedings what we cannot conceive to be good we must not condemn to be bad But suspect our selves suspend our censures admire his workes which are never against right though often above reason To come nearer God need not pick a quarrell with man he hath just matter enough at any time to have a controversie with him and to commence actions against him These Mariners though not guilty with Ionah in this particular act yet had deserved this punishment of God for their former manifold transgressions from which no man is free Yet God hastened this punishment upon them for Jonah's presence with them Wash not in the same bath with Cerinthus decline the society of notorious sinners Rev. 18. 4. Gold though the noblest mettall loseth of his lustre by being continually worn in the same purse with silver And the best men by associating themselves with the wicked are often corrupted with their sinnes yea and partake of their plagues Yet when men are implunged in misery through the faults of others and suffer for company for the sins of others as men in