An Abridgeme[n]t of all the Canonical books of the olde Testament written in Sternholds meter by VV. Samuel |
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The Prophecy of Ionas. |
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The Prophecy of Ionas.
The first Chapiter.
As God him bad he would not do,but fled another way:
they cast him in the sea.
In dooing so they pardon axt,
a Whale did him deuoure:
Three dayes and nightes the fishes womb
was vnto him a boure.
The ii. chapiter.
Being thus of the fishe possest,his prayer he did make:
Protesting suche as followe lies,
Gods mercies they forsake.
But Ionas saith that he wil pay
the vowes he took in hand:
As God did wil, so did the Whale
this Prophet cast on land.
The iii. chapiter.
Commaunded was he once again,to Niniuie to shew:
In fortie dayes they mending not,
God would them ouerthrowe.
A fasting then proclaymed was,
the King and they repented:
For mending of their former life,
God stayd that was inuented.
The iiii. Chapiter.
that Niniuie was sparde:
Without the Cittie in a boothe,
ther angerly he farde.
A gourd sprang vp and shaded him,
that it decayd he chod:
For Niniuee he cared lesse,
so is he tolde of God.
FINIS.
Heer Ionas book is finished,
in chapters foure set out:
Now Michah shall appeer to you,
the same we go about.
in chapters foure set out:
Now Michah shall appeer to you,
the same we go about.
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