Ionas.
IOnas hath not barely in word, but truely in deede foreshewed the mysterie of our sauiours resur∣rection. For Christ sayth in the gospell: Euen as Ionas was three dayes and three nightes in the bellie of the whale, so shall the sonne of man be three dayes and three nights in the bowelles of the earth. Euen as the whale cast vp Ionas vncorrupt, so hathe the sepulchre restored the Lorde to the better life. This Ionas was of Cariathmaus, nigh Azotus, a Citie lying on the sea coaste to∣wardes the Gentiles. After he came out of the whales bellie, and taken his way to the Citie of Niniue, he taried not in that lande, but tooke his mother, and so••orned in Assur a foraine soyle. He thought with him selfe, by this meanes I shall take away the infamie which I haue purchased vn∣to my selfe by prophecying falsely against the Citie of Niniue. Elias hauing propheried in those* 1.1 dayes against the house of Achaab, and called for famine to light vpon the earth, fledd away, and being come to a widowe which had a childe, he taried there (for he coulde not abide among the vn∣circumcized) & blessed her. When Ionas died, God raised him to lif by Elias, for he would haue him then know that he coulde not flie from the hand and power of God. After the famine was ended, Ionas left that countrey, and gotte him to the land of Iuda, and when his mother died by the way, he buried her by mount Libanus. He died also him self in Saar, and was buried in the caue of Cen∣zeum, who had bene made iudge ouer one tribe in his countrey, what time the lande wanted a Prince. This Prophet gaue straunge tokens vnto Ierusalem and the whole land. to witte, a stone crying very lamentably that the end was at hande. that when Ierusalem were troden and frequen∣ted of all nations, then the Citie should be destroyed.