THE Prayer of IONAH. Ionah 2. (Book 13)
The Argument and Vse.
AS Ionah fled from the presence of the LORD, he was followed by a tempest, whose furie would not be allayed, vntil the offender was cast into the Sea, where God had mer∣cie on him, and sent a Fish to preserue him; Which in humane reason, seemed a more terrible dan∣ger, then that he was deliuered from. But the safetie which at his first entrance, hee found in so vn∣safe a place, made him sensible of Gods fauour, and begat in him a firme beliefe that he should be totally deliuered. And thereupon, (being yet in the Fishes belly) made this Prayer, to praise God for deliuering him in so great an extremity. (And he did it as spea∣king