The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

The Book of JONAH, all.

IN Hosea, Joel, and Amos is shewed the rejection and ruine of Is∣ruel and Judah, and in Obadiah, the desolation of Esau the next Kinsman, and when the seed of Jacob and Esau is thus decreed to ruine and casting off, then it was seasonable to send Jonah out to fetch in the Gentiles: He lived in the same time with these Prophets, named in the days of Jeroboam the second, and Prophesied of his Victo∣ries, and in his time or not long after he goeth to Niniveh: He at first declineth his Embassage, for love to his own people, knowing that the coming in of the Gentiles would be the casting off of the Jews, and he was unwilling to be the forwarder and instrument of it. At Joppa he diverts from his errand [compare Acts 10. and the like unwillingness in Simon Bar Jona] taketh Ship for Tarshish, a City now in the territo∣ries of Ninevehs dominion, but comes a shore in a Whales belly: a type of Christs Burial and Resurrection before the Gentiules calling. Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah, denouncing destruction but forty days off: but about forty years after or less it is destroyed indeed, un∣der the effeminate King Sardanapalus.