CONTENTS
We have here a sad view of the mind of Jonah; the Lord's grace to
Nineveh excites the Prophet's displeasure. he is reproved by the Lord
under the figure of a gourd.
Jonah 4:1
We have not a similar instance in scripture, of a minister of the Lord
being displeased at the success of his lab... [ Continue Reading ]
Is this Jonah, who offered such a lovely prayer but a little before?
Can it be, the same man? Alas! Reader! what is Jonah, what is any man,
if for a moment left without the influences of grace?... [ Continue Reading ]
Oh! precious, precious Lord Jesus! do we not see thee here, in this
gentle tender expostulation? Reader, pray turn to Luke 9:51.... [ Continue Reading ]
I cannot sufficiently admire, nor adore, the condescending benignity
of the Lord, in the tender method the Lord took to recover the Prophet
from his petulance. Reader! look at the Lord in those gracious acts,
and then say what a blessed proof is here given of his own character;
the Lord, the Lord Go... [ Continue Reading ]
Was there ever an instance of grace so recompensed with open
contumacy? Was there ever an example of impudent rebellion more
pointed than this?... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! behold the conclusion! and say shall we not in the view of it
cry out with the Prophet, Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of thine
heritage? Micah 7:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
HERE, Reader, let us pause as we finish the history of Jonah, and
gather together into one view the wonderful subject, as it relates to
the Lord's servant, and as it relates to the Lord himself, in his
abundant grace manifested to such a wayward and rebellious frame of
mind. We shall rea... [ Continue Reading ]