Jonah 2:4-9

The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Reader to notice in Jonah's resolution of looking again is, that he would look towards the Lord's holy temple. Everyone knows that reads the Bible, that this temple was the type of Christ. God in Christ, is, and was, the sum and substance of the whole temple, and of the whole furniture. Hence Jonah, like all the holy men of old, was looking for salvation, to a God in Christ. And, Reader! I pray you to keep in remembrance, that let the afflictions and exercises of God's children be what they may, there can be no relief to any, or to all, but faith's confidence and hope in God's Christ.