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 ]