Wesley Corpus

Go Jonah, rest thyself content and be thankful: that goodness, which spared Nineveh, hath spared thee in this thy inexcusable frowardness. I will be to repenting Nineveh what I am to thee, a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and I will turn from the evil which thou and they deserve. Probably Jonah himself was the penman of this book. In 2 Kings 14:25, we find, that he was of Gath - hepher in Galilee, a city that elongs to the tribe of Zebulon. We find also, that he was a essenger of mercy to Israel in the reign of Jeroboam the second. e have here a remarkable instance of God's mercy, toward repenting inners. And in Jonah we have a most remarkable type, of our ord's burial and resurrection.