¶ When Ionas had bene in te fishes bely a space & the rage of his conscience was somewhat quieted ād swaged and he come to him selfe agayne and had receaued a lytle hope/ the qualmes & panges of desperaciō which went ouer hys hert/ halfe ouercome/ he prayed/ as he maketh menciō in the texte sayēge: Ionas prayed vn to the lord his god out of the bely of the fishe. But the wordes of that prayer are not here sett. The prayer [that] here stondeth in the texte/ is the prayer of prayse & thākesgeuēge which he prayed and wrote when he was escaped and past all ieopardie. ¶ In the end of which prayer he sayth/ I will sacrifice with the voyce of thankesgeuenge and paye that I haue vowed/ that sauinge cometh of the lorde. For verely to cōfesse out of the herte/ that all benefites come of God/ euen out of the goodnesse of his mercie and not deseruinge of oure dedes/ is the only sacrifice that pleaseth God. And to beleue that god only is the sauer/ is the thynge that all the Iewes vowed in theyr circumcision/ as we in oure baptim. Which vowe Ionas now tawght with experiēce/ promiseth to paye. For those outwarde sacrifices of bestes/ vn to which Ionas had haply asscribed to moch before/ were but feble & childish thinges & not ordeyned/ that the workes of thē selues shuld be a seruice vn to god/ but vn to the people/ to put thē in remembraunce of this inwarde sacrifice of thankes & of faith to trust and beleue in God the only sauer. Which significacion when was awaye/ they were abhominable and deuellysh ydolatrye and imageseruice: as oure ceremonies and sacramentes are become now to all that trust & beleue in the werke of them and ar not taught the significacions/ to edifye theyr soules with knowlege and the doctrine of God. ¶ When Ionas was cast vppō lond agayne/ then his will was fre ād had power to goo whother God sent him & to doo what God bade/ his awne imaginacions layed a parte. For he had bene at a new scole/ ye ād in a fornace where he was purged of moch refuse & droshe of fleshly wisdome/ which resisted [the] wisdome of god & led Ionases wil cōtrary vn to [the] will of god. For as ferre as we be blynd in Adam/ we can not but seke & will oure awne profitt/ pleasure & glorie. And as ferre as we be taughte in the sprite/ we can not but seke & wyll the pleasure and glorie of God only. ¶ And as for the .iij. dayes iourney of Niniue/ whether it were in length or to goo rounde aboute it or thorow all the stretes/ I cōmitte vn to the discreciō of other men. But I thinke that it was then the greatest citie of the world. ¶ And that Ionas wēt a dayes iourney in the citie/ I suppose he did it not in one daye: but wēt fayre & easyly preachīge here a sermon & there a nother & rebuked the synne of the people for which they must perishe.