Now [that] thou mayst reade Ionas frutefully & not as a poetis fable/ but as an obligacō betwene God and thy soule/ as an ernist peny geuen [the] of God/ [that] he wil helpe [the] in time of nede/ if thou turne to him ād as the word of god [the] only fode ād life of thy soule/ this marke & note. First count Ionas the frend of god ād a man chosen of god to testifie his name vn to [the] worlde: but yet a younge scolar/ weake & rude/ after [the] faciō of [the] appostles/ while Christ was yet with them bodyly. Which though Christ taught thē euer to be meke & to vmble thē selues/ yet oft stroue amonge them selues who shuld be greatest. The sonnes of Zebede wold sitt/ the one on the right hōde of Christ ād the other on [the] lifte. They wold praye/ that fire might descēde from heuen/ and consume the Samaritanes. ¶ Whē Christ axed who saye men that I am/ Peter answered/ thou arte the sonne of the lyuinge God/ as though Peter had bene as perfecte as an angell. But immediatly after/ when Christ preached vn to thē of his deeth & passiō/ Peter was angre & rebuked Christe & thought ernestly [that] he had raued & not wist what he sayde: as at a nother time/ when Christ was so feruētly busied in healinge [the] people/ [that] he had not leyser to eate/ they went out to holde him/ supposinge that he had bene besyde him selfe. Ande one [that] cast out deuels in Christes name/ they forbade/ because he wayted not on them/ so glorious were they yet. ¶ And though christ taughte all waye to forgeue/ yet peter after longe goenge to scole/ axed wether men shuld forgeue .vij. tymes/ thynkinge [that] .viij. tymes had bene to moch. And at [the] last soper Peter wold have died with christe/ but yet within fewe howres after/ he denied hym/ both cowardly & shamefully. And after [the] same maner/ though he had so lōge herd that nomā might auenge him selfe/ but rather turne [the] other cheke to/ then to smyte agayne/ yet when Christ was in takīge/ peter axed whether it were lawfull to smyte with [the] swerde/ ād taried none answere/ but layed on rashly. So that though when we come first vn to [the] knowlege of the trueth/ and the peace is made betwene God & vs/ & we loue his lawes & beleue & trust in hym/ as in oure father & haue good hertes vn to him & be born anew in [the] sprite: yet we are but childern ād younge scolars weake & foble & must have leysar to grow in [the] spirite/ in knowlege/ loue & in [the] dedes therof/ as younge childern must have tyme to grow in their bodies.