¶ And God oure father & scolemaster fedeth vs & teached vs accordinge vn to the capacite of oure stomakes/ & maketh vs to grow & waxe perfecte/ & fineth vs & trieth vs as gold/ in [the] fire of temptaciōs & tribulations. As Moses wittneseth Deutero. viij. sayēge: Remēber all [the] waye by which [the] lord thy God caried [the] this .xl. yeres in [the] wildernesse/ to vmble the & to tēpte or proue the/ [that] it might be knowen what were in thine hert. He brougt the in to aduersite & made [the] an hongred/ & then feed [the] with mā which nether thou ner yet thi fathers euer knew of/ to teach [the] that a mā liueth not by bred only/ but by all that proceadeth out of the mouth of God. For [the] promises of god are life vn to all [that] cleaue vn to thē/ moch moare thē is bred & bodyly sustinaunce: as [the] iourney of [the] childern of Israel out of egypte in to [the] londe promised them/ ministreth the notable ensamples & [that] aboundātly/ as doeth all [the] rest of the bible also. How be it/ it is impossible for flesh to beleue & to trust in [the] trueth of gods promises/ vntyll he haue lerned it in moch tribulacion/ after that God hath deliuered hī out therof agayne. ¶ God therfore to teach Ionas & to shew him his awne hert & to make him perfecte & to enstructe vs also bi his ensample/ sent him out of [the] lande of Israel where he was a prophete/ to goo amonge [the] heathē people & to [the] greatest & mightiest citie of [the] world thē/ called Niniue: to preache [that] within .xl. dayes they shuld all perish for their sinnes & that [the] citie shuld be ouerthrowē. Which message [the] frewil of Ionas had as moch power to doo/ as the weakest herted womā in the world hath power/ if she were cōmaunded/ to leppe in to a tobbe of lyuinge snakes & edders: as happely if God had cōmaunded Sara to haue sacrificed hir sonne Isaac/ as he did Abrahā/ she wold haue disputed with hī yer she had done it/ or though she were strōge ynough/ yet many an holy seint coud not haue found in their hertes/ but wold haue disobeyed ād haue runne awaye frō [the] presens of [the] cōmaūdemēt of god [with] Ionas if thei had bene so strōgly tēpted. ¶ For Ionas thought of this maner: loo/ I am here a prophete vn to Gods people the Israelites. Which though they haue gods word testified vn to them dayly/ yet dispice it & worshepe God vnder [the] likenesse of calues & after all maner facions saue after his awne worde/ & therfore are of all naciōs [the] worst & most worthy of punishment. And yet god for loue of few [that] are amonge them & for his names sake spareth them & defendeth them. How thē shuld god take so cruell vengeaunce on so greate a multitude of them to whome his name was neuer preached to ād therfore are not [the] tenth parte so euel as these? If I shal therfore goo preach so shall I lye & shame my selfe & God therto and make them the moare to dispice god and sett the lesse by him ād to be the moare cruell vn to his people.