¶ And vppon that imaginaciō he fled frō the face or presens of God: that is/ out of [the] contre where God was worsheped in & frō prosecutynge of Gods cōmaundemēt/ and thought/ I wyll gett me a nother waye amonge [the] hethen people & be no moare a prophete/ but lyue at rest & out of all cōbraunce. Neuer [the] lesse the god of all mercie which careth for his electe childern & turneth all vn to good to them & smiteth thē to heale them agayne & killeth thē to make thē aliue agayne/ & playeth with thē (as a father doth some tyme with his yoūge ignoraunt childern) & tempteth them & proueth them to make them se theyr awne hertes/ prouided for Ionas/ how all thinge shuld be. ¶ When Ionas was entered in to the sheppe/ he layed him downe to slepe ād to take his rest: that is/ his cōscience was tossed betwene the cōmaudemēt of God which sent him to Niniue/ & his fleshly wisdome that dissuaded & counseled hym [the] cōtrary & at [the] last preualed agēst [the] cōmaundemēt & caried hym a nother waye/ as a sheppe caught betwene .ii. streames/ & as poetes faine the mother of Meliager to be betwene diuers affectiōs/ while to aduēge hir brothers deeth/ she sought to sle hir awne sonne. Where vppon for very payne & tediousnesse/ he laye downe to slepe/ for to put [the] cōmaundement which so gnew & freate his cōscience/ out of minde/ as [the] nature of all weked is/ whē they haue sinned a good/ to seke al meanes with riot/ reuell & pastyme/ to driue [the] remenbraunce of synne out of their thoughtes or as Adā did/ to couer their nakednesse with aporns of pope holy workes. But God awoke hym out of his dreame/ and sett his synnes before his face. ¶ For when [the] Lott had caught Ionas/ thē be sure [that] his synnes came to remēbraunce agayne & that his conscience raged no lesse thē [the] waues of the se. And thē he thought that he only was a sinner & [the] hethen that ware in [the] shepp none in respecte of him/ ad thought also/ as veryly as he was fled frō god/ that as verily god had cast hī awaye: for [the] sight of [the] rod maketh [the] natural child not ōly to se & to knowlege his faulte/ but also to forgett all his fathers olde mercie & kindnesse. And then he cōfessed his synne openly & had yet leuer perish alone thē [that] [the] other shuld haue perished with him for his sake: and so of very desperacion to haue liued any lenger/ bad cast him in to [the] see betymes/ excepte they wold be lost also.