¶ To speake of lottes/ how ferforth they are lawfull/ is a light questiō. First to vse thē for the breakinge of strife/ as when partenars/ their goodes as equally diuided as they cā/ take euery mā his parte by lott/ to auoyde all suspiciō of disceytfulnesse: & as [the] appostles in [the] first of [the] Actes/ whē they sought a nother to succede Iudas the traytoure/ & .ii. persones were presentes/ thē to breake strife & to satisfie al parties/ did cast lotttes/ wheter shuld be admitted/ desirynge god to teper thē & to take whō he knew most mete/ seynge they wist not wheter to preferre/ or haply coude not all agre on ether/ is lawfull ad in all like cases. But to abuse them vn to [the] temptinge of God & to cōpell him therwith to vtter thinges wherof we stōd in doute/ when we haue no commaundemēt of him so to do/ as these hethē here dyd/ though God turned it vn to his glorie/ can not be but euell. ¶ The hethen scepmē asstonied at [the] sight of [the] miracle/ feared God/ prayed to him/ offered sacrifice & vowed vowes. And I doute not/ but that some of thē or haply all came therby vn to the true knowlege & true worshepinge of God & ware wōne to God in theyr soules. And [thus] God which is infinite mercifull in all his wayes/ wrought their soules health out of [the] infirmite of Ionas/ euen of his good will & purpose & loue wherewith he loued them before the world was made/ & not of chaunce/ as it appereth vn to the eyes of the ignoraunt. ¶ And that Ionas was .iii. dayes & .iii. nightes in the bely of his fish: we cā not therby proue vn to te Iewes & īfideles or vn to any man/ [that] Christ must therfore dye ād be buried & rise agayne. But we vse [the] ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the weake. For he that beleaueth the one can not doute in [the] other: in as moch as the hād of God was no lesse mightie in preseruīge Ionas aliue agenst all naturall possibilite & in deliuerynge hī safe out of his fish/ thē in reysynge vpp Christe agayne out of his sepulchre. And we maye describe [the] power & vertue of [the] resurrecciō therby/ as Christ hī selfe boroweth [the] similitude therto Mat. xij. sayēge vn to [the] Iewes that came aboute him & desyred a signe or a wōder frō heuen to certifye thē that he was christ: this euell & wedlockebreakīge naciō (which breake [the] wedlocke of faith wherwith they be maried vn to God/ ād beleue in their false workes) seke a signe/ but there shal no signe be geuen thē saue [the] signe of the Prophete Ionas. For as Ionas was .iij. dayes ād iij. nightes in the bely of the whale/ euē so shall the sonne of man be .iij. dayes & .iij. nyghtes in the herte of the erth. Which was a watch word/ as we saye/ & a sharpe threateninge vn to [the] Iewes & as moch to saye as thus/ ye harde herted Iewes seke a signe: loo/ thys shalbe youre sygne/ as Ionas was reysed out of the sepulchre of his fishe & then sent vn to the Niniuites to preach [that] they shuld perish/ euen so