Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 1:6

6 So the ship-master came to him , and said unto him, What meanest thou, O * sleeper ! arise , call upon thy God , if so be that God will think upon us , that we perish not .

Who had the conduct of the Vessel, and from whose mouth such a reproof was seasonable,

missing him, when all the rest were toil'd with labour, and had been crying mightily to their false Gods, but Ionah appeared not.

A very decent yet sharp reproof to him, What mettal art thou made of? Or, What God dost thou fear? Or, Art thou deaf to all the menaces of Heaven?

Awake, get up,

Pray to that God thou worshippest, as we have already each done, for possibly thy God may be mightier than our Gods, and may lay the Tempest that lyeth so heavily upon us.

They had lost the[illegible: 1 letter]r labour seeking to other Gods, yet think it adviseable, that Ionah should try his God too, if so be, &c. Vid. Ioel 2.14. and so Amos 5.15.

With pitty, care, and favour, and do for us in this our strange distress,

that Ship, Goods, and Men too, may not be lost.