Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 4:3

3 Therefore now , O LORD take I beseech thee, my life from me : for it is better for me to die than to live ?

And, Heb.

Now presently, let no time slip.

Who art, as onely Author, so the great Arbiter of Life. The mighty and eternal God; His Sovereignty was enough to command Ionah's Reverence, but Ionah forgets himself and his God.

In a peevish humour Ionah is weary of his life and prays for death, yet in this request some mixture there is of Grace with Passion, somewhat of Mercy from God to Ionah in that he doth not give him up to his own Passion. And Ionah, as weary as he is, yet will live till God will take away his life.

'Tis more desireable to me to die and be buried, for then my Prophesying that never came to pass will be soon forgotten, however I shall never more blush at the rebukes the world will cast upon me.

Disgraced and upbraided by Atheists, and hardned sinners who will reflect the lye upon me or on my God.

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