John Trapp on Jonah 1:6

Verſe 6. So the ſhip-maſ[illegible: 2 letters] came unto him] God might have come himſelf with his drawn ſword, (as Baanah and Rechab did upon ſleeping Iſhboſheth) and taken off his head: or have ſent an evill Angel to arouſe him in a fright: or have thrown him into the burning lake, as Agrippa did his dormouſe into the boyling caldron. But ſuch is not Gods manner of dealing with his people, though he be deeply diſpleaſed.Jer. 10.24. Correct them he will, but with judgement not in his anger, leſt they be burnt to nothing. Inſtruct them alſo he will (Corrections of inſtruction are the way of life Pro. 6.23.) by one meanes or other; as he did here Jonas by a rude mariner: and as long before he had done Abraham and Sarah by Abimelech an Heathen Prince, to ſhame them

what meaneſt thou O ſleeper] Heb.Gen. 20. what's come to thee? what a ſenſeleſſe ſtupidity hath ſeiſed thee. Are we all in danger, and doſt thou ſleep? as the Philoſopher (in danger likewiſe of ſhipwrack) ſaid to one that made light of it, Do we all ſtand upon our lives, [non-Latin text not transcribed] and doſt thou play the foole? The ſpirituall ſleeper, in like ſort, may he be but warme in his own feathers, regards not the danger of the houſe. He is, ſaith One, a mere mute and cipher, a nullity in the world, a ſuperfluity in the earth, Jeremies rotten girdle, good for nothing, or like the branches of a vine, Ezech. 15.3.

ariſe, call upon thy God] For our gods will do nothing for us. The gods of the heathen are ſilver and gold, the work of mens hands: they have mouthes but ſpeak not, &c. Pſal. 115.4. But if Gods Iſrael truſt in the Lord, he will be their help, and their ſhield, v. 9. Foraſmuch as there is none like unto him, Ier. 10.6. neither is their Rock as our Rock, our enemies themſelves being judges, Deut. 32.31.

if ſo be that God will think upon us,] The Chaldee hath it, will be merciful unto us: The Hebrew word ſignifieth, will clear up, and behold us with a ſerene countenance; granting us a calme, and taking care that we periſh not So ſhall we acknowledge him to be Haelohim, that God by an excellency. Q. Elizabeth (that Regina Sereniſſima) for her merciful returning home certain Italians that were taken priſoners in the 88 Invaſion, was termed Saint Elizabeth by ſome at Venice: who alſo affirmed to the Engliſh Embaſſadour there, that though they were Papiſts, yet they would never pray to any other Saint, but that Saint Elizabeth.