John Trapp on Jonah 2:7

Verſe 7. When my ſoul fainted within me, I remembred the Lord] And could ſay as the Church in Eſay when at loweſt,Eſa. 63.16. Doubtleſſe thou art our Father, our Redeemer, thy Name is from everlaſting. As there is in the creatures an inſtinct of nature to do their kind: ſo there is of grace in the Saints, to run to God. Yea in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, have we waited for thee: the deſire of our ſoule is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee: with my ſoule have I deſired thee in the night: yea with my ſpirit within me will I ſeek thee early &c. Eſa. 26.8, 9. Oh Lord, ſaith Habacuc, art not thou from everlaſting my God and mine holy One. It was a bold queſtion, but God approves and aſſents to it in a gracious anſwer, ere they went further;Hab. 1.12. We ſhall not die (ſay they obruptly) O Lord thou haſt ordained them (the Caldeans) for judgement: but us onely for chaſtiſement. Here was the triumph of their faith, and this was that which held up Jonas his hope though with wonderfull difficulty, held head above water. He remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the moſt High Pſal. 77.10. he called to mind his ſongs in the night ſeaſon ver. 6. his former experience, a juſt ground of his preſent confidence. He remembred the Lord, his Power and Goodneſſe, thoſe two pillars, the Jachin and the Boaz that ſupport Faith; and this fetcht him againe when ready to faint. I had even fainted, unleſſe I had beleeved to ſee the goodneſſe of the Lord in the land of the living, Pſal. 27.13.

and my prayer came in unto thee] q. d. Though I was ſo faint I could ſcarce utter a prayer, yet thou harknedſt and heardeſt, as Mal. 3.16. thou madeſt hard ſhift to hear, (as I may ſay) thine ears were in my prayers, as S. Peter hath it, 1 Pet. 3.12. thou felſt my breathing, when no voice could bee heard, Lam. 3.56. thou heldeſt not thy peace at my tears, Pſal. 39.12. quando fletu agerem non afflatu, yea thou heardeſt the voice of mine affliction, Gen. 16.11.

Into thine holy Temple.] Whether we take it of the Temple at Jeruſalem (a type of Chriſt) Jonah's prayer was accepted for Chriſts-ſake: and proved to no leſſe purpoſe, though made in the Whales belly, then if he had been pouring it out in Gods holy Temple. Or, if we underſtand it of Heaven, the habitation of Gods holineſſe, and of his glory, his oriſons were come up thither, for a memorial before the Almighty, Act. 10.4. and like pillars of incenſe pierced into his preſence, Can. 3.6. neither would they away without their errand, but lay at Gods feet, til he ſhould cōmand deliverance out of Zion