...Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord, and entered^ andfaid, Tet forty Days, and Nineveh /hall be overthrown. So the People of Nineveh believed God* and proclaimed a Faft, and put on Sackcloth, from the great eft of them, evtn to the leaft of them. And Godfaw their...

...like so much else, are mere shams. In the first place, in the instance cited there was FAITH — " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...the greatest of them even unto the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,...

...arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. And Jonah began to enter into the city, and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the С people people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest...

...supposed) that any of the mariners should have informed the JVinevites of the miracle wrought for him, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them ; they fasted to add fervency to their firayer, and joined with this, sackcloth,...

...Nineveh ; God commanded judgment to be denounced againft the city : " Yet forty days, and Nineveh fliall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a faft, and put on fackcloth, from the greateft of them even to the leaft of them," Jonah iii. 5. " And...

...nature of that credit which we are to give to God's declarations. Directed by the Lord, Jonah cried, « Yet forty days, and Nineveh, shall be overthrown." " So the people of Nineveh believed God ;" that is, they gave full credit to God's message, delivered to them by Jonah. Another example occurs...

...prophet Jonah foretold the destruction of that stately city would come to pass in forty days, " they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least ; for word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his...

...and Ni" neveh shall be overthrown," that the inhabitants thereof " believed God, and pro<f claimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from " the greatest of them even to the least of " them : for word came unto the king of Ni" neveh : and he arose from his throne, and,...

...vi. 5, 6. " And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord, and entered and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown....put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them. And God saw their works, that they returned from their evil way, and God repented...

...Day of Fasting and ffmntiiiitiiM. The text is very felicitously selected from the prophet Jonah, " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least." Mr. Gardiner, after expounding and illustrating his text in a very elegant manner, concludes...