Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Secondly, we must consider the certainty, and authority of this book. The Church as yet, never rejected or refused this book: but have accounted the same among those, which we call Canonical books of holy scripture, and which have Ecclesiastical, and heavenly testimonies.
Furthermore, we have our saviour Christ (as concerning this matter) a sufficient testimony and witnesses, as may appear by the xii Chapter of Mathew, where he alledgeth the example of Jonas for his resurrection, affirming, that the coming of Jonas out of the Whale’s belly, was a type of the same. Furthermore, Christ preferreth the Ninevites, before the Israelites, because the Ninevites repented at the one only sermon of Jonas, and the Israelites would not be converted unto the Lord by many sermons. ...
For more, see Johannes Brenz on the authority of the book of Jonah.
Furthermore, we have our saviour Christ (as concerning this matter) a sufficient testimony and witnesses, as may appear by the xii Chapter of Mathew, where he alledgeth the example of Jonas for his resurrection, affirming, that the coming of Jonas out of the Whale’s belly, was a type of the same. Furthermore, Christ preferreth the Ninevites, before the Israelites, because the Ninevites repented at the one only sermon of Jonas, and the Israelites would not be converted unto the Lord by many sermons. ...
For more, see Johannes Brenz on the authority of the book of Jonah.
