0 ! As they of Nineueh shewed them selues prompt and ready to receiue the worde of God ant Johahs preaching, and so turned to the Lord by repentance: so after a certein time rather giuing thm selues to worldelie meanes to increase their dominion, then seking to continue in the feare of God, and trade wherein they had begone, they cast of the care of religion, and so returned to their vomite, and prouoked Gods juste judgement against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore their citie Nineueh was destroyed, and Meroch-baladan King of Babel (or as some thinke Nebucahd-nezzar) enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. But because God hathe a continual care of his Curch, he stirreth vp his Prophet to comfort the godlie, shewing that the destruction of their enemies shulde be for their consolation. And as it semeth, he prophecied about the time of Hezekiah, and not in the time of Mannasseh his sonne, as the Jewes write.