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Divine Command

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.

Chapter 9, The Sermon · verse 37

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