adulterous generation] A bastardly brood, Hosea 1:2. No true children of Abraham, Joh. 8. 39 See on Chap. 16. 4. there shall no sign be given to it, &c.] No signe shall be given them now at their request, or assigned them at present, but one that hereafter shall be wrought and manifested to them, to their shame and confusion. the sign of the prophet Jonas] Whose lying so long in the whales belly, was a type of my buriall: Or, such a miracle as was wrought upon Jonas.