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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87178	Trodden dovvn strength, by the God of strength, or, Mrs Drake revived. Shewing her strange and rare case, great and many uncouth afflictions, for tenne yeares together : together, with the strange and wonderfull manner how the Lord revealed himselfe unto her, a few dayes before her death. / Related by her somtime unworthy friend, Hart On-Hi.	Hart, John, D.D.	1647 (1647)	Wing H960; Thomason E1156_1; ESTC R204874	52,707	199

comming smoothed her over telling her that this was but some unwarranted feare had surprized her and that she would finde herselfe herein as in many other surmised things deceived But shee still maintained the maine that her time was at hand and she very weak though shee carryed it faire after which her Husband in a week or ten dayes arrived But the posture of her carriage for all this was the same She being in a surpassing extraordinary strange humor of talking of the best things perpetually night and day without intermission not having any jot of sleep almost night or day whereby her spirits were both much spent and tyred out The Relator who still had a watchfull eye upon all the passages of her occurrences Mr Dod is gone for to come unto her once more knowing of her late discontent and cause thereof and hearing that she was removed to Sharolois made no more adoe but with all haste went and brought Mr Dod thither fearing that this might prove his last journey unto her as indeed it proved when he came unto her two Sundayes before her death he by that time found her much weakned in body keeping her bed but with such vehement desires to discourse of and heare of the best things reading expounding and singing of Psalmes that all were struck with admiration and would not stay with her so long as shee would have had us nor read unto her because we would gladly have had her to rest which could not be done for shee continued still speaking both night and day to some one or other who watched with her yet all of the best things for her time being short she imagined as shee said shee could not too advantagiously emprove the same The first of the two Sundayes before her death Shee instructs and prepares her children to beare her death shee would not suffer her children to goe to Church that day but made them stay with her to instruct them and speak her minde unto them alledging that shee must take time whilst shee had time for she knew not whether or not shee should live untill the next Sunday when shee vented unto them in the best manner shee could at large all shee had to say unto them expounding divers Scriptures unto them formerly expounded unto her which shee had a large strong memory to retaine this day finishing all shee had to say unto them saving at last to give them her blessing Now the Munday after this was all spent in continuall conference with Mr Dod so much as he would conferre with her for feare of over-toyling her spirits shee being in the other extremity more forward to entertaine and speak of the best things A strange change then formerly shee had beene backwards which shewed some strange change at hand yet all this while could shee or would shee never sleep night or day but in a perpetuall motion of speaking of variety of all sorts of things but by her good-will still of Divinity and of the life to come undervaluing all this world and eating sparingly On the Tuesday next in the morning shee sent for Mr Dod who prayed and talkt a while with her with variety of excellent discourse of death heaven and eternall glory when suddenly as prayer was done about eight of the clock in the morning we were strangely enterrupted by a strange and uncouth out-cry which proceeded from her I am assured the like was never heard or read of before which uncouth language in shew a rapture of another world a few words whereof the Relator can shew or expresse onely he hopes the Reader will pardon him if he misse in recounting things of another world which Paul himselfe was at a non-plus in after his rapture 2 Cor. 12.4.7 and Peter also after his descent from the Mount Mark 9.6 not knowing what he said So difficult it is to expresse things unutterable A strange Rapture of feeling Oh oh oh what 's this what 's this what 's this I am undone undone undone I cannot endure it endure it O ô ô let me be gone let me be gone ô I must be gone I cannot tarry I cannot tarry ô what shall I doe what shall I doe O Father O Mother O Husband kisse me kisse me and let me bee gone Come all farewell all let me take you by the hand and bee gone Lo lo the Angels are come they wait they stay for mee O deare Mother why hold you me I must be gone O he is come he is come he is come Now you have it you have it you have it why hold you me let me be gone my work is done O call call call where is my Crowne fetch mee my Crowne Bring bring bring mee my white Robes quickly quickly quickly why run you not The Angels stay now you have it you have it you have it Meaning that now wee had the issue and fruit of all our Prayers O it overcomes overcomes overcomes me I am undone undone undone what shall I doe what shall I doe what shall I doe O you will not let me be gone With innumerable such swift expressions could not bee remembred shee in that short time of halfe a quarter of an houre speaking more then one can treatably in an houre with an incredible switnesse no ordinary action of this life when withall shee heaved and heaved up still all the time with fixed eyes towards the house top as though shee had seene some Vision and would have flown away from them all making a hole through the chamber Roofe During which time as wee cannot blame them the posture of all the Spectators was save her Husband who went weeping and wringing his hands up and down the Chamber silence wonder and admiration they in all their life time having never seene or heard of the like Which put Mr Dod her Husband and all of them to a non-plus as being beyond all experience But if the Reader will have patience this good Creature shall her selfe expound this rare Riddle yea and comment upon it This fit of sudden extreame ravishing unsupportable joy beyond the strength of mortality to retaine or belong capable of being over and shee layd againe who formerly had striven to have got away from them all they all being in an amazed astonished silence shee her selfe began thus Why are you all silent Her speech after her Rapture where is Mr Dod Who being neere unto her sat down on the beds side by her unto whom shee thus directed her speech Sir what did you think of mee lately in this strange posture I have been in did not you imagine me to have been mad all the time Mr Dod Replyed No but that it was very strange unto them all having never heard or seene the like So said she surely it was it was very strange But will you know how it surprized mee As this morning ere you came to prayer I being alone prayed to God that hee would not absent himselfe for ever

righteous must needs end in joy Sixthly Then also we see here that crosses and afflictions are only lesser and greater as it pleases the great God to set them on lesse or more as it pleases him to abstract the light of his countenance from us turn loose Satan upon us enfatuate our judgements giving us some taste and sense of his encensed wrath Oh! who then can dwell with such everlasting burnings and if smaler sins discovered thus set on and torment yea some thoughts only as in this good Gentlewoman Oh! what may the greater doe if he should aggravate them discovering the wrath due unto them without a suitable sight of mercy Therefore to break off our sins betimes repent of them and to sow for our selves in righteousnesse that wee may have a sure reward and bee able at last to stand with boldnesse before the Son of Man Seventhly So seeing too eager desire of feeling cost this Gentlewoman so deare though shee had her desire therefore not to dote too much upon it being restlesse untill they have it as many good soules doe who like Rachel restlesse for children cryd out still comfort comfort feeling feeling or else wee die But let them be contented of what measure thereof God of his infinite wisedome thinks best for them For He who hath created them for eternity of glory surely knowes the best meanes and way to bring them thither Seeing feeling at the best is uncertaine short and quickly vanishing and too much doted upon and eagerly persued brings us onely to a habit of discontentment without it whilst wee cannot bee contented unlesse every day the Almighty feast us forgetting that wee walk by faith and not by sight and that the life we now live in the flesh is by the Faith of the Son of God vision and sense for to come Eighthly Then behold from this rare experience here this lesson Not to prescribe or appoint God a way which way to bring us unto glory Hee knew the fittest and shortest way to have brought the children of Israel unto the Land of Canaan without passing through a red sea But out of his infinite wisedome he made choyce of the wildernesse way unto them That as Moses shewes hee might prove them try them and doe them good at their latter end And yet how crooked soever his wayes seem unto our corrupted senses they bee alwayes straight how full soever of turnings and windings as the Psalmists That hee brought them out by a right way unto Canaan Therefore to rest confident herein that this which God appoints is alwayes best for us whether hee lead us in a wildernesse in a a straight crooked smooth tedious long afflicted way by the gates of Hell unto Heaven or with a more gentle comfortable gale of joy let us be contented so he bring us thither as hee did this good woman here if by any meanes wee attaine unto a joyfull Resurrection of the Dead it is a very great purchase as Paul acknowledges Ninthly For which is the next Sure it is Seeing a glance of Heaven a little taste of heavenly joy is so prevalent to make us to forget all even an age of afflictions as this good Gentlewoman found who thereupon forgot all her by-past troubles swallowed up in surmounting joyes I say if a touch a taste a short glance onely bee so forcible and ravishing How surmountingly excellent glorious and revishing shall that estate bee to drink at the fountaine head of the beatificall vision out of the rivers of his pleasures for ever Therefore to rest confident and patient in all afflictions seeing our comforts are at length beyond all our crosses seeing God ruines none by afflictions but purges purifies cleanses whitens enlightens and fits us thereby to bee vessels capacious of so much the more glory out of the ruines of the flesh erecting framing and building up that glorious structure of the new creature to mount up at length out of the wildernesse of this world fraught with Myrrhe and Frankincense and all the spices of the Merchant unto eternity of glory for ever Tenthly Next hence observe That God never comes too late unto his servants but will alwayes bee seene in the Mount making our extremities his opportunities as he did unto Abraham in Isaac's case and as this good Gentlewoman found who being much afflicted comfortlesse for many yeares together even at the point of death yet at length hee was entreated came and revived her in a swifter course then the running swift Charets of Aminadab nay came flying as it were upon the wings of the winde passing ans skipping by all the hills of sinnes and mountaines of her corruptions when in her appearing last suit unto him and extreame weaknesse she had beg's now at length once before her death to open the brazen gates of her hard heart that the King of glory might enter in which was abundantly done Therefore though he stay never so long let all the hard-hearted gaine by this experience of hers with the Churches resolution in Isaiah I will wait upon him who hides his face from the house of Iacob and I will look for him and reason good For he never failes of comming being waited for and engaged by so many promises wherein it is impossible for him to deny himselfe Eleventhly Further also hence wee may learn how to deale with those in affliction in whatsoever Case View them well first be not too brief with them Heare them vent themselves Try the symptomes and pulses of their disease as Iobs three friends who sate it is written seven dayes and nights silent because thay saw his griefe was great for unseasonable comforts are and prove but like raine falling upon hard stones which runs off as fast as it comes making no impressions whilst their buzzing heads and transported spirits are gadding plodding elsewhere with strong diversions as it fell out with this good Gentlewomen who passed not for all was said unto her for a long time neither was hope of cure untill the Devils counsell was bewrayed 1. Therefore it behoves to be circumspect and patient awhile to finde out the cause and circumstances of distempers or else no good can bee done for though counsell in the heart of a man be like deep waters yet Salomon shewes that a man of understanding will fetch it out 2. And then his counsell being bewrayed the Patient must be mildly meekly and gently used not hald and puld hurried and chid O no this is a wrong course but used with abundant patience and love waited upon with many good words and suffered to bemoane themselves as much as they list repeating one thing still over and over againe as often as they please Many good things fit for them must be uttered in their hearing not too soone pressd upon them as spoken unto others they must have here a little and there a little not pressd beyond their strength wonne by degrees with a loving sweet affable carriage as all these yeares