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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	faith_n	life_n	soul_n	6,759	5	4.9416	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80399	Mris. Cooke's Meditations, being an humble thanksgiving to her Heavenly Father, for granting her a new life, having conclnded [sic] her selfe dead, and her grave made in the bottome of the sea, in that great storme. Jan. the 5th. 1649. / Composed by her selfe at her unexpected safe arrivall at Corcke.	Cooke, Frances, fl. 1649.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6008; Thomason E600_9; ESTC R206391	13,171	16

of the rocks the Lord hid it from me and I could not believe that I should be preserved neither could I tell whether God would put a period to my life the Lord revealed it not to me concerning living and dying but he fitted me for both in believing that I was his and I blesse his Name the Lord kept me all the time of the storme in a submissive humble believing and quiet frame of spirit and he spake to my heart by way of questioning with me that suppose the Lord should spare my life now and at another time should call for it would I be contented to suffer for him by way of being a witnesse to his truth and the faith of Jesus Christ if he should call me to it unto which I found my spirit willingly to submit and I resolved with all my heart and soule to repay this dying life to my ever living God whensoever he calls for it and howsoever he will have me to come to him at sea or land And I will not feare the King of terrors as Job calls death let him bring me to my Fathers house which way he will whether through the fire or through the water I hope I shall be willing to suffer any death that might bring glory to him that hath suffered death to bring me to life believing that Christ would not bring me into any condition but that he would be with me therein and then I know that I can do any thing through him which strengtheneth me 4. Phil. 13. v. For I blesse the Lord I never once repined all the time but I patiently lay expecting every houre when I should be dissolved and be with Christ in his glorious and triumphant Kingdome and after the Lord had searched my heart and had wrought in me a willingnesse to submit to him and had shewed me what a solemne action it was to dye and had made me sensible that there was a cloud of griefe but faith would pierce thorough that and see life in the midst of death and that in finishing my course and in resigning my spirit to God that gave it I should find my fraile nature sinking but the Divine Nature supporting and that there is a little agony to be gon through about the time dissolution when the soule will be heavie unto death notwithstanding a submission to its Fathers will Matth. 26.38 39. v. After the Lord had given me a taste of death he gave me life conditionaly that I should be willing to dye and suffer death for him at another time if he called me to it whereupon I solemnly promised covenanted with God and mad my vowes unto the most high in the hearing of my dearest friend on earth others That if the Lord would deliver me out of this terrible storme and bring me safe to land againe and renew my dayes I would give up my selfe and my new life wholly to the Lord that I would walke more closely with him in holy Communion then ever I had done formerly that I would no more live to my selfe nor to the world but wholy to the Lord that I would study to live more Gospel-like declaring and holding forth to the world that the Lord had overporw+'rd my soul by his free grace overcome my heart with loving kindness many extraordinary deliverances which cal for extraordinary praises if it pleased God to mak me partaker of such a singular mercy I would not only record it in my heart all the dayes of my life but in all places render thanks unto the Lord while I have any being and tell all the world that I have my life from Christ and therefore must spend it for him And the Lord did suddenly accomplish the thing which I had so earnestly prayed for when the sea had done threatning it was mercifull ere I was aware of it as if God would surprise me with deliverance and I could scarce believe that I was come to a harbour when I was told so the newes was so unexpected and sudden to me that I was like those men that had prayed long for the returne of the captivity of Babylon and it was the conclusion of many prayers and when they saw that the Lord did accomplish it on a sudden and the thing was done in a trice they were as men in a dream Psal 126.1 verse they could scarce believe it was so so the Lord wrought deliverance for Peter suddenly when he was fast asleepe and did not so much as think of it and so the Lord delivered Joseph out of prison on a sudden which shewed he had heard his prayer therefore blessed be his Name for ever And this the Lord doth to overcome the heart and to draw out the affections unto himselfe and that he might be admired of his Saints that they finding him giving in Jweet and unexpected deliverances may returne everlasting praises unto him and glory in the God of their salvation Psal 40.10 11. verses that they may learne alwayes to trust him for we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selvs but in God which raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that hee will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1.9.10 The Lord hath his path in the whirlewinde and in the storme Nahum 2.3 verses And the Lord answered Job out of the whirlewind Iob 38.2 verse and said verse 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth hast thou entred into the springs of the Sea or hast thou walked in the search of the deeps hath the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou seen the doores of the shadow of death verse 7.2 King 3.11 And Eliah went up in a whirle winde into heaven so that wee may see when the Lord descends to the creature Exod. 1918. or calls for it to ascend up to him it is in some marvelous and extraordinary manner as by stormes and whirlewindes fiery Chariots and thick clouds and hee gives us the reason why he doth so in Exod 19 9. that the people may believe for ever when he speakes to them God hath severall wayes to speak and after severall manner he doth reveale himselfe to the sons of men under the Gospell as well as under the Law although some will not believe although one should come from the dead to speak to them when the morning starres sing together and all the the sons of God shout for joy or who shut up the Sea with doores when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the wombe and said hitherto shall thy proud waves come and no further and here shall they be stayed Where the Lord Jesus is broken forth in spirit where he is risen forth from the dead there is a glorious appearance of the presence of God which fills the soule with joy when Mary came to Elizabeth she said what am I that the

preserved by the immediate wonderfull hand of God praise him Ye for whose sakes he rebuked the Sea and made the proud waves calme and hath set your feet upon dry ground declare that God is a present help in time of trouble Psal 46.1 verse and tell his goodnesse to the sons of men The Lord would not have his people to forget his mercies but he puts them in mind of deliverances How often doth he tell us in Scripture that he is our God and that he brought us out of the Land of Egypt and that with his holy Arme he hath wrought salvation for his chosen Ingratitude is a very great sin because it is a breach of the Commandements of God you shall glorify me saith he when I deliver you and I will be praised by them that dwell upon the earth The Lord Commands and requires his people to be thankfull for mercies and he takes it very unkindly when they will not so much as returne thanks 50. Ps 8. The Lord cares not for burnt-offering and sacrifices nor cattell upon a thousand hills nor for all the fowles of the mountaines nor the beasts of the fields but saith he gather my Saints together unto me 5. v. those that have made a Covenant with me And what doth God require of his Saints when they so assemble together to remember such mercies but prayse and thanksgiving and specially to pay their vowes unto the most high verse 14 Yet many of Gods people are very backward in duty of thanksgiving and that we see by the Lords oft putting them in mind to pay their vowes and to performe their Covenant which they make with him in the day of their affliction The Lord knowes very well when his people most frequent him as he saith Hosea 5.15 verse In their affliction they will seeke me early but in the day of their prosperity they forget their maker Hosea 8.14 So that the Lord complaines that he knowes not what to do with these people He findes such ebbings and flowings in their unconstant affections that he compares them to the clouds Hosea 6.4 Oh Efraim what shall I do unto thee oh Judah what shall I do unto thee for your righteousness is as the morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away I am confident that there is not one that was in this storme of tryall as I may so call it o● a storm wherein we might sound our hearts have the bottom of the inward vitalls discovered to our selves especially such as feared the Lord and have had former acquaintance with him by way of communion through his Son but did solemnly enter into a Covenant with God and made vowes unto the most high in the great storme that if he should come and ransome them now when they were almost sinking from the power of the grave which to all apprehensions was prepared in the seas and redeeme them from the jawes of death which then presented it selfe most dreadfull and save their lives when they saw no way to escape death That they would give up themselves wholly unto the Lord all the dayes of their lives and study how to live answerable to so great a mercy and that they woul live as refined ones whom God hath pluckt out of the fire and out of the water and if they knew any way more pure or holy then other wherein they might glorify God advance his praise they would do it and that they would not value the world nor men of the world but that they would live like those whose hearts God hath melted downe and overcome with loving kindness and mercyes preservations and deliverances a heart that God hath melted downe with a sensibleness of his spirituall and temporall deliverances will be saying Lord what wilt thou have me to do Loe I come to do thy will oh God I am ready not only to be bound but also to dye for the name of Jesus Therefore let me speake a word to them to whom God hath given new I ves and it may be hath added some yeares to these renewed lives give me leave to put you in minde to remember your vowes all the dayes of your lives and live by faith and not by sense Job would not reject the counsell of his servant and therefore I shall present some Scriptures to your considerations Jonah 1.16 we may observe there that when men are in stormes and distresses then they make vowes unto God as you may see in the 16. verse then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered sacrifice unto the Lord and made vowes David said in Psal 61.8 verse I will prayse the Name of the Lord forever that I may daily performe my vowes Psal 116.17 verse I will offer unto the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving I will pay my vowes unto the Lord in the presence of all his people When thou vowest unto the Lord deferre not to pay it Eccles 5.4 v. Job 22.27 verse Thou shalt make thy prayer unto the Lord and he shall heare thee and thou shalt pay thy vowes Numb 30.2 verse If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or sweare an oath to bind his soule with a bond he shall not breake his word but he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth Deut. 23.21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee God hath granted me the thing I prayed for although he did not evidence to my heart then that it should be granted but he calmed and contented my heart by giving me a quiet rest of spirit to submit to my Fathers good wil pleasure that living or dying it should goe well with me and that I was not my owne but bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 and therefore must glorifie God both in my body and soule which are his The Lord comes to the quick and puts me to the tryall that I might know what temper I was made of and what was in my owne heart whether I had improved my talent and what stock of grace I had gained to support at such a time of need and if I had a spirit that durst encounter with death let him appeare never so terrible and in this trying condition the Lord kept me under water as I may say and expostulated the case with me and put questions to my soule and pleaded with me about life and death I mean onely this temporall death for I blesse God I know that my Redeemer lives all the time of the storme the Lord did sweetly smile upon my soule and I found a strong sensiblenesse of his love and favourable presence in supporting my faith to believe and in giving me assurance of my eternall salvation thorough Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour But concerning the being delivered from the power of the waves the rage of the sea and the danger