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death_n	power_n	sin_n	sting_n	7,486	5	11.7460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23653	The captive taken from the strong or a true relation of the gratious release of Mistrisse Deborah Huish (by the arm of the Almighty) from under the power of the Tempter, by whose firy conflicts she had been sorely vexed for about fourteen years / as it was faithfully written from her own mouth by William Allen ...	Allen, William, Adjutant-general of the army in Ireland.	1658 (1658)	Wing A1051; ESTC R32702	51,203	149

consumed which was because he had made an everlasting Covenant on my behalf in Christ Jesus my Lord in all things well ordered and sure and that he was ever mindful of his Covenant Oh! this was sweet and this even this was the reason I was not cast off in my rebellions because he hath loved me with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindnesse hath he drawn me and that for his own name sake he deferr'd his anger that he cut me not off nor did he retain his anger for ever because mercy pleased him he delighted to be gratious The coming in of these did even satisfie my soul as with Marrow in the thoughts of his infinite Eternal unchangeable love Which I saw indeed was the reason of my not being consumed because he is God and changeth not and in his protection and infinite love and mercy my soul did now rejoyce seeing its safety under the shadow of his Wings believing I should for ever be kept by him and he would uphold me with the right hand of his righteousnesse and would never fail nor forsake me but would rest in his love The sixth day I was kept up much in the sense of love peace and joy afforded me the night before from God my gratious Father my soul still trusting in his word with which he had refreshed and supported me And still I was inabled to believe to my great comfort That his word should endure for ever from which word last mentioned I have been inabled to plead with God in my conflicts after this manner Lord thou hast promised that they that come to thee thou wilt in no wise cast out and if so then canst thou not turn away from doing thy people good but wilt according to thy good word sprinkle them with clean water and from all their idols and Iniquities thou wilt cleanse them yea thou wilt take away the stony heart and give them hearts of Flesh with thy Laws writen in them and thy fear put so into their inward parts as they shall not depart from thee this Lord is thy word in which thou hast caused my soul to trust Thus have I been inabled to plead his new Covenant-mercy to my souls support and upholding in straits blessed be his name This night I had a good nights rest and was much refresh'd on the seventh day in the morning with thoughts much enlarged upon the great good laid up by the Lord for them that fear him and had many promises presented afresh to my soul for future encouragement so that I was inabled through his grace to admire his infinite love in Jesus Christ and to have my soul fully satisfied in that onely and to testifie my satisfaction therein by desiring and endeavouring for ever to be to the praise of his rich grace made known to me by being dedicated wholly to his service Whose workmanship I am being created in Christ Jesus to good works to the end we should walk in them Giving glory and honour to Christ Who alone is worthy to receive it from us having redeemed us out of all kindreds and tongues c. and having wash'd us in his own Blood and made us Kings and Priests unto God the Father and we shall Reign for evermore I also considered it was for this end that he gave himself to redeem us that we might be a peculiar people to himself zealous of good works And to this end I desired My soul might have Fellowship with him in his death sufferings and resurrection being made conformable to him in his death and raised up and brought forth by the power of his Spirit in the Fellowship of his resurrection Fifth Assault from Satan But this seventh day at night I was again assaulted with blasphemous thoughts and tempted to slighty and low thoughts af all his grace and love made known to me And was seized with much fear as I am usually in all these conflicts lest I should be overcome and dishonour God by hearkning consenting to the suggestions of his and my Enemy But the Lord this night also was not wanting to me but did uphold me in waiting upon him inabling me to seek to him rest upon him his word in which he had caused my soul to trust And in this way he came in to me manifesting himself exceeding gratious to my relief and helped me to vanquish those temptations giving me strength against them and inabling me to speak to his praise what he had done for my soul to the end it might be recorded yet when I came this night to speak of these things that so they might be recorded I was much afraid I should not be able being much straitened and shut up but the Lord opened my heart and my mouth spake through his assistance to his praise The seventh day at night I went to bed late and when I awaked in the morning the Lord made my Meditations of him to be sweet to me causing me much still to rejoyce in the love of God my Saviour My first Meditation being of his infinite love and wisdom in finding out a way for recovering and reconciling poor lost fallen man to himself and such a way wherein mercy and truth might meet together righteousn●sse and peace might k●sse each other And this Scripture was much on my heart g 1 Joh. 1.9 If we confesse our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins And that was sweet to see it was not onely mercy but faithfulnesse and justice to forgive sins unto poor penitent sinners for the sake of Christ The Mediator between God and man in whom God saw himself and Justice fully satisfied and the poor believer might see himself fully acquitted as if he had not sinned And all this I saw as the Fruit of Christs death and resurrection he having in our stead fully discharged our debts which we else could never have sati●fied by whom onely we receive the Atonement I had also a far more pretious and inlarged discovery of these things then I am now able to mention with many choice Scriptures brought to my mind as to this head Namely (h) Psalm 68.18 Thou hast ascended on high Thou hast led captivity captive Thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them and that by Christ all hand-writings that were against us were taken out of the way and nailed to his Cross who hath spoiled principalities and Powers triumphing over them openly And that by him the sting of death and strength of the Law were taken away According to his good word (i) 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. Oh Death I will be thy death O Grave I will be thy destruction The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law But thanks be to God who giveth us the Victory through our Lord ●esus Christ Oh! these Scriptures were FOOD AND STRENGTH to my soul At this time also

as an abominable evil in me and desired the Lord to look with an eye of Pardon and compassion upon me and not to suffer me to hearken to the Devil's suggestions to dishonour him but make me esteem highly of all his Commands desiring he would according to his promise put his fear into my heart that I might not depart from him and that seeing he is able to save to the utmost and had promised so to do as also to tread down Satan under foot and to work and none should let All which he having given me experience of his making them good to my soul formerly I now begg'd he would further strengthen my Faith concerning them as also in that good word of his in keeping me by his Almighty Power through Faith unto Salvation And now did I find the Lords gratious answer to my poor souls desire in many of these things as first in upholding and keeping me against the Tempters suggestion as I had desired that I was not overcome by them though when I awaked this night the Tempter met me again with his Assaults but I was helpt to strive against them crying to the Lord for help to stand strength to overcome and he did help and succour me against them and incouraged me to believe his word and to call to mind the depths of distresses he had by his out-stretched Arm and infinite love and pitty raised my soul out of and he minded me how he had supported me when I was ready to sink under the weight of my Iniquities and wrath due to them yet he then upheld me and delivered me and had said he would not forsake me These considerations did support and enable me still to trust in him that had wrought so wonderfully and appeared so eminently for my poor soul as he had done and I was now inabled to believe that good word (x) Isai 49.10 They shall not hunger nor thirst neither shall the heat of the Sun smite them for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of Waters shall he guide them As also that (y) John 7.38 He that believeth on me the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living waters These with many more promises were now given in fully answering to all my wants and removing my fears I was also inabled to judge him faithful that had promised and so to look upon his promises as so many love-tokens from him in the way of his free grace to my soul through Christ my Redeemer and seeing Baptism now upon all the considerations aforesaid my duty to which again was added afresh this Scripture (z) Rom. 6.4 5. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death c. And my soul laid under the Power of the truth in it that as I did expect advantage by the Lord Christ his death and Resurrection to my poor soul so I ought by my visible obedience to this his Command to declare my putting him on and my being planted in the likenesse of his death being buried with him by Baptism into death and also my being raised with and by him and the Power of his Resurrection unto newnesse of life and my resolving in his strength to walk accordingly all which ends Baptism according to this Scripture I judged lively held forth I was upon the whole inabled to come to resolve through grace to yield obedience thereunto as unto a Command of Christ my Lord expecting his assistance and blessing therein According to his word (a) John 14.21 He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self unto him As also that word (b) Isai 64.5 Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh Righteousness those that remember thee in thy wayes In the Faith of which promises and fear of the name of the Lord I intend through his gratious assistance to yeeld obedience accordingly in that and all his Commandments the love of Christ being of a constraining nature to my soul by which I have been caused to consider what he hath done for me in perfecting the work of my Redemption and also to think how little I am called to do or suffer for him who hath done so much for my sake (c) Isai 53.5 He being wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our Iniquities the chastisements of our peace being on him by whose stripes we are healed (d) Philip. 2.7 Who being in the Forme of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God yet made he himself of no Reputation but humbled himself and became obedient to death even to the death of the Crosse for our sakes These considerations are of a Constraining nature to my soul to obey him in all things I also considered what I should have undergone to Eternity had it not been for what he hath done and suffered to deliver me from wrath to come I also thought how little all the suffering of this world are to those I should have under-gone had not he Redeemed me from those Eternal miseries which indeed makes all the afflictions of this present life seem little and light to me when I seriously think of them According to that (e) Rom. 8.18 For I reckon the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us and that (f) 2 Cor. 4.17 18. our light affliction that is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are Eternal and that (g) 2 Cor. 5.14 the love of Christ constrains us because we thus judge that if Christ died for all then were all dead that they which live should not live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again And that (h) 1 Cor. 6.20 for you are bought with a price therefore glorify God both in your souls and bodies which are his and ought to be offered up as a living sacrifice (i) Rom. 12.1 Holy and acceptable unto him which is but our reasonable service according to the will of him who hath of his own will begotten us unto a lively Faith in Christ Jesus unto whom be glory in the Churches by Christ Jesus thorowout all Ages World without end AMEN FINIS An abstract of the principal parts of the fore-going Narrative which the Reader will find to be in substance as followeth though by reason of the mixture and variety of the matter it cannot be so distinctly composed as otherwise it might be I. A Particular Relation of her distressed estate and condition for fourteen years time wherein she was exercised with various temptations concluding