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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

TRODDEN DOWN STRENGTH BY THE GOD OF STRENGTH OR M RS 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 be ore her death Related by her somtime unworthy friend HART ON-HI PSAL. 66.16 Come and heare all yee that feare God and I will declare what he hath done for my soule LONDON Printed by R. Bishop for Stephen Pilkington and are to be sold at his Shop next to the Red-lyon Inne in Fleet-Street 1647. Novemb. 12. 1646. I Have perused this Discourse concerning Mrs Drakes dangerous tentations and feareful desertions with her blessed recovery and joyfull issue out of all her troubles and think it well worthy to be Printed and published as a singular antidote to preserve others in her condition from being plunged into and quite swallowed up with deep despaire Iohn Downame TO THE MEMORIE OF THAT EVER MEMORABLE MERCY SHEWED UNTO THAT LATE WORTHY GENTLEWOMAN OF FAMOVS MEMORY Mrs IOANE DRAKE IN ESCAPING SATANS MANY MIGHTY AND IN SHEW INVINCIBLE TEMPTATIONS TRODDEN DOWNE STRENGTH OR MRS DRAKE REVIVED THE matchlesse rare Case and in that kinde unparalleld trouble of that sometime worthy Gentlewoman Mrs Ioan Drake of famous memory wife of Francis Drake late of Esher Esquire with the glorious and strange conclusion the Lord made with her I believe the like never read nor heard of was the cause of writing this ensuing discourse Whose Case and trouble of ten years continuance being so rare and seldome met with for that the Relation thereof might perhaps help some hard-hearted mourning Creatures hereafter to gather heart and strength not to despaire how desperate soever their Case may seeme either to themselves or others to be I have therefore by Gods help and for the comfort of such undertaken to set down here for the glory of God and confusion of Satan her maine strong enemy her Case and cause thereof with the progresse and issue of all as briefly as possibly I could to remaine as a pertuall monument whilst time lasts of Gods great goodnesse and infinite mercies even to the most hard-hearted and miserable that may be To the end that as it was said by Iames of Iob and his Case Behold the Patience of Job and what end the Lord made so it may likewise hereafter be said of this good woman Behold the hardnesse of heart stiffnesse and stoutnesse of Mrs Drake for a long time rejecting all meanes in a long continuance and what a comfortable end the Lord made with her Wherefore it being a discourse full of windings and turnings fraught with many of Satans subtilties and intricate multifarious tentations wherein Proteus like he according unto the occasion changed shapes to have overthrown this good Gentlewoman all the ends whereof cannot because of the variety and strangnesse easily be knit together I doe entreat the Readers patience to beare with me if sometimes I seeme to loose my selfe or be too tedious or for want of memory and multiplicity of matter be enforced sometimes to bring Hysteron Proteron But howsoever the businesse if largely related might fill up a very great volumne I intend only as I am able to gather together some of the most speciall materiall things knitting them as briefly as may be together seeing by Gods mercy I was made an unworthy Instrument of her recovery and an eye-witnessing Actor in all her Tragick-Comedy Not daring but to erect this Trophee of eternall thankfulnesse for her in imitation of former Worthies in their deliverances I was enforced and durst not but thus vent the businesse of her rare Case unto succeeding Posterity First we will shew how shee was set upon and assaulted in the night with fear and horror with her foregoing disposition character and what fore-runners ushered this her distemper which raised so great a storme Secondly By what strange meanes and way the Lord made the Relater an unworthy Instrument to have compassion on her and finde her out helping to furnish her with the Instrument and means of her recovery and what entertainment shee gave that meanes at his first comming unto her and after untill the time that shee revealed the Devils counsell was contented to live and use the meanes having any hope to be saved Thirdly Her deportment and carrige from this fornamed time untill a little before her death Fourthly The preparation unto her death with the strange manner how the Lord revealed himselfe unto her before the same the like never heard of 1. For the first shee was the daughter of that worthy Gentleman William Totle Esquire one of the six Clerks of Chancery his only Heire apparant being likely to have enjoyed all his fortunes which were very great according whereunto shee had all the excellent breeding which is usuall and befitted a Gentlewoman issued from such worthy Parents whose too great indulgence towards her in her youth by her own confession occasioned so much sorrow unto her in her riper years receiving then no correction at all Her character Shee was of a low well compacted stature of a lovely browne complexion having a full nimble quick Sparrow-hawke eye of a naturall joviall constitution accidentally melancholy full of love curtesie mercy and meeknesse affable in conversation with a deep and nimble quick pleasant present wit tender-hearted free and bountifull in nothing covetous but of grace the freest alive from all hypocrisie unlesse it were to bely her self wearing her worst side outmost being plaine true and tender open-hearted modest easily drawn with love and good words but if opposed stout stern and inflexible using the outward contentments of the times yet in a very indifferent modest inoffensive way resolute in her undertakings valewing even then reall goodnesse where shee saw it in any without hypocrisie detesting shewes without substance though then shee were not acquainted with the power of godlinesse yet had shee it in admiration where she saw it shine forth so as though sometimes in a little mirth she would vex and jest with the supposed worser sort who at good times came to her of her neighbours yet those who were in her judgement right she used thus farre to open her selfe unto her waiting woman touching them in this strange presaging manner Doest thou see these people some of whom I doe so jeare at and vex of my conscience I shall one day ere I die bee one of them for those of them who are right are the only happy souls which was a strange prediction of her even then when shee was so farre from and contrary unto them as afterwards it came to passe Cause of her melancholy Gods providence and her Parents pleasure appointed unto her a Match but such a one thought he was a worthy fine Gentleman of good birth parts and fortunes yet whom at first shee could not affect so as she was married against her will a great Over-sight in Parents

sincere plaine true heart full and abounding in love mervellous secret in all her goodnesse very charitable to the poore of an unblameable conversation and life and the best Anti-hypocrite Christ excepted that ever lived for she alwayes wore her worst side outmost and wonderfully clock'd all the good things shee ever did or said with all her skill endevouring to extenuate all shee this way did or said Of her jewels and other things her Husband lovingly gave her way to dispose of shee left Legacies and remembrances unto all her friends who had beene most helpfull unto her and forty shillings a piece unto some few good poor women whom she had secretly unknown unto any procured to pray constantly for her And now that we have brought this good Creature into Heaven god Reader give mee leave out of all which hath been said for memories sake to sum up briefly her grand Case least it should be mistaken A good Creature in her naturall estate The sum of this grand Case qualified with the best of meere natures endowments accidentally encountring with some grand difficulties which a little overcame her natural parts By the way being surprized with admiration and wonder at the power of godlinesse in some eminent Professors her Neighbours the reflex whereof struck her with a strong conviction not to be yet the same as to bee saved shee must needs bee with her other concurring crosses wrought so upon her as shee became very melancholy yet with an enforced mirth to cloke the same which advantage Satan espying who still loves to work out his ends by that dolefull temper he assaults her with fearefull night-dreames seconded with divers wilde-fire temptations to have driven her unto finall dispaire which hee had well neare effected Meane while God intending to make her an everlasting monument of his mercy intending a great work unto others by her trouble and deliverance to convert by the way her Husband and Parents with divers others in both Families so stopping divers gaps with one bush and as hee alwayes doth and hath done to over-shoot Satan in his own Bow provides and sends one of a thousand to finde her out wrastle with all her temptations foyle Satan and convince her judgement so drawing her unto a conformity of the meanes though with much opposition But yet so as an habituall indisposition shee had acquired spiced with the dregges of remaining temptations kept her off from endeavour never all this time having had any comfort or feeling without paines taking for it in the interim shee is well beaten God at length yeelding unto the importunity of prayers for her affords her such an immense measure of comfort and feeling for a small time as mortality was incapble to retaine After which her spirits thereby vanquished out-wearied with watching and incessant speaking for divers dayes and nights together for a small time shee bewrayes some weaknesse But upon a private Fast kept for her two dayes before her death shee revives againe maintaines her grounds former joyes and feeling from thence untill her death remaining in a silent Rapture of joyes wherein shee departed leaving her selfe the ever memorable mirror of Gods wonderfull mercies unto all the stiffe obdurate hard-hearted for ever And now good Reader tell mee Is it fit or possible that we should part with so grand strange rare and matchlesse a CASE without some briefe use thereof unto the Survivers for which cause it hath beene written and for ought wee know all her sufferings were O no courage then hold out a little and I will now dispatch briefly endeavouring in the Catastrophe of this our Tragi-Comedie to recompence thy patience with the fragrances of some sweet smelling close of some Divine rarities Vse First Then here wee may learne That not the great things of this world makes one happy but the favour of the great God Nothing being able to content the soule but that which is able to fill it which all this world cannot doe Shewing that there is nothing such in these earthly things as wee imagine in the evill day or times of tryall Witnesse this good Gentlewoman the subject of our discourse who might have swimmed in the fulnesse of all earthly pleasures all which were nothing unto her shee was dampt in the midst of all so as nothing could revive or joy her like unto David save the light of Gods countenance to be lifted up upon her And therefore not to deceive our selves but to settle in our judgements that wherein onely true solid lasting happinesse consists the favour of God and follow that with all our might Secondly Then see hence That of all the Burthens in this world sinne is the most insupportable especially when therewith in any measure is joyned a sense of the wrath of God For if God as it is in Amos complaine that hee is pressed down under the same as a Cart under the sheaves the sense thereof also making David to roare for griefe of heart having also bred so much terror amazement and trouble unto this good Gentlewoman for so many yeares together being free of grosse sinnes what may they think of themselves who goe on sinning without feare living and going on in grosser sins without repentance Thirdly Here we may see That in the best where there is sinne there must and will bee smarting punishments though it be forgiven as Davids was Yet we may soundly be beaten for the same he taking vengeance of our inventions as the Psalmist speaks for this good Gentlewoman though saved and forgiven yet was soundly beaten ere shee departed hence Therefore to bee afraid to sinne and to stand in awe of the anger of the great God for though hee may forgive yet if hee open Hell unto us keep us in perpetuall fear as upon the rack as he did this good Gentlewoman letting Satan loose to buffet her oh what comfort can we have in such a tormenting dying life having our happinesse hid from our eyes Fourthly Hence also we may learn That the more beloved usually the soundlier beaten sifted and tried Amos 3. You only have I known of all the Nations of the Earth therefore you shall not goe unpunished for all your iniquities wherefore corrections being a sign of love not of reprobation as the Devill perswades that the Saints should not be discouraged though storme-beaten in their journey homewards they may goe to Heaven for all this as this good Gentlewoman did Fifthly And so here also we may gather what need we have of patience to have its perfect work in us to fit us for the greatest and most smarting afflictions there being yet some light in this darke cloud the sorest and most smarting crosses ending usually in the greatest and most glorious deliverances Witnesse the none-such troubles of Iacob Ioseph Iob David the Churches forty years Pilgrimage in the Wildernesse of this good Gentlewoman all ending in peace and joy because the promise is that of necessity the patient abiding of the