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A true relation of Mr. Iustice Cook's passage by sea from Wexford to Kinsaile and of the great storm and eminent danger that he with others were in, with the wonderful appearance of the power & goodness of God in their deliverance according as it was revealed to him in a dream : as also M. Deedate with other witnesses (in Genevah) opinion concerning dreams occasioned by a remarkeable profettick dream of a Protestant marques daughter in Poland / all faithfully communicated as received from his own hand in the year 1650.
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Cook, John, d. 1660.
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in love along with us it almost split my heart to think what the Malignants would say in England when they hear that we were drowned how they would abuse that passage of Paul Acts 28.4 That though vengeance hath not overtaken me at Land yet I was met withal at Sea much troubled I was at the manner of the death such extraordinary violent deaths importing the nature of some heavy Judgement as if the Lord hath been displeased with us and had not sent us and Jonahs storm was much in my thoughts I having spoken some words of Exhortation to the company out of that Scripture before the storm began for God sent that great storm Jonah 1.4 because Jonah went contrary to his Commands where I observed That when a Christian is in Gods way upon Gods errand sent to Sea usually God makes the Winde and the Seas favourable to him upon such considerations and many obiections made by flesh and blood I had very much trouble with my unbelieving heart and could not bring my mind to be willing to die earnest I had been in secret prayer at the Throne of Grace before for 16. or 18. hours together pleading with the Lord that if it were possible this cup of his indignation might pase over us that in Judgments he would remember Mercy however that we might cheerfully submit to his sweet pleasure the materials of my long suggested prayers were meditations and applications of several Scriptures which mention Gods power wisdome and love in the Seas God having put it into my minde not long before to note most of the chief places is Scripture concerning the Seas as proper and usefull for a Sea-voyage I prest my dear Christ not to drown us for said I we fight for thy Kingly Office throw the Agyptians and all thy emplacable enemies into the midst of the Sea but let us be preserved that we may praise thy Name Exod. 14.27 30. 15.1 Lord this is a calamity too heavy for thy poor creatures to beare Job 6.3 were it not that thou hast cast our sins into the depths of the Seas Micah 7.19 Lord suffer not the deeps to swallow us up Psal 69.15 Let not all thy waves and billowes pass over us We have seen thy wonders in the deep Psal 107.23 And if thou save us we shall declare them to the children of men but if thou make our graves in the Sea the dead cannot praise thee Psal 115.17 thou Lord which leadest thy Servants through the deep prepare dry Land for us Lord why should not the Seas be as favourable to thy servants as the dry Land Thou layest up the depth in store-houses Psal 33.7 Thou Lord canst still the noyse of the waves Psal 65 7. Psal 68.22 was a comfortable place to me that the Lord promised to bring again his people from the depth of the Sea Sweet Christ do thy Office and be a Savour to thy people both for Souls and Bodies thou layest the beames of thy Chambers in the waters 10.4 Psal 3. and rulest the raging of the Seas Psal 89.9 Now Lord the floods have lifted up their voyce and their waves Psal 93.2 but thou art mightyer than the mighty waves of the Sea The fishes of the Sea shall shrink at thy presence but why art thou so angry with thy servants who art sent in thy service Lord cast the great Dragon into the Bottomless Pit that old Serpent called the Devil and Sathan Revel 12.9 but let thy people live to praise thee thou Lord canst say to the Sea Be dry Esa 44.27 Esa 50.2 and canst easily bring us safe to land Lord hast not thou made the depths of the Sea a way for thy ransomed ones to pass over Esa 51.10 Why must then thy servants be drowned as if they were in this Malefactors Ionah ran away from thee and would not obey thee being unwilling to be the mouth and proclaimer of thy Iustice upon Nineveh the head of the Assyrian Empire and thou sentest out a great winde and there was a mighty tempest in the Sea Ionah 4. which was no ordinary wind but sent as a punishment for his disobedience yet because he was thy servant and was not selvish nor displeased in thy shewing mercy for fear of his being thought a false Prophet but out of zeal for thy glory which he thought was wronged and obscured by that change and out of his ardent affection to thy people that their enemies should live and though he said he did well to be angry even unto death they being not words of expresse rebellion but of a passionate Spirit blinded with anger therefore when he prayed unto thee out of the belly of Hell he was mightily preserved Now Lord thou which wast a God so gracious and merciful slow to anger of great kindness towards the Heathens in Niveveh shall not we find thy mercy if thou hast any further work for us to do in our generation we shall Lord it is the wicked that is like the troubled Sea whose water casts up mire and dirt Isa 57.20 Thy Justice was very wonderful and glorious at Wexford in drowning those Pirates and wicked men in the Sea that had done so much mischief to thy people in that Element and what will thy enemies say when the carkasses of thy people are given to be food for the Fishes Lord command this great wind into thy treasure and bring forth winds serviceable for us that we may have an auspicious gale and an expeditious fail into some Harbour where it shall please thy Majesty for thy poor creatures are at their wits end and death appears in their faces thou only canst shut up the Sea with doors Job 38.8 Thou makest the deep to boyle like a pot and makest the Sea like a pot of oyntment as if the Sea was hoary by the long white frothy path Job 41.31 32. Sweet Christ thou hast dominion from Sea to Sea Psal 72.8 and thou hast given to the Sea a decree that the waters pass not thy commands Prov. 8.29 Therefore though the Sea Roar and threaten to swallow us up yet unless thou givest it a commission to devour us it cannot hurt us sweet Christ the Sea is unto thee as the dry land the winds and Seas will obey thee dear Redeemer wilt not thou speak one word to save the lives of thy own members Matth. 8.26 27. and 14.27 Mark 4.29 Peace Be still will make a great calm Lord assure some of thy poor Servants that all shall be well as thou didst to blessed Paul Acts 27.23 Give some vision and manifestation of thy love for it was for thy sake that we committed our selves to the Sea let some of thy Servants in the Ship be assured from Heaven that we shall be safe however Lord let thy will be our wills with other Scriptures not now perfectly remembred Now after long Prayers and meditations it pleased God about six on the Sabbath day night that the Lord Jesus Christ began to quiet my Spirit in himself and I was well perswaded to die and began to be ravisht with the Consideration of the joyes of Heaven how