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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45720	The firebrand taken out of the fire, or, The wonderfull history, case, and cure of Mis Drake, sometimes the wife of Francis Drake of Esher in the county of Surrey, Esq., who was under the power and severe discipline of Satan for the space of ten yeares, and was redeemed from his tyranny in a wonderfull manner a little before her death,by the great mercy of God, and (instrumentally) by the extraordinary paines prayers, and fastings, of fource reverend divines, whose names are here subscribed, viz. B. Vsher, D. Preston, M. Hooker, M. Dod; Trodden down strength by the God of strength	Hart, John, D.D.	1654 (1654)	Wing H949; ESTC R15516	54,457	202

way-going went to her waiting-woman and left his remembrance unto her which when her woman at her return told her shee would not believe that hee had so done but asked her Maide what farwell didst thou think hee gave me That he would goe complaine of me and provide faggots to burne me To which her Maide answered Then Mistrisse you have spoken some strange untoward things I think I did so said shee In this interim the Relator sent and wrote very kindly to her in his absence and after a Moneths time returned againe unto her when Confession shee prayed him to stay no more so long away gave him thanks for his harsh usage of her saying shee had deserved worse and would never so doe any more Telling also that then when formerly she had stood staring on the ground she was then assaulted with fierce and strong temptations all the while a brick making for the Devill and prayd him when he sam her do so any more to put her out of that posture and not to spare her how angry soever shee should for the time bee Now as shee was in a seeming good tune and posture of endeavour to use the meanes A new storme 〈◊〉 tumbling over the Bible she encountred with that terrible place Heb. 6. enferred upon the sine against the Holy Ghost That the ground which was often watered and brings forth nothing but briers and thorns was neare unto cursing and burnig c. Which place for a few dayes put her quite off hooks againe Object affirming that shee was just so a creature that brought forth nothing but briers and thorns though she had been often watered from heaven in the use of means and therefore that she was neere unto cursing and burning First Answ This was denyed unto her that shee had ever lived under ●ny such powerfull Ministry as to have been often thus watered Secondly That shee neither hitherto had beene so had as to bring forth nothing but briers and thorns having to their knowledge brought forth and produced much good fruit of her hearing in times past though now shee were for a season over-clouded with temptations so as shee could not discerne of her own esate nor was apt to judge thereof Thirdly That this place being enforced as a reason of the sinne against the Holy Ghost against their enlightning which by her own confession was a pitch above her that hithreto shee never had attained unto therefore she needed not to make any such rigid application or construction of the place against her selfe wherewith and the like milde speeches unto her to this effect shee was an● length pacified as before The journey past recounted Good Reader be not weary I will now suddenly make way unto a conclusion for much of our work and the greatest part is done and hardest to compasse Lo now we have brought this good woman thus farre To aske the way in some sort like one of leremies Converts to Zion with her face thitherwards She is brought out of the house of bondage from her brick making slavery Pharaoh pursues as it were still after her but hath not overtaken her shee is driven to flie and wander up and downe the wildernesse now backwards now forwards as the Church in the wildernesse was ere she can arrive at her heavenly Canaan and I hope wee shall ere long see her ●erdan stand up and give her a faire passage in thither though thee hath beene well buffeted by the way First Shee hath been now convinced not to have sinned that sin against the Holy Ghost as Satan perswaded her being in this ●ettled Secondly shee hath been perswaded in that grand businesse of the Decree of God not to meddle therewith and that no Creature Devill Man or Angel save God himselfe had any knowledge thereof Thirdly In the matter of endeavour she hath been convinced ●hat shee ought and must set her selfe in what possibly shee could to ase the meanes wait therein and to trust God with the issue of all Fourthly Shee hath been perswaded to live as long as possibly shee could not to be a means of her own destruction Fifthly Shee hath been perswaded of the lawfulnesse and necessity of her communicating notwithstanding all her seeming aversnesse and indisposition thereunto Sixthly Shee hath been brought from that course in tempting God by putting her finger suddenly upon places of Scripture to try her state all which fell out contrary unto her expectation good still Seventhly How and on what conditions shee was brought to joyne in singing of Psalmes all which being past one would think that now there had not been much adoe but to have had a quick end of her troubles and sufferings But the Lord wonderfull in working and excellent infinitely in counsell and wisdome had other wise so appointed the same that shee should yet a few years longer be storm beaten and sick and wander as it were in a wildernesse ere shee arrived at her heavenly Canaan And therefore out of her habituall impotencie seeing shee was so stiffe and slow to work out her own salvation or ●ake paines for it Shee had at length her desire though hee made 〈◊〉 cost her deare ere hee at length revealed himselfe unto her And therefore hereat shee stuck still even to the last expecting what extraordinary work God would work in her to enable her to take paines for her salvation A strange temptation which all her life time could hardly ever hee quite removed Untill God in a strange and unusuall manner for matter of feeling revealed himself unto her in such a measure at mortality was incapable of to the over-comming of her spirits who lived not long after to be in its place related About this time that famous worthy man of God Mr Robert Bruce some time Minister of Edenborrow then in prison amongst the wilde Irish for not preaching or assenting unto the truth of the Earle of Gowries Treason hearing by the Relator the trouble and true state of this Gentlewomans Case with the progresse thereof and how shee had been brought to reveale the Devils counsell wrote a letter unto the Relator touching his censure of her Case and hopefull issue thereof who being for afflicted consciences one of ten thousand he himselfe having beene for twenty yeares in ●etrors of conscience ere he was forced to settle unto the Ministry gave a judicious propheticall censure of the event of her case as in some sort it fell out too long here to insert but in conclusion with this upshot That now shee had bewrayed so freely the Devils counsell hee knew that all would shortly bee well ere long and that her trouble would have ●o admiration a strange event and that for her finall estate he thanked God he made no more doubt thereof then of his own which he assured himselfe of because God had given him so large a heart to continue instant for her in prayer with a great deale of comfort concluding his letter with

dered the conveyance of our salvation as Austin speaks that he w●● made us without us will not save without us therefore that all o● life time we must be humble suto● labourers after endeavourers a● strivers after that salvation which he hath appointed for us using a●● those meanes constantly and no● to lie still in a ditch without endeavouring to rise and to cry Lord help us such a one hee told her did worthily perish It was further now also press'd unto her that God now after that miracle of all miracles in the sending his Sonne to assume our flesh and save us now ordinarily wrought not the same miraculously but by ordinary concurring meanes and endeavours revealed in the word that as those who in the Wildernesse were stung by the fiery Serpents were no healed unlesse they looked up unto the Brazen Serpent no more any now could obtaine salvation unlesse they believed in Christ its antitype And that therefore if she used not the meanes Argu ∣ ment or motive but rejected and wilfully withstood the same as there was no hope any way of salvation so if she used the meanes there being hope and many promises annexed to the same there was good hope of her salvation And put the case which hee denyted that she must needs perish Argu ∣ ment or motive yet much better it were to perish in a way of obedience and duty full of hope all the way and usually successefull whereunto were annexed many promises wherein the truth of God who cannot lie but is faithful in all his promises is engaged then in a wilfull way of disobedience That all experiences since the beginning of the world have shewed Argu ∣ ment or motive that it never yet was in vaine or unsuccessefull but alwayes advantageous and prosperous to use the meanes waite and depend upon God yea though it were as long and longer then the impotent man Ioh. 5. lay at the poole of Bethesda ere hee had help And therefore seeing her case was now just like those foure Leapers who sate at the Gate of Samaria 2 Kin. Who being like to perish in that great famine Motive pressed home resolved if and since they must needs perish if they sate still there but if they adventured into the Campe of the Aramites they might peradventure be saved at the worst but die at their approach thither finding the Amarites fled they had choyce of the spoyle So if shee used not the meanes but despised them shee must of necessity perish but if used shee might no question be saved And so to this effect were urged those places Micah 2.7 O thou that art called by the name of the house of Jacob is the Spirit of the Lord straigthned and those his doings doe not my words doe good to them that walk uprightly and this Seek yee the Lord all yee meek of the earth which have wrought his judgement seek Righteousnesse and seek meeknesse It may bee yee shall bee hid in the day of the Lords anger Zeph. 2.3 And so that of Amos 4.12 Therefore this will I doe unto thee O Israel and because I will doe these things unto thee prepare thy selfe to meet thy God O Israel even that God who is said Amos 5.8 to turn the shadow of death into the morning all which put her on strongly unto the matter of endevour seeing as it is Micah 4.12 Now know the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his counsell so that their being a possibility for ought shee could know to use the meanes as she was able them was an absolute necessity for her to submit her selfe unto the meanes These and the like things thus deliverd did much amaze her spirit to have beene thus farre deluded and mistaken in her own Case and wherein shee was so setled resolute and confident unto all which shee at length made this Reply Her convinced answer That now she was convinced and did certainly believe that none but God knew things that were to come that shee had erred in judgement in so thinking of her selfe That the desserate Case and estate shee was in had caused her to make such conclusions against her selfe That now shee believed the Devill had no knowledge of Gods Decrees concerning the everlasting estate of the creature no more then pleased God to reveale unto him That she was contented to do what shee could in using of the meanes if shee might bee assured to reape any benefit thereby But that the accidentall indisposition both of her body and minde were such as shee in this Case could doe nothing to help her selfe no more then a stark dead creature could and therefore that God must doe all in which Case if hee were so pleased to give unto her strength and grace to work then shee would otherwise she could doe nothing a sore temptation which even untill her last she could hardly shake off Answ Hereupon he Replyed that God as was said wrought by meanes and that shee was bound to read the Word diligently to pray heare the same meditate and conferre thereof That this was Gods way and appointed meanes to make even such dead creatures live as shee pretended her selfe to be as it is Ioh. 5. That the time then was and was a comming when the dead should heare the voyce of the Son of God and those who heard his voice should live Wherefore seeing that their was such a mervellous efficacy in hearing of the Word and use of meanes Wherein the power of the Spirit did co-operate to make the same effectuall There was an absolute necessity to use the meanes for the attaining of salvation or else one were thus guilty of their owne damnation in wilfull rejecting and refusing of the meanes Unto all which her answer was Her further answers That shee had no power so to doe but when that God would enable her then shee would Yet hee prayd her to read the Word and pray as shee could and the like which shee refused alleadging that she could not pray and for reading of the Word to what purpose were that so to read her own damnation or to heare judgements and arraignments against her selfe that shee was better as shee was and therefore prayd him to urge her no more in this kinde untill God were pleased to work somewhat in her with abilities so to doe which if hee had a purpose to save her hee would surely doe Shee is ●rought ●ff and from the ●hird ●●r and ●emptation But for his paines and for his conviction of her judgement rectifying of her from those forementioned errors shee gave him thanks promising no more to torment her selfe with cogitations of them for she was satisfied in the Sinne agaist the Holy Ghost in the matter of the Decree and in Satan or her ignorance of any things to come his knowledge to be none at all But that for the present here shee must rest no further shee could possibly goe wishing him to