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A80409	A true relation of Mr. Iohn Cook's passage by sea from Wexford to Kinsale in that great storm Ianuary 5. Wherein is related the strangeness of the storm, and the frame of his spirit in it. Also the vision that he saw in his sleep, and how it was revealed that he should be preserved, which came to pass very miraculously. Likewise a relation of a dream of a Protestant lady in Poland, which is in part come to pass, the remainder being to begin this year 1650. / All written by himself.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6026A; Thomason E598_1; ESTC R206300	12,690	16

sent that great storm Jon. 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 objections made by flesh blood I had very much trouble with my unbelieving heart 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 pass 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 severall 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 in Scripture concerning the Seas as proper and usefull for a Sea-voyage I prest my deere Christ not to drown us for said I we fight for thy Kingly office throw the Aegyptians and all thy implacable enemies into the midst of the Sea but let us be preserved that we may prayse thy Name Exod. 14.27 30. 15.1 Lord this is a calamity too heavy for thy poor creatures to bear Iob 6.3 were it not that thou hast cast our sinnes into the depths of the Seas Micha 7.19 Lord suffer not the deeps to swallow us up Psal 69.15 Let not all thy waves and billowes passe 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 favorable to thy servants as the dry land Thou layest up the depth in storehouses Psal 33.7 Thou Lord canst still the noyse of the waves Psal 65.7 Ps 68.22 was a comfortable place to me that the Lord promised to bring againe his people from the depth of the Sea Sweet Christ do thy office and be a Saviour to thy people both for soules and bodies thou layest the beams 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 mightier then 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 are sent in thy service Lord cast the great Dragon into the bottomlesse pit that old Serpent called the Devill and Sathan Revel 12.9 but let thy people live to prayse 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 disobedince yet because he was thy servant and was not selvish nor displeased in thy shewing mercy for feare of his being thought a false prophet but out of zeale for thy glory which he thought was wronged and obscured by that change and out of his ardent affectiton 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 Nineveh 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 wonderfull 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 windes serviceable for us that we may have an auspicious gale and an expeditious saile into some Harbor 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 Iob 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 passe not thy commands Prov. 8.29 Therefore though the sea roare 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 deere Redeemer wilt not thou speak one word to save the lives of thy own members Matth. 8.26 27. 14.27 Mark 4.29 Peace Be still will make a great calme 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 wils with other Scriptures not now perfectly remembred Now after long prayers and meditations it pleased God about six on the Sabboth 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 quickly I and my poor heart should be in our Masters joyes that expression of entring into my Masters joy affected me much that the joy was too big to enter into me I must be swallowed up in it and that my Masters joy could be no small joy thereupon I spake comfortably to my wife desiring her to cheer up for that we should suddenly be in Heaven if the Lord was pleased thus to take us to himself who resigned her soul to God and we took our leaves solemnly of

heard of till the very day the ship was going out of the Harbour and then somebody that had it could not be quiet till he brought it out to let us see how weak our faith and confidence is in the Lord and that he will performe with his poore servants to a Title of his promise I know that usually dreames follow mens naturall inclination or their daily conversation as in Pharaohs Butler and Baker they dreamed of wine and baskets of meate matters about which they were ordinarily imployed Gen. 40. and I having beene in a continued meditation of Jesus Christ his love power bowells of pitty towards his members it was most likely that if I dreamed of any thing I should dreame of him as mary times upon the Sabboths nights I have dreamed that I was in the very same company and at the same exercises as I was upon the day and indeed the consideration of Christs humanity his being at Sea and his experimentall knowledge of our miseries much supported me how many prayers did we put up for a safe passage which though they do not move the Lord by any eloquence as an Orator moves his hearers yet they move the Lord as the cryes of children make the bowels of thelr Parents yearne towards them and we must distinguish between shadowes and substances dreames are but the appearances of things which are not naturall dreams are either sinfull deceitfull vaine as Isa 29.8 the hungry thirsty man dreames that he eats and drinks but he awakes and his soule is faint for food or else they are representations of things past which were really done or things to come which falls out accordingly and the matter of the dreame is principally to be regarded some Christians have had difficult places of Scripture expounded to them in their dreames as they have told me Therefore although dreames which are naturall and ordinary be of little or no account yet extraordinary dreames many times prove true as if one cry in his dream or be so fast aslcep that he feels not pinching when the Imagination is so extraordinarily powerfull and that the party dreaming is confidently perswaded that it will come to passe it commonly proves accordingly as that of Katherin de Medicis Queen of France who dreamed that Hen. the Second should be killed at the Tilt and said she would venture her soule upon it And so he was killed by a Scots man Montgomery as she dreamed Petrarch in Padova dreamed that a Scorpion stung him to death that was in one of the Lyons that stand before a statue which they fondly call Sancta Iustina the next morning he told his dreame went thither and put in his hund into the hole and out came a Scorpion which poysoned him whereof he dyed the great Souldier Farese the night before he dyed dreamed that he was drowned and that his Saint Christopher could not carry him over the River and the next day the Ferry-boat sunk and he was drowned In 1629. Christina a Protestant Marquesses Daughter in Poland dreamed that Jesus Christ had told her comfortable things for the Protestants as the good successe of the King of Sweden the death of the Emperors Generall Walston and that it might be the better believed she should dye four dayes and revive againe one Minister Cotu●nius slighted it as a delusion and vaine fancie she told him that God was angry with him and such a day his only child should dye and himselfe presently after which both proved true she likewise fell into a Trance for eight and fourty houres and then revived and foretold victories of the King of Sweden but that God would take him away because the people began to make a God of him and thought him to be invincible She dreamed that she was married to Jesus Christ and that she had a Crown of Glory promised her if she could persevere in the faith and told her she would be mockt and scoft at by many who would not believe but that such visions proceeded from imagination melancholly humours or weaknesse of braine but bad her not be d scouraged shewing her a cup of blood which he said he would poure upon those that persecute his servants and that she prayed very earnestly for the salvation of a deerfriend of hers who was in armes against the Protestants but that shee could not prevaile for the salvation of any of her friends but only for her s●fe and that night the same party d●ed she likewise in ●er dreame saw two great persons comming to be judged one a Papist who had pray 〈◊〉 much ●o his St. Francis and desired to be admitted into Heaven but Jesus Christ bad him go to H●ll to ●aint Francis 〈◊〉 he was immediatly dragged and the other was a Prow●●●● who argued for his salvation because he fought against the P●p●●● and the Ministers assured him of Heaver● Jesus Christ said ●e will put out his candle in Germany for it gives a fa●●● light 〈…〉 without but it is full of filth and selfe righteousnesse with 〈…〉 likewise saw a man upon a Tree adored by many and 〈◊〉 Lyons came to the Tree and pluckt it down and an Eagle was flying away which the Lyons caught and ●oare in pieces and ●●king Jesus Christ the meaning of that vision he told that that the man was that horrid beast the Pope of Rome my capitall enemy not a Pastor but a Woolfe that sayes behold I am set aloft who dare come to touch me the Lyons are the French English Sweads Hollanders Venetians and others that shall pluck down the proud beast and powre out my wrath upon her and her adherents and tha it should begin about 1650. and be compleat by 1666. in her sleep she was heard to say welcome Husband and laughed heartily and as shee awaked shee said farewell deere Husband and she dreamed many thing more which fell out accordingly being a vertuos child naturally merry In 1633. she was marryed in Lesno in Poland and most of the Ministers in Germany have subscribed to it for they seriously consulted about it and sent into Holland and Geneva for assistance and advise and the result of the conference which Mr. Deodate shewed me at Geneva came to this in Christinaes dreame they did believe there was a divine light for first the young Lady was regenerate and very zealous for the glory of God so there was a good life in the person dreaming Secondly there was a full perswasion of heart that it was from God and it would prove true Thirdly there was a certitude in the event the party was not deceived for it proved so and it was likewise their judgements that in a time of generall persecution or some extraordinary eminent danger God might and did many times speake comfortable things to his people in dreames as in the late Bohemian warres many Calvinists were admonisht in their dreames to goe to places of security which they attending were safe from the enemy as the Angell of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a dreame and bad him flee with Jesus Christ into Egypt Mat. 2.13 and others that heglected such dreames have afterwards repented it The Lord keep us all that were made partakers of so great a mercy in an humble believing and thankfull posture that we may spend the remainder of our new lives in the zeale of his service as those that having their lives prolonged so extraordinarily are exceedingly obliged more then othhers to walk answerably to so great a mercy FINIS