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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

one time she would never do so any more to attempt any such tryall Whereupon at length all adventured to suffer her once more to see what Gods providence would prove in so strange a Case But withall if some crosse place came they prayed her not to bee discouraged whereupon shee suddenly opened the Book about the middle thereof in the Prophesie of Isaiah and without looking what shee did she put her finger upon that excellent vers Isa 40.27 Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel my way is hid from the Lord hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding hee giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth sirength even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles and they shall walk and not faint Which place being considered of and read so crossing her hopes and expectation made her being much abashed to blush For therein shee was reproved for her crosse conceits of God touching her as neglected of the Almighty and for all her weaknesse and imperfections was shewed that God could help all who with a word made heaven and earth enabling her to doe all duties at his good pleasure being therewith encouraged to wait and depend upon God in the use of meanes by such an excellent promise And so was therewith shewed how good God was unto her every way shewing love notwithstanding her untowardnesse and tempting of him by such signes At which not knowing what to say shee flung off poorely saying Object this was promised to Iacob and Israel It was nothing unto her and her Case Whereunto answer was made out of that place Answ Rom. 15. Whatsoever was written before hand was written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope and so was thereby vanquished in judgement that she promised now to be satisfied and never any more to make any such tryall but to offer her selfe unto the use of meanes and to wait the Lords leisure what hee pleased to doe with her Yet still alleadging the impotency in her that she was able to doe nothing herein towards this great work but that God must doe all when being enabled shee would doe that whereunto she should be strengthned Shee is perswaded to mine in singing of some ●rt of Psalms Yet wanted there one thing more to get her to joyn in singing of Psalmes which with much adoe shee was brought unto alleadging that her Case admitted of no such melody neither had shee cause to sing but to mourn all her life time Yet being told that is was a duty to sing prayses unto God for all his mervellous mercies power and goodnesse as well as to joyn in hearing of the Word and that thanksgiving being the everlasting work of Heaven in continuall praysing of God was a work could not be too soone begun upon earth and that the Psalmes being of divers compositions and postures of thanksgiving petition gratulation complaint and deprecation shee might joyne in some many of which might fit her Case shee was contented to joyn in Psalmes of complaint petition mourning and deprecation but in no other of any acknowledgement of any mercy received For said she If I be onely reserved as a stalled Oxe unto the slaughter what cause have I to give thanks and if I be not to goe to Heaven what have I to doe with the work of Heaven before the time or having some work wrought in me whereby I may be assured of my interest therein About this time willingly shee would have lived under some powerfull Ministry Why shee would have lived under a powerful Ministry hoping that thereby some such work might be wrought upon her as might enable her to performe duties and for this cause secretly made the Relator goe into Essex to try whether or not that worthy powerfull late thundering Preacher Mr Rogers of Dedham would have entertained her at his house who willingly granted the same But when the businesse was moved unto her Father and Mother neither they nor her Husband would consent unto the same though Mr Dod and Mr Culvervell both affected to have gone with her so too indulgent were they over her which refulsall much unhookt her spirit and had almost put her in her former Case againe so much did it afflict her but no remedy An experience of her spirit of Satans malice against her at length shee conformed her selfe unto necessity I should much trangsgressse and wrong this discourse of Gods mercies into this good creature if I should omit any passage of Satans subtelties and attempts against her how farre they prevailed for so the Power and goodnesse of God unto her in saving her at length will so much the more evidently appeare to his glory Therefore this ensuing passage I relate as the furthest extent of Satans malice One day as shee was walking in her garden at Waltham upon Thames with the Relator and another friend for Esher that place where her trouble first began shee never after could endure suddenly shee stopt and fixed her eyes fast upon the ground staring upon it with strange wilde looks for halfe a quarter of and hour from which we could hardly divert her but at last did though shee seemed much troubled to be interrupted and then as her cusstome was when the waters of her spirits and thoughts were become muddy she began to seem to cast off all means again saying That her heart was so heard as it could never bee softned this was by those with her then much opposed and denyed as fast as she affirmed the same enforcing that God who with a Word made Heaven and Earth could soften it wherunto shee in anger replyed why then God cannot soften my heart at hearing of this blasphemous speech spoken in the heigth of temptation the Relator without speaking one word unto her suddenly left her for such speeches were not to be born with countenanced or disputed with but to be cast off with detestation and abomination for contra principiis non est disputandum they say A little while after shee being then ready to ride abroad and goe to her house at Esher to take the aire going to take horse shee demanded of the Relator whether hee would not ride abroad with her whereunto hee replyed No he durst not goe in her company who did so lately blaspheme for fea● the ground would open and swallow them up but that seeing under the Law the blaspemer was to die the death that he would go to the Archbishop and complaine of her heard witnesse against her and provide faggots to burn her wherewith we both parred in seeming discontent She being gone the Relator ere his

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