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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80399	Mris. Cooke's Meditations, being an humble thanksgiving to her Heavenly Father, for granting her a new life, having conclnded [sic] her selfe dead, and her grave made in the bottome of the sea, in that great storme. Jan. the 5th. 1649. / Composed by her selfe at her unexpected safe arrivall at Corcke.	Cooke, Frances, fl. 1649.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6008; Thomason E600_9; ESTC R206391	13,171	16

preserved by the immediate wonderfull hand of God praise him Ye for whose sakes he rebuked the Sea and made the proud waves calme and hath set your feet upon dry ground declare that God is a present help in time of trouble Psal 46.1 verse and tell his goodnesse to the sons of men The Lord would not have his people to forget his mercies but he puts them in mind of deliverances How often doth he tell us in Scripture that he is our God and that he brought us out of the Land of Egypt and that with his holy Arme he hath wrought salvation for his chosen Ingratitude is a very great sin because it is a breach of the Commandements of God you shall glorify me saith he when I deliver you and I will be praised by them that dwell upon the earth The Lord Commands and requires his people to be thankfull for mercies and he takes it very unkindly when they will not so much as returne thanks 50. Ps 8. The Lord cares not for burnt-offering and sacrifices nor cattell upon a thousand hills nor for all the fowles of the mountaines nor the beasts of the fields but saith he gather my Saints together unto me 5. v. those that have made a Covenant with me And what doth God require of his Saints when they so assemble together to remember such mercies but prayse and thanksgiving and specially to pay their vowes unto the most high verse 14 Yet many of Gods people are very backward in duty of thanksgiving and that we see by the Lords oft putting them in mind to pay their vowes and to performe their Covenant which they make with him in the day of their affliction The Lord knowes very well when his people most frequent him as he saith Hosea 5.15 verse In their affliction they will seeke me early but in the day of their prosperity they forget their maker Hosea 8.14 So that the Lord complaines that he knowes not what to do with these people He findes such ebbings and flowings in their unconstant affections that he compares them to the clouds Hosea 6.4 Oh Efraim what shall I do unto thee oh Judah what shall I do unto thee for your righteousness is as the morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away I am confident that there is not one that was in this storme of tryall as I may so call it o● a storm wherein we might sound our hearts have the bottom of the inward vitalls discovered to our selves especially such as feared the Lord and have had former acquaintance with him by way of communion through his Son but did solemnly enter into a Covenant with God and made vowes unto the most high in the great storme that if he should come and ransome them now when they were almost sinking from the power of the grave which to all apprehensions was prepared in the seas and redeeme them from the jawes of death which then presented it selfe most dreadfull and save their lives when they saw no way to escape death That they would give up themselves wholly unto the Lord all the dayes of their lives and study how to live answerable to so great a mercy and that they woul live as refined ones whom God hath pluckt out of the fire and out of the water and if they knew any way more pure or holy then other wherein they might glorify God advance his praise they would do it and that they would not value the world nor men of the world but that they would live like those whose hearts God hath melted downe and overcome with loving kindness and mercyes preservations and deliverances a heart that God hath melted downe with a sensibleness of his spirituall and temporall deliverances will be saying Lord what wilt thou have me to do Loe I come to do thy will oh God I am ready not only to be bound but also to dye for the name of Jesus Therefore let me speake a word to them to whom God hath given new I ves and it may be hath added some yeares to these renewed lives give me leave to put you in minde to remember your vowes all the dayes of your lives and live by faith and not by sense Job would not reject the counsell of his servant and therefore I shall present some Scriptures to your considerations Jonah 1.16 we may observe there that when men are in stormes and distresses then they make vowes unto God as you may see in the 16. verse then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered sacrifice unto the Lord and made vowes David said in Psal 61.8 verse I will prayse the Name of the Lord forever that I may daily performe my vowes Psal 116.17 verse I will offer unto the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving I will pay my vowes unto the Lord in the presence of all his people When thou vowest unto the Lord deferre not to pay it Eccles 5.4 v. Job 22.27 verse Thou shalt make thy prayer unto the Lord and he shall heare thee and thou shalt pay thy vowes Numb 30.2 verse If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or sweare an oath to bind his soule with a bond he shall not breake his word but he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth Deut. 23.21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee God hath granted me the thing I prayed for although he did not evidence to my heart then that it should be granted but he calmed and contented my heart by giving me a quiet rest of spirit to submit to my Fathers good wil pleasure that living or dying it should goe well with me and that I was not my owne but bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 and therefore must glorifie God both in my body and soule which are his The Lord comes to the quick and puts me to the tryall that I might know what temper I was made of and what was in my owne heart whether I had improved my talent and what stock of grace I had gained to support at such a time of need and if I had a spirit that durst encounter with death let him appeare never so terrible and in this trying condition the Lord kept me under water as I may say and expostulated the case with me and put questions to my soule and pleaded with me about life and death I mean onely this temporall death for I blesse God I know that my Redeemer lives all the time of the storme the Lord did sweetly smile upon my soule and I found a strong sensiblenesse of his love and favourable presence in supporting my faith to believe and in giving me assurance of my eternall salvation thorough Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour But concerning the being delivered from the power of the waves the rage of the sea and the danger

Dreamed that Jesus Christ told him so and therefore he would believe it I find that God had formerly revealed Himself to His servants by Visitions and Dreames as in the 1 Kings 3.5 Verse when the Lord so lovingly appeared to Solomon and asked him what he should doe for him as if he would lay aside all his VVill and desires and condescend to Solomons request Aske what I should give thee saith God as if he would refer Himself to Solomons demands and say not as I will but as thou wilt which is the highest expression of love from the Lord to the Creature as I have found in all the Booke of God and yet we see that it was in a Dreame that the Lord thus revealed his infinite Love so that we may here learne there is no time excluded from GODS manifesting Himself to His People but that it is all one to Him to speak in a Dreame by Night as in a Cloud by Day Verse 5. Yet I marvelled at His confidence and could not believe it as to assure my self of my life but my fears were much above my hopes I confess I had a submissive hope to have life but no assurance at all of life It was enough as Jacob said that my son Joseph is yet alive it was enough for me that my Soul should ever live with the Lord and upon this rock he brought me and set my feet upon that rock that was higher then I which only is my rock and my salvation Psal 62.2 Upon which rock the foundation of my eternal comfort was built when the rain descended and the flouds came and the wind blew and beat upon my soul my heart fell not from my God when we were like to have been split in pieces upon the rocks in the Sea called the 3 Stags I said I would cast my soul and body into the arms of my sweet Saviour and if I perished I would perish there And now seeing it hath pleased God to give us new lives let us desire one thing more of our good God which he would not deny Psal 27.4 and say with Elijah 2 King 2.9 I pray thee let a double portion of thy Spirit be upon me as my life is doubled So let it be our souls desire to have a double portion of the Spirit of God upon this new life and withall an understanding heart 1 King 3.9 Then opened he their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures Luk 24.45 And although Elijah said to Elisha That he had asked a hard thing yet God delights that we should ask of him hard things for it is for a great God to give great things as you shall see in 1 King 3.10 And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked understanding and he gave it him and said That he had given him also that which he had not asked for which was a long life but it was but conditionally that God said Solomon should have it 1 King 3.14 And if thou wilt walk in my Ways and keep my Commandments as thy father David did then will I lengthen thy days and upon this condition the Lord gives Solomon a new life Vers 15. And Solomon awaked and behold it was a dream yet notwithstanding the thing was accomplished for in the 28. vers the people admired him and why because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do Judgment and they came from all parts of the earth which had heard of Solomon to hear him And here do I conclude humbly spreading before the Lord my earnest desires that all we Sea-partners may obtain with Elisha a double portion of the Spirit of God and with Solomon understanding hearts that we may understand the Scriptures for which I shall humbly wait at the feet of my sweet Saviour for a more glorious manifestation of his presence and for a more enlightning revelation by his blessed Spirit discovering the hidden Mysteries of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ unto my soul which is life eternal to know God and Jesus Christ his Son whom he hath sent Come my fellow-sufferers we that have had a tryal of ten days tribulation in our Sea Voyage seeing it hath pleased God to redouble our obligations in miraculous preservations let us multiply our fervent prayers and praises and redouble our thanksgiving unto the Lord of Glory that seeing these dangerous storms and tempests and sickness which we have had were not unto death but for the glory of God and that the Son of God might be glorified thereby John 11.4 Let us joyn with one consent to give him praise which is due unto his Name all the days of our pilgrimage which are few and evil Let us exceedingly rejoyce in our God while we are hereupon earth and cry Hosanna to the highest Let us so run as we may obtain a never fading Diadem of Glory amongst the Saints of that new Jerusalem which is above Let us be faithful to the death and we shall have a crown of life Rev. 2.10 For our God will surely come and his reward is with him and he will give to every one according to his works Therefore God that is rich in mercy to all that call upon him and a present help in time of trouble fill your Souls with graces of his most holy Spirit and accept all our Praises and help us to perform all our Vows and grant all our Petitions so prays Your weak Remembrancer in all Christian Love and Duty FRANCES COOK A Psalm gathered out of the Psalms of David at any landing after the great storm at sea in Ianuary 5. 1649. COme forth and barken dearest friends all such as love the Lord What he for my poor life hath done to you I will record For safety from the raging Seat this mouth to him did cry And thou my tongue make speed apace to praise him by and by To render thanks unto the Lord how great a cause have I My voyce and prayer and my complaint that heard so willingly Of his good will he hath call'd back my Soul from Hell to save He did revive when help did lack and kept me from the grave I to the Lord will pay my vows that I to him did make That if he would deliver me and not my Soul forsake Then finally while breath did last on his grace I would depend And in the house of God always my life for ever spend Therefore open to me the gates of truth and righteousnesse That I may enter into them the Lords praise to expresse God is my glory I will sing with praise unto his Name That all my vows I may fulfil and dayly pay the same Thy Servant Lord thy Servant lo I do my self confesse One of thy handmaids thou didst hear my prayer in my distresse Who with the Lord is equal then in these his works of wonder That kept me from so many deaths and brake the waves in sunder I will before the living Lord confesse his kindnesse then That shewed his wonders in the storm unto the sons of men For with his Word the Lord did make the sturdy storms to cease So that the great waves from their rage he brought to rest and peace Then was I glad when rest did come which I so much did crave And was by him to Haven brought which I so fain would have This was the mighty work of God this was the Lords own fact And it is marvellous to behold with eyes that noble act I will perform with heart so free to God my vows alwayes And I O Lord all times to thee will offer thanks and praise My Soul from death thou didst defend and kepst my heart upright That I before thee may ascend with such as live in Light I will not hide within my brest thy goodnesse as by stealth But I le declare and will expresse thy truth and saving health I le keep not close thy loving minde that no one should it know Thy love which in the deeps I finde to all the Church I le show Yea good to me that was at Sea his Mercies did exceed Lo all thy works do praise the Lord and to thy honor spread Thy Saints do blesse thee and they do thy Kingdoms glory show And blaze thy praise to cause the sons of men their power to know God is the Lord by whom alone Salvation cometh plain He is my God by whom I scapt all danger death and pain As God hath given power to me so Lord make firm and sure The work that thou hast wrought on me for ever to endure Vntil the day of Iudgment comes and I am call'd to rest With all thy holy company of Saints and Angels blest To praise the Lord Omnipotent triumphantly each houre To him be all dominion and praise for evermore FINIS