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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

M ris COOKES MEDITATIONS Being an humble thanksgiving to her HEAVENLY FATHER For granting her a new life having concluded 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 CORKE Printed And reprinted at London by C. S. and are to be sold by Thomas Brewster and Gregory Mould at the three Bibles at the West-end of Pauls M ris COOKES MEDITATIONS BEING An humble thanksgiving to her Heavenly Father for granting her a new life having concluded her selfe dead and her grave made in the bottome of the Sea HAving solemnly promised to the most high God in the grea● storme that if his Majesty would be pleased to prolong my dayes and deliver me from so great a danger I would studie to prayse and glorifie his Name all the dayes of my life and call upon others that were in the storme so to doe if I shall neglect so to do these broken Meditations may be an evidence against me written suddenly after my comming to Corke Psal 118.17 verse I shall not dye but live and declare the works of the Lord 66. Psal 16. Come and heare all yee that feare God and I will declare what he hath done for my soule 19. verse I cryed unto him with my mouth and he was extolled with my tongue Psal 56.12 thy vowes are upon me oh God! I will render prayse unto thee for thou hast made a path in the great waters for thy redeemed to passe through and hast brought thy ransomed ones safe to land therefore blesse the Lord oh my soule and forget not such mercies who hast forgiven all mine iniquities and saved my life from so great a danger oh that I could spend this new life wholly in thy service and that I might live to the prayse and glory of his grace wherein he hath made me accepted in his beloved Eph. 2.6 v. Landing in Kinsale I said am I alive or dead Doth not the ground mov● under mee I have been dying all this storme and I cannot tell whether I am yet alive I finding my body much out of frame and my heart fainting having been ten dayes at sea without eating but the next day the Lord made mee more sensible of my new life and when I came to dive into the mighty depth of the love of God in granting mee deliverance from so great a danger my heart was so brim-full with the apprehension of his tender mercies that I could not containe my selfe but must needs burst forth in teares for feare I should not live sutable to so great a mercy and I said to my friends that I would gladly be with my Saviour if it pleased him to take mee for the mercy I received was so great that I should never be able to walk answerably in holinesse to the Lord and my care is that I might not be found a fruitlesse figtree in the garden of my God when Christ said I am come into my garden my sister my spouse it was but to gather fruit but when he expected fruit and found none he was displeased I know it is a great mercy to blesse God for mercies and they which have a heart to bless God for mercies ought to have a tongue to prayse him for the same and a pen to record them we being too prone to let them slip out of our memories which if I shall do I desire my hand may be brought to testifie against me my heart and tongue shall not only prayse him but with my pen also will I stirre up my self and intreat all others that were in the same storme partakers with me of the same deliverance to magnifie the Lord for ever Oh ye couragious Sea-men that said you were at your wits end and knew not what would become of you prayse ye the Lord O ye that came into the great Cabbin to dye with us blesse his name for ever O ye that said you would give all you had to be landed even in your enemies Quarters that you might fight for your lives prayse him that is Lord of the Sea that now we see the faces of our friends in peace and can joyfully meet together to keep dayes of thanksgiving to the Lord. Jesus Christ took speciall notice of the Lepers Luke 17.15 16. verses but one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back and with a loud voyce glorified God and fell downe on his face at his feet giving him thanks but Jesus said were there not ten clensed but where are the nine It is all Christ requires of a Saint to be praised for deliverances as he saith Psal 50.15 Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee but thou shalt glorifie mee But no soule can glorifie and praise God but those whose hearts He hath wound up and tuned to such a spirituall note because they are birds which fly high upon the wing of faith and may have place to sit and sing neer the altar of God and those that are thus admitted into the holy of holyes to sing Hallelujab's to the Name of the most high God and to the Lambe are the spirits of just men made perfect already in heaven and those who are kept through the power of God by faith 1 Pet. 1.5 while they are in the world untill they come to be made one with the Father and the Son when this mortality shall be swallowed up of life and we crowned with an incorruptible crowne of glory and come to be made perfectly glorious through Christ and perfectly holy then shall we be fit to come into the presence of our God and behold his glory and admire him who is the King of Saints and then shall we worship and sing everlasting prayse to the Lord God Almighty who is great and marvellous in all his workes and just and true in all his wayes Thus to prayse God is the worke of Angells which they doe and shall doe to all eternity who are glorious creatures without sinne which are set apart onely for the worke of praysing God Oh the disproportion betwixt Men and Angells And yet God requires and looks for prayse from men as well as from Angells But Lord who is sufficient for these things who is worthy to undertake the worke of Angells whose spirits are thus ascended up on high to make an Evangelicall harmony in the eares of so holy a God whose hearts are fitted and tuned to sing everlasting prayses and Hallelujah's to the mighty Lord God of mercies to our soules redeeming mercies justifying mercies temporall deliverances God requires prayse of every one that he workes deliverance for whether spirituall or temporall He that eateth after ten dayes fasting let him give thanks yee that have escaped the rocks remember the Lord. Ye whom God hath kept from sinking and perishing in the deepe waters praise him Ye which are living monuments of his late mercy and have been

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