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spirit_n	father_n	son_n	world_n	9,611	5	4.8989	4	false

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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

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