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A23653	The captive taken from the strong or a true relation of the gratious release of Mistrisse Deborah Huish (by the arm of the Almighty) from under the power of the Tempter, by whose firy conflicts she had been sorely vexed for about fourteen years / as it was faithfully written from her own mouth by William Allen ...	Allen, William, Adjutant-general of the army in Ireland.	1658 (1658)	Wing A1051; ESTC R32702	51,203	149

have continued under such assaults eversince more or less till the time hereafter specified when the Lord of his free Mercy began to make way for my escape I do also remember that I had not onely despising slighting thoughts of God but also of his people calling them in my thoughts though not with my lips lyars But when I did think I consented to such thoughts then horrour would seize upon me even to overwhelme me and in this condition I remained till my going into Ireland which was about June 1654. After my coming there the Lord visited me with the Small-pox and in that time of sicknesse I thought I had some refreshment from the Lord by consulting his word but was suddenly after assaulted with more and worse blasphemous thoughts then ever before and then did verily believe I was possessed with the Devil and did think I talked with him and heard him say that God loved to torment and bring misery upon his Creatures which thoughts were so pressing upon me that I was ready to wish the destruction of the Almighty and did to my thinking hate him crying out in the hearing of many I am undone to Eternity and so remaineth till lately And so dreadful were these last mentioned thoughts to my soul that from that time I concluded I had committed the sin against the holy Ghost which before I did onely think I had but now was confirmed in it and began to think I had really trampled under foot the blood of Jesus Christ and had done despite to the Spirit of grace and thence concluded that nothing now remained but a fearful looking for of vengeance that should devour the Adversary and this put me into unexpressible torments night and day thinking the Devil would come and fetch me away and I believed I was certain of it and when any went to pray for me I thought that hastened my destruction and therefore I hated them for it and had in my mind many sad wishes as to those that prayed for me counting Hell my portion and that I should by such means be sooner cut off and that they sin'd in praying I having sin'd against the holy Ghost thought they ought to hate me but not pray for me I did also think I alwayes heard a fearful sound in my ears especially when it was windy or rainy weather and then thought I should be cast into Hell presently which made an unexpressable torment of mine to think of it and yet under all the means used to seek God for me I found no benefit But at Dublin when dayes were set apart to seek God for me I dreaded those dayes above all other thinking verily that God was ingaged in honour to come out against me in fierce indignation as also against such as sought him on my behalf and I did many times think the Lord in a way of judgement would turn me into some filthy hateful Monster or other as a Memorial of his just displeasure against me and all the time that prayers were put up for me which was very frequent in Dublin as also discourses very often with me I could not perceive that any ever took the least hold on my heart but still I had that Scripture oft on my thoughts (a) Psal 65.5 By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer them which I understood to be some answer in a way of judgement as to me I had also that Scripture much on my heart (b) Matth. 12.31 32. He that sins against the holy Ghost shall never be forgiven in this world nor in that which is to come And as to reading the Scriptures my heart was much averse to it oneiy sometimes out of compassion to others I did read and sometimes did mind them what the casting off the Scriptures had cost me who is now rejected for ever wishing them to take heed of the like but it was very seldome that I did this and long ere I could bring my heart to it I do also remember when I lived at Clantarfe in Ireland and used to go to Dublin sometimes to hear the word I have often thought when I went I should be destroyed ere I came back again and when I did hear I strove all I could to forget what I heard or read having my expectations of Hell so heightened by all such means that I could not endure it would have given any thing I might never have gone to have heard or prayed more it did so increase the torments of my soul And when I came into the place where I used to hear I st●ll expected to hear some sudden voice from Heaven declaring my destruction and did think many times that the wind arose just as I came to that place to hear and did believe the Lord must needs appear in judgement against me for coming and sitting as one of his people among them whom I in my heart hated and would long that the duties might be ended that I might be free from those feares that were upon me while there I do also remember that almost every thing did afright me either a cloudy day the Sun or Moon Eclipsed or the Suns rising red in a morning or the wind blowing high All these I thought were signes of my destruction that I did believe the Lord would execute upon me for my hatred against him and his wayes And indeed such an inveterate hate I had against him that I judged I loathed and abhorred the doing good to any saying in my self that the Lord would damn and destroy me and why should I do any good I also wished many times I had never been born or had never had eyes to see or ears to hear or else had been made the most contemptible Creature in the world because when they die there is an end of them but when I die my mis●ry then begins I also wished I might ●●ever hear any one speak more from the Scriptures to me for I reckoned all that had spoken to me either in sicknesse or in health would be witnesses against me and so aggravate my sin and misery because I had such warnings and had not harkened to them but to the Devil and especially Mr. Patient a Minister of the word in Dublin coming to me in the time of my sicknesse and speaking of the great danger of an impenitent state if the Lord should cut the thrid of life that such persons would drop immediately into Hell the which he endeavoured to demonstrate to me that I thought he would be the principal witnesse against me of all that had spoke with me so that I now saw my self without hope and the mercy of the Lord utterly taken from me not as it was from Saul but far worse I having sinned against far greater light and more warnings and after such tasts and enlightnings to fall away it was impossible to renew me again unto repentance but concluded I should suddainly be destroyed and that without remedy This being my case I

THE CAPTIVE Taken from the STRONG OR A true Relation of the gratious release of Mistrisse Deborah Huish by the Arm of the Almighty from under the Power of the Tempter by whose firy Conflicts she had been sorely vexed for about fourteen years as it was Faithfully written from her own mouth BY WILLIAM ALLEN Late Adjutant-General in Ireland He brought me up also out of an horrible Pit out of the miry Clay and set my feet upon a Rock and established my goings And he hath put a new Song in my mouth even praise unto our God Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord. Psal 40.2 3. I will never forget thy Precepts for with them thou hast quickened me Psal 119.93 London Printed for Livewel Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1658. To the Christian READER READER THou hast here a true Narrative of the various and wonderful dealings of the Lord with this his poor Hand-maid now made rich in Faith through grace after fourteen years exercise under great horrour and soul-dismaying distresse as it was taken from her own mouth at several times by my self since the Lord by his grace inlarged her heart causing her thus to speak to his praise The matter herein contained needs not Epistles of commendation at least from one so weak and unworthy as my self who to my grief and shame may say have not yet attained to the least part of this rich portion the Lord hath bless'd her soul with And indeed the whole is an Epistle that may be seen and read by all discerning Christians to have been written on her heart by the Spirit of the living God which I hope will more commend it to every gracious soul then any thing from man can do though when I call to mind the deep distresses of soul I have known her in for some years pass'd with the gratious deliverance the Lord hath now wrought for her agreeable to that pray'd for in Psal 126.4 O Turn again our captivity O Lord as the streams in the south and fulfilling that pretious promise in the 5. and 6. verses of that Psal They that sow in tears shall reap in joy c. I may truely say I am in my own thoughts as to the gratious surprizing nature of this special mercy even as one that dreams Reader be not offended at the homely dresse this comes forth in either as to often repetitions of the same things with little variation the want of Oratory eloquence or what else the wisedom of this world calls ornament this being intended chiefly for the use of those that little mind such things it was judged it 's own natural simple Attire would best become it Besides this gratious soul since her rescue out of Satans power hath been under very frequent and renewed assaults from him who hath set upon her often with the same temptation and the Lord hath taught her to use the same Weapons he gave her at the first with great successe to oppose him at those several times which were thought necessary to be set down accordingly as appears more particularly in the insuing Narrative That so the Devil 's restlesse malice to disturbe and destroy and the Lord's continued faithfulnesse to succour and deliver might the better be observed But if it be substance thou seekest and that will satisfie I dare be bold to say thou wilt here find it yea rich treasure though in a poor earthen Vessel which will render the praise of this pretious mercy more properly due to God unto whom alone it belongs She was when she declared these things much in that frame of Spirit mentioned in 1 Cor. 2.3 In weaknesse in fear and in much trembling And her speech though plain and mean thou wilt find in some measure answering that in the fourth verse of that second Chapter viz. in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power And of whom I may further say she delights not to make a fair shew in the flesh but rather to be found glorying onely in the cross of Christ Jesus by which the world is crucified unto her and she much crucified unto the world The ends of Publishing this Narrative next to giving the glory of this mercy to the Lord to whom alone it is due are first to warn sinners especially such as make a mock at sin as in Prov. 14.9 to take heed how they make light of that which the Lord can and frequently doth make so weighty when he binds it on the conscience of the sinner as in the insuing Narrative more at large appears which I desire such may with fear and trembling read and consider well If God did so deal with this green Tree what then may be expected he will do to the drie ones that so if possible such might be stopped in their Carreer in wayes of sin and Ruine and caused to return by this poor souls sad experience who having indeed known the terrours of the Lord doth declare them to that end that she may perswade men But secondly and more especially that poor drooping disconsolate discouraged souls who are or may be ready to faint under the weight of their Iniquities and just displeasure of the Lord discovered against them who by reason thereof may be ready to say as in Lament 3.18 That their strength and hope is perished from the Lord and as in Isai 49.14 That the Lord hath forsaken them might hereby be succored supported and incouraged to look towards the Lord and the strength and length of those everlasting Armes mentioned in Deut. 33.27 Which may be underneath when not discerned as in this poor souls case they were encompassing and upholding though not comforting her when she expected nothing but the stretching them out to her eternal ruine In her fourteen years dangerous Voyage through such a tempestuous troubled Sea when all that time as it were neither Sun Moon nor Stars appeared and her soul with continual Billows going over it was sorely afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted yet he whose way is in the waters and his footsteps in the great deeps was then with her as in Isai 43.2 when thou passest thorow the waters I will be with thee c. Checking the proud Waves and as is said Job 38.11.8 Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be staid and his thoughts towards her even all this time as in Jer. 29.11 Thoughts of peace and not of evil c. and doubtlesse shall also in due time appear to be the same towards all his poor tossed troubled ones who for the present may walk in darknesse and see no light as in Isai 50.10 and yet he that hath promis'd to bring the blind by a way that they know not as in Isa 42.16 is leading them in the return in that path mentioned Jer. 31.9 They shall come with weeping and with supplications will I lead them c. And surely such shall have cause in the end with