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A89733	Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, The life & death of that deservedly famous man of God, Mr John Cotton, late teacher of the church of Christ, at Boston in New-England. By John Norton, teacher of the same church.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing N1313; Thomason E937_6; ESTC R207763	38,553	57

Abel being Dead yet speaketh OR THE LIFE DEATH Of that deservedly Famous Man of GOD Mr John Cotton Late TEACHER of the Church of CHRIST at BOSTON in NEW-ENGLAND By JOHN NORTON Teacher of the same Church Heb. 13. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at his Shop next the Castle-Tavern in Cornhill 1658. The Life and Death OF Mr JOHN COTTON The late Reverend Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in NEVY-ENGLAND IT is the priviledg of the blessed who lived in Heaven whilst they lived on Earth That they may live on Earth whilst they live in Heaven And 't is a part of the Portion of the Saints that together with the benefit of the living they may enjoy both the life and death of those who both lived and dyed in the 1 Cor. 3. 22. Hebr. 11. 4. Faith Life and Death are yours By Faith Abel being dead many thousand years since yet speaketh and will speak whil'st time shall be no more That the living speak is no wonder but that the dead speak is more then miraculous This though it be enough to draw forth attention from the sons of men Who is not affected with miracles yet being influenced with a Divine and special Benediction for the memorial of the Just is blessed To suppress an Instrument of so much good with silence were not only unthankfulness to the dead but an injury to the generation present and to many an one that is to come To preserve the memory of the blessed with the Spices and sweet Odors of their Excellencies and Weldoing recorded to posterity is a super Aegyptian embalming and a service which many reasons perswade unto This we do as men glad to rescue and solicitous to preserve any excellency in the Sons of mortality that may out-live Death desire of continuance in being is in it self inseperable from being Dumb Pictures of deserving men answer not ingenuous minds capable to retain the memorial of vertue the real effigies of their Spirits Besides unhappy Emulation happily expiring with the life of the emulated We greedily own and enjoy such Worthies when they are not whom envy in a great Degree bereaved us of whilst they were This we do as Friends hence the Smyrnean Poet of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nam is demum est amicus qui etiam extincti memoriam servat ejusque causâ dolet licet non amplius superstes sit Heb. 11. 36. He is a true friend who continueth the memory of his deceased Friend And this is done not only in love to them but also in love to our selves thereby easing in part our loss and saving so much of our own lives He may the better be heard who reckoned his Friend the one half of himself when Moses intimates a Friend to be as our own Soul whilst Calvin lives Beza's life is sweet when Calvin dyes death is the more acceptable unto Beza This we do as Christians The Deeds of those worthies was the subject matter of the speech of the Saints these all obtained a good Report A considerable part of the Scripture is a divine testimony of what the Faithful have done and suffered recorded unto succeeding Generations not only as a memorial of them but as so many practical demonstrations of the Faithfulness of God as so many full and glorious triumphs over the World Sin and Satan obtained by persons in like temptations and subject to like passions with our selves A quickning motive unto such who have understanding of the times not to pretermit those testimonies the signal presence of God in whom manifests them to have been fore-appointed for the further compleating of that Cloud of Witnesses which elevates the Beholders thereof to lay aside every weight that doth so easily beset us and with the same spirit to run the race that is set before us The Mystery of God concerning all the transactions of his eternal purpose upon the Theatre of this World throughout the whole time of time being fully accomplished and revealed that of Jesus Christ himself excepted in none of all the work which he hath gloriously done will he be admired so much in that day as in what he hath wrought in the lives and deaths of Beleevers as Beleevers The same object is as admirable now as then that it is not so much admired is because it is not seen now so much as it shall be then The greatest Object out of Heaven is the life and death of such upon Earth who are now in Heaven You may beleeve it what God hath done for the Soul of the least Saint of some few years continuance were it digested into Order would make a volume full of temptations signes and wonders A wonderful History because a History of such experiences each one whereof is more then a Wonder No greater acts then their obedience both Active and Passive unto the death The sufferings of the Apostles may well be reckoned amongst the Acts of the Apostles No greater Monuments then their Register To live and die in the Faith of Jesus to do things worthy to be written and to write things worthy to be done both is good and doth good 'T is better with William Hunter then with William the Conqueror 'T is better to have a name in the Book of Martyrs then in the Book of Chronicles Martial Conquerors conquer Bodies by destroying Confessors conquer Souls by saveing They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony and loved not their lives unto the death Amongst these as the Age that now is through Grace hath abounded with many worthies so This Eminent Servant of God the subject of our present meditation may without wrong unto any be placed amongst the first Three Had it pleased the only wise God to have put it into his heart to have imitated Junius in leaving behind him the History of his own Life how many would have gladly received it as Elisha did the Mantle which fell from Elijah when he was caught up and carried from him into Heaven But Divine Providence otherwise disposing it remains that they who have known his doctrine manner of Life purpose Faith Long-suffering Love Patience Persecutions and affliction do not suffer such a Light to be hid under a Bushel but put it on a Candlestick that it may give light to them that are in the House His Birth-place Dorby we shall not detain the Reader at His birth though a Scituation in respect of the purity and frequent Agitation of the air attempered in the judgment of the Orator for the breeding of better Wits Creatures are in their kind subservient but t is God not the air who puts Wisdom into the inward parts and giveth understanding to the heart As the wise man and the Fool die so are