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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31459	The life and death of that holy and reverend man of God, Mr. Thomas Cawton ... with severall of his speeches and letters, while in exile, for his loyalty to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty : to which is annexed a sermon preach'd by him at Mercers Chappel, Febr. 25. 1648 ... : published with the approbation of several of his brethren, ministers of the Word in London.	Cawton, Thomas, 1637-1677.	1662 (1662)	Wing C1653; ESTC R36292	43,772	96

door for thy Husband and hath not shut him up in the Tower from whence no redemption but upon sad tearms which would have been worse than death Remember what I preached troubled on every side yet not distressed God hath troubled thee and me on every side yet hitherto we never were so distressed as that there was not some way to escape My heart cannot express its love to thee much less my Pen be assured I shall be the same I ever was when God shall bring us together it will be a resurrection from the dead what shall I say I shall now leave thee but not lose thee and when I leave thee thou hast one that wil never leave thee nor forsake thee my heart will be with thee wheresoever my body shall be Speak to all my dear friends that they would pray for me more than ever that I may not fall into the hands of unreasonable men and that God would make my way plain before me and that he who is the God of the Sea and dry land would bring me to my desired Haven What can I say more unto thee but the Lord bless thee and make his face to shine upon thee the Lord fill thy heart with joy and gladness by believing be of good cheer my sweet soul it 's better thy Husband should be taken from thee than not be Learn to walk without such a poor arm of flesh remember how long thou hast enjoyed me beyond expectation My serious blessing to my poor babes I shall pray for all o● them Farewell my dearly beloved in the Lord Farewell The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with thee Amen Amen Thy sincere cordiall and truly loving Husband Presently after the writing of these Letters in which above all things I cannot but take notice of his humility and vile esteem of himself he made preparation for his voyage and secretly departed by shipping to Rotterdam from whence he and Mr. Nalton went to the University of Leiden intending to sit down a while there till the storm in England was blown over yet Gods providence so ordered it that though they came somthing under a disguise yet they were quickly known and speedily messengers were sent from the English Congregation at Rotterdam to find them out and bring them thither the place being at that very time by Gods providence destitute of a Minister The English Messengers found them out at Leiden and saluted them with the speech of the Macedonian man come and help us They did not a little wonder how they should be known to be Ministers seeing they kept themselves so private and were not at all to be discerned by their garb But turning their admiration into adoration they praised God for the door he had opened to let them into their former imployment and went a long with the messengers better messengers than those that brought the warrant to Rotterdam where they were joyfully entertained by the English particularly by Mr. Harris and Mr. Shepheard and were received into Mr. Shepheard's house The Sabbath-day came wherein Mr. Cawton preached in the forenoon and Mr. Nalton in the Afternoon with general approbation thus these Prophets were not without honour save in their own Country and though they of whom their Country was not worthey were counted unworthy their Country yet he that honours them which honour him counted them worthy of double honour and gave them that in a strange land which their own Land did not afford No sooner had Nimrod that mighty hunter chased these lambs out of their Native Land but he and his creatures sent Mr. Love out of his earthly into an heavenly country by beheading that faithfull Antipas for his love and Loyalty to his Majesty's service to the dishonour of Religion and grief of Gods People all over the Nation and especially of his two banished Brethren They continued Preachers at Rotterdam and though they were generally beloved and respected yet they met with much opposition from some of the Independent party and had many disputes with them to good purpose in so much that being vanquished they vanished and never appeared after to molest them o● the English Church which before was Independent but now was brought off and remains so to this day Mr. Cawtons wife followed her Husband with some of her Children and safely came to him at Rotterdam where they most joyfully met together and remained Mr. Nalton having staid about half a year there had leave to come home again and so returned into England No pardon for Mr. Cawton that had abused former pardon but upon base and unworthy tearms which kept him where he was alone to supply the place of Minister to the English Congregation That which he most rejoyced at was that he was out of the reach of Temptations he would say it 's a blessed thing for those that have not strong grace to be out of Temptations for Temptations may make great alterations He did not at all hanker after his Native Country but was weaned from it to admiration when his Wife spake of coming to England he would say it may be God will call me to exercise more and greater resolution and sincerity than ever I have he did exactly verifie that which a Reverend Minister of London said in a letter to him a Godly man is a Plant will thrive in any soil any place is a Country to him who makes no place here below his Country but as a Pilgrim and stranger seeks a better Country that is an heavenly He that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Citizen of Heaven is a Citizen of any place on Earth it 's all one to him where he is He ●ook extraordinary pains in preaching to his Congregation twice every Lords day and spent himself infinitely by reason of the want of help there being few or none that could preach in the English tongue yet he persisted though he were not assisted by any but Gods alsufficient assistance by which he was able to say often when I am weak then am I strong I have laboured yet not I. And thus I have traced the severall passages and parts of this Man of God's life give me leave Reader to leave him a while at Rotterdam and to give thee a view of some things observable that were common to every place he was in I shall reduce them to the common place of his Relations as a Minister a Master an Husband and a Father these heads will take in what ever I shall speak in reference to his severall Relations which being dispatched I shall return to ● further description of his life in Holland First then as a Minister he knew there w●● onus as well as honos ministerii the work a● well as the worth the duty as well as the dignity of the ministry and therefore h● did not so much desire praeesse as prodesse to be esteemed chief as to be profitable I nee● not give any more

remarkable that it deserves to be registred in Marble if that be durable enough to perpetuate so famous an amendment of so profane a generation of drunkards swearers and Sabbath-breakers that an Aegypt for darkness and ignorance should be turned into a Goshen of light and knowledge a Bethaven changed into a Bethel deserves to be written in immotall Records One thing for which he was noted in that place was his zeal in preaching against Sectaries and their hereticall tenets which ●s one speaks though Paul never planted ●r Apollos ever watered to be sure God ●ver blessed them yet grew a pace in all ●●rners of the land he did so solidly and ●●nvincingly confute them that he kept his ●●rish almost free from them when other ●●owns were mightily infested and infected with the Sectarian insect He gave clear evidence of what I said before that 〈◊〉 sucked in none of John Goodwins prin●●ples though he were his Pupil He often preached at Colchester for Reve●●nd Mr. Robert Harmar where there was ●●nest of Sectaries but he feared neither ●●gh nor low Once having preached up●● that Text If God be God serve him Baal be God serve him the Anabaptists●●reatned ●●reatned him on the Road to pull him off ●●om his horse as he was riding home but ●●at God hindered them He had many ●●sputes and private conferrences with them ●●fore he preached so much against them ●●d found many of them very ignorant as catechistical principles they were per●●aded before they were instructed and ●●refore they would not be perswaded to be ●●structed for as Tertullian speaks Here●●ks persuadendo docent non docendo persua●●nt they teach by perswading but do ●●t perswade by teaching they wooe and ●●tice the affections of their hearers without ●●nvincing their judgments No man was ever more beloved of his people than he was all sorts rich and poor did manifest a great deal of respect and affection to him the very children were s● taken with his winning way of catechizing them that they loved him and their catechism the better for it a great many of them would every Sabbath day go together to meet him between his house an● the Church shewing their readiness to be catechized by him Thus he that at fir● was counted so severe was esteemed worthy of all love and honour and that not only amongst the good but the bad such a Majesty there is in grace and such amiableness there is in holiness This their love was not ill bestowed the● was none of it lost there being an arde● love in his brest to them again in so much that he would often say Wivenho was h● first love He hath this character given 〈◊〉 him by all that knew him that he was very much unconcerned in the world he was convinced that all the world ca● afford was either uncertainly good or certainly evil and therefore he could not s● his heart on that which was to be trampled under his feet he counted the mouth and bellies of the poor the best treasurie to store up his goods in All the profits ● his living for three years together being about an hundred pounds per annum h● laid out upon the Personage house which was old and ready to drop down he built it with brick from the ground a very good house with Orchards of his own planting and fish-ponds made at his own charge and was often heard to say that it might please God this might be an inducement to some godly Preacher or other to come amongst his people when he was dead and rotten he cared not for his mony so much as for his people and was of so publick a spirit that he made all his private conveniencies give way to that way that did most promote his peoples publick welfare he was not content to do them all the good he could while with them but was sollicitous that one might succeed him who might be faithfull to their Souls when he was forced to leave the living he was offered an hundred pounds to resign the Living and Personage-house but would not but provided them a Minister who was presented by the Patron and let the house go to the Minister and all that succeeded him as long as it stands Having finished the house and enjoying some content in seeing his spirituall children walking in the truth God inclined his heart to Marriage which was after the thirtyeth year of his life and he gave God leave to choose his Wife for I count that giving leave to choose for us when we choose for God or in order to Gods glory more than for our own profit when that side God is on carries it in our choice he wa● offered many great matches but none s● good as that which he pitched upon which was Mrs Elizabeth Jenkin daughter to the Reverend Mr. William Jenkin a renowne● Preacher in Sudbury and Grand-child t● the famous Mr. Richard Rogers of Wether field He preferred the stock she came of her religious education parts and eminent piety before a great portion which h● might have had with others he thought good portion far above a great portion Being married he returned again to h● charge of Souls in Wivenho where he we●● on in his Ministeriall function with mu●● delight and as much dilligence on Lord days he preached with a great deal of v●gour and life and on week-days his li●● was a continued Lecture and commentary on his Sabbath Sermons he went 〈◊〉 and down doing good and did not thing all his work was to be done in the Pulpit but discharged his conscience and tr●● with much fidelity visiting the sick admonishing the wicked strengthning the wea●● quickning the strong and counselling a●● Thus this holy man of God continue among them for the space of seven years during which time he was very sickly a●● not likely to live long being naturally an infirm constitution the badness of the air at Wivenho did not a little add to his distempers At the end of the seventh year of his abode in Wivenho he had a very great fit of sickness in so much that his Physitians and friends did even despair of his recovery but it pleased the great Physitian who was his Maker as he had built the cottage of his body so to shoar up the building and he was in some measure restored to health whereupon the advice of his Physicians was he should change the air and get out of that could waterish place he was in and the more because he constantly was troubled with an ague twice a year at least London was the place which was thought might best agree with his thin body a great many arguments were used by his friends to perswade him to leave Wivenho but none could prevail but that of necessity by reason of the intire love he bore to his people and the great blessing he saw God gave to his Ministry in that place Necessity urging him more and more to look after his health he