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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	5,039	5	6.1083	4	false

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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

that your Father and Mother both shall be so carefull of you that you shall have all the encouragements we are able to give you even to our uttermost that you may proceed cheerfully and with courage in your studies do all that is of good report want nothing Have a care of your health and use some Schollar-like exercise that will stand without loss of time read note write meditate pray much lose not the least inches of time The reason I press you to so many things is that when you are dulled with one you may refresh your self with another variety will fallere taedium in the course of your studies Your mother and my self send you our blessing counting it our only blessing here to see our children walking in the truth that good man old Dr. Voetius will endeavour to season your heart in the matter of religion without which learning is but a sword in a mad mans hand Christ Jesus dwell in your heart and keep you and open your understanding to understand the Scripture I have nothing else but to believe that God will make you an instrument of his glory and our comfort to his grace I commend you and rest Your Loving Father THO. CAWTON Having setled his Son at Vtrecht it pleased God to give him another son which was his third child in Holland and the last he had He named him Gershom for be said I have been a stranger in a strange Land and devoted him like another Samuel to the Lord and the Ministry from his cradle but Gods providence hath taken him away from us to be a companion to his Father in glory as well as in sufferings A little after in the year 1658. the Kings Majesty being at Bruxells and calumniated as being a Papist his Majesty was pleased to send a Letter to Mr. Cawton testifying his constancy in the Protestant religion and desiring him to wipe off that unjust aspersion by satisfying all of his stedfastness in that religion the Letter was printed a little before his Majesties return to this Kingdom to clear him then and deserves here to be inserted it is this CHARLES R. TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well we have received so full a testimony from persons to whom we give intire credit of your good affection to our Person and zeal to our service that we are willing to recommend an affair to you in which we are very much concerned We do not wonder that the malice of our enimies should continue to lay all manner of scandals upon us which might take away our reputation but that they should find credit with any to make our affection to the Protestant religion in any degree suspected is very strange since the world cannot but take notice of our constant and uninterrupted profession and exercise of it in those places where the contrary Religion is only practised and allowed And though we do not boast of doing that which we should be heartily ashamed if we did not do we may reasonably believe that no man hath or can more manifest his affection to and zeal for the Protestant Religion than we have done or in some respects hath more suffered for it And therefore we are the more sensibly affected that those calumnies can make impression to our disadvantage in the minds of honest and pious men as we are informed they have done And we do the rather impart the sense we have of our suffering in this particular to you because as you have the charge of the English Congregation in Rotterdam so you cannot but have much conversation and acquaintance with the Ministers of the Dutch Church and others in that populous place with whom we would not suffer under so unjust and scandalous an imputation And we presume and axpect from you that you will use your utmost diligence and dexterity to root out those unworthy aspersions so maliciously and groundlesly laid upon us by wicked men and that you assure all who will give credit to you that we value our self so much upon that part of our Title of being Defendor of the faith that no worldly temptations can ever prevail with us to swerve from it and the Protestant Religion in which we have been bred the propagation whereof we shall endeavour with our utmost power And as we shall never fail in the performance of our duty herein so we shall take the offices you shall do in vindicating us from these reproaches very well from you In which we promise our self you will serve us effectually And so we bid you farewell Given at our Court at Bruxels the seventh day of November in the tenth year of our Reign By his Majesty's command EDWARD NICOLAS The Latine Translation of this Letter was sent at the same time from the King which for brevities sake I omit The last half year he was taken notice of to look better and some said fatter in the face than ever before insomuch that many of his friends were not a little deceived the truth is he himself found himself better than ever yet did many times cast out speeches as if he could not live long The last Sabbath he ever preached was the third of August 1659. that day he administred the Sacrament of the Lords Supper with his wonted heavenliness and preached forenoon and afternoon with as much zeal as ever he was known to do his Text was that of our Saviour to his Disciples Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you shewing that the usual means whereby men are made clean was the preaching of the Gospel the Word which I have spoken non quia dicitur sed quia creditur not because it 's spoken but because it 's believed the Word is the Instrument by which men believe and believing they are made clean He made two excellent Sermons on those words and if he had known he should have concluded his Ministry that day he could not me thinks have chosen a fitter Text to conclude withall Now ye are clean now ye have heard me preach so often now ye are so diligent and attentive to what I preach now I shall preach no more now ye are clean though the word believed embraced and accompanied with Gods Spirit at least now I am clean and clear from your blood I have Spoken unto you and my words will judge you at the last day if you will not hear the privledge you have had above others to hear will aggravate your sin and punishment These were the last words of this man of God to his people and I question not but they have taken some impression on their hearts Having spent himself much with preaching and being wearied by the great pains he had taken that day after the afternoon Sermon according to his usual manner he laid himself down upon his bed to rest and repose himself a little after he had slumbred about half an hour he awaked and having some warm thing