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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

his University to teach him more of God so the University was his adversity for teaching the waies of God for he was an early Champion for Holiness and could better bear the reproaches of men for his holiness than the wrath of God for his unholiness behaving himself so that none could speak truly and reproachfully of him at the same time He was naturally inclined to solitude and having through desire separated himself he intermedled with all wisdom he loved to withdraw and retire from the world giving himself much to meditation and prayer thinking he had studied well when he had prayed well in this solitude he entertained his Saviour and by his refreshing society was more and more in love with his solitary as I may say society he could say with Cyprian Solus non est cui Christus comes est he wants no company that hath Christ for his Companion and indeed though solitude ●e to some hatefull to others hurtfull yet ●e that knows not how to be alone knows not how to be in company with profit this ● know that the less wisdom a man has the more he complains of the want of company The society he conversed with was of those that were painful and pious he kept no company with bad company such as loved God were his friends such as would come together to pray and confer about religion and strengthen one anothers hands against profaneness and ungodliness such were his delight and with such he would be very familiar and open-hearted If there be a Dalilah under Heaven it is evill society this as one says will bind us betray us blind us and undo us but the Lord being mercifull to him preserved him blamless and spotless in the midst of a wicked generaton of Schollars his righteous soul being vexed for the unlawfull deeds of those amongst which he dwelt The stream of example was never strong enough to make him stirr along with it when a gale of custom would carry others with full sails to the port of endless and easless misery alienis perimus exemplis we mostly borrow our own ruine and perish upon credit non ad rationem sed ad similitudinem vivimus unde ista tanta coacer●atio aliorum super alios cadentium we more aim at being like others than like men that are rationall and thence we see what great heaps stumble one upon another but he took up no imployment followed no company but what he had the broad seal of Heaven to confirm and what the narrow way to Heaven did warrant as usefull to travel with up the hill to happiness As he was carefull of himself lest he should at any time fall into bad company so he was very desirous and laborious to keep others out of it and reclaim those that were inveigled in it Particular and especiall notice was taken of one thing for which he was eminent and exemplary which was this that when any young youths came to the University either from his own Country or else where such as he knew or was informed were well educated under godly Parents or a godly Ministry he would be sure to get acquaintance with them at their first coming to the University before they were ingaged intangled or infected with bad company and would bring them into the society of some pious Schollars of which he himself was he was so pious as to lead them from the snare and so prudent as to take them at their first coming shewing them the danger before they fell into it and thereby disingaging them from the company and acquaintance of vain and debauched Schollars of which that Colledge was then full and who were as so many Factors for the Devil venting the wares which that grand Malefactor had to sell to young Schollars severall there were in the Colledge at that time who drew away new-come Students from their books and studies to their ungodly company and so made them debauched like themselves they were not content to go to Hell alone but they must force others to go many miles in the broad way who of themselves would not have gone one yet though this might seem to discourage him to see what Merchandize was made of souls he conscienciously and constantly laboured to counterwork these Factors of Hel and drove a trade for God in bestirring himself to insinuate into any lad that was ingenious and was very succesfull therein to the astonishment and confusion of his opposers many had great cause to bless God for him and their first acquaintance with him for his bringing them to Dr. Prestons and Dr. Sibbs his Lectures in those times and some to the knowledge of a Reverend and learned Divine his intimate friend at the University from whom I have this part of the narrative that are yet alive have blessed God for their acquaintance with him this his unwearied diligence in trafficking for God in his younger years was so generally observed in the Colledge that it grew almost into a proverb among the lewd and profane Schollars that such and such a youth was poison'd by Cawton's faction and was become a Cawtonist which nevertheless could not in the least deterr him from prosecuting the work of the Lord or from abiding and abounding in it but rather rooted and grounded him especially when he considered his labour was not in vain in the Lord and that God did graciously let him see of the travell of his Soul in the welfare of those Souls which he had been a means to deliver from being taken captive at Satans will He remained faithful in this good imployment as also in following his private studies in the University till he took his degree of Master of Arts seldom absenting and having served an apprenticeship of seven years to humane learning he found it prov'd but a blear-ey'd Leah as an ingenious Author loves to speak and not so amiable as was expected therefore now he resolves to serve for Rachel that is Divinity which is more beautiful and quick-sighted In order to his study of Divinity he removed for a time from the University to a place called Ashwell twelve miles from Cambridge to live in the house of that Reverend and holy man of God Mr. Herbert Palmer then Minister of that place from whom as he himself would often say he reaped no small benefit in his first setting upon the study of Theology both Theoretical and Practical ●e followed his business closely and with much delight and which is most and best ●e studied Theological Truths with a Theological Heart and indeed they are divine affections and a divine conversation which make the Divine Impii quidam homines egregiè videntur callere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 revera tamen illa cognitio rerum Theologicarum est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia fieri non potest ut cognitio verè Theologica babitet in corde non Theologo Many wicked wretches seem to be excellently skil'd ●n Divinity but the truth is such

was at length brought to hearken after a place to serve Gods Church in at London and his intentions being made known he was quickly called to the Parish of Bartholomews behind the Royall Exchange the main instrument of his settlement in that living was Sir Harbottle Grimstone who at that time dwelt in the same Parish and was his exceeding good friend In London it pleased God he had his health farr better than at Wivenho and quite lost the ague he was used to have twice a year all the while he was there His health did not a little encourage him to his former painfulness in the work of the Ministry in which he now laboured more abundantly than ever he was more carefull of himself than ever knowing he had now more eyes observing him than ever and that the sins of Teachers were Teachers of sins he was well acquainted with the meaning of the Ceremony Lev. 8. 24. where Moses put the bloud on the lap of the Priests right ear on the thumb of their right hand and on the great toe of their right foot Ministers must hear work and walk right and therefore he dayly went out and in before his people as an ensample to the flock the very profane of the Parish would say they believed Mr. Cawton did really believe what he preached when they were ready to bark and snarl at others and say of them as one said of vicious Ministers that when they are in the Pulpit it 's pity they should ever come out they are so good in their Instructions when out of the Pulpit it 's pity they should ever come in again they are so bad in their conversations Having preached some time he began to resume his old Theme of opposing Heresies which crept in a pace into the Kingdom He proved a true Malleus Haereticorum and a ●lagellum errorum when he had preached so zealously against the Sectaries that his friends were afraid they would have dragg'd him out of the Pulpit he would say I am set for the defence of the Gospel and am resolved with Gods assistance to contend earnestly for the Faith In the year 1648. the February after King Charls the first of glorious memory was most inhumanly and unnaturally beheaded he was desired by the Mayor of the City then in being to Preach before him and his Brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercers Chappel on the 25. of that Month which he undertook and accordingly performed In his Prayer as he thought it his duty he prayed for our Legall Sovereign and the Royal Family In his Sermon he laid nothing before his Auditory but Gospel-truths but limiting of Souldiers too much as they thought to the Divine rule and shewing them how in their places they ought to adorn the Gospel which was a thing too precise for them that could violently do any thing he was much threatned by them swearing they would molest him as soon as he had done but God so restrained them that they were hindred in their design at that time he did in his Sermon glance at mens pretending an impulse of spirit and thinking the success of their cause was an evidence of its goodness and in severall expressions did much cross the sectaries and King-killers of that time I have added the heads of that Sermon as full as he writ them to this narrative hoping they will not be unwelcome to the world For that time he escaped the hands of unreasonable men or rather the paws of roaring Lions and raving Wolves but not long after having a fast at his own Church and he concluding the day there was a warrant procured by some malicious sectaries and Soldiers that had given information of what they had heard at Mercers Chappel stiling his preaching there seditious summoning him to appear before the Councill of State it might well be called a Councill of Estate for they consulted much together how to take away men estates if not lives when he had concluded the fast the warrant brought by some Red-coats was presented to him in the very Church so greedy they were of their prey the warrant ran thus These are to will and require you forthwith upon sight hereof to make speedy repair into any such place where you shall understand the Person of Mr. Thomas Cawton to be who preached before the Lord Mayor yesterday and him you are to apprehend and bring in safe custody before the Councill of State for seditious preaching hereof you are not to fail and for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at Derby House the twenty sixth day of February 1648. Signed in the name and by the Order of the Council of State appointed by Authority of Parliament Arthor Hesilrige President To Rowland Hawkard and Richard Freeman Messengers attending the Council of State and to all the rest of the Messengers attending the said Council A true Copy of a Warrant directed to me from the Council of State the 26. of February 1648. per me Row Hawkard Messenger This Warrant was issued out the very next day after his Sermon but came not to him till the second of March when he had looked on it he told them without any alteration in Countenance or mind he would go along with them only desired them to go with him to his house that he might take something to refresh himself having fasted all the day this they though unwillingly assented to and they were followed with whole multitudes of people which thronged about the house crying out against their unjust dealings to see him go with the Soldiers having refreshed himself and prayed he sent for a Coach and with unparallel courage and cheerfulness taking a friend or two with him went to the Councel of Estates though the Warrant was only for Seditious Preaching yet when he came before them they had nothing to lay to his charge but those words in his Prayer for our LEGAL SOVEREIGN and the ROYAL FAMILY He told them he came to answer for a seditious Sermon not for his Prayer according to their Warrant but they satisfyed him no other way than by telling him he had proclaimed the King and that was high treason according to an Act of their own making which made all loyalty Treason when they themselves were the Traytors Hereupon that compleat Hypocrite Oliver Cromwell did with extremity of indignity severity admonish and command him to recant of what he had said but Mr. Cawton no whit daunted by his proud insolent carriage was Mr. Cawton still semper idem and told him If I have done any thing not becoming a Minister of the Gospel I hope I should be willing to recant and that was all they could get from him which they taking as a contempt of their Authority made it an aggravation of his crime and ordered that he should be kept in safe custody that night Their Janizaries carried their Captive to the Irish harp in Kings-street Westminster and there kept him prisoner till