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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

their hearts than the correction it self He was often so moved with compassion his fatherly bowels did so yearn over them that the tears would trickle a pace from his eies when he was correcting them nothing ever wrought upon me like this sight which did plainly convince his Children of his unwillingness to chastise but that he was forced to it his tea●● did sink so deep into their hearts that the●●●ould not but be softened at least for that time for believe me to see ones Parents weep cannot but be a great grief to dutiful Children He had his Children in subjection with all gravity and yet I may say that never was Father so little feared as he because so much loved In a word he left his Children God for a Father when he left them and they count it no small priviledge that they can call God the God of their Father for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that kept the Fathers will keep the Children Thus I have given you a rude draught of this Man of God in his several relations in every one of which he was another Apelles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 approved in Christ a currant Christian as the Greek word signifies one accepted and allowed of as being not counterfeit but of the right stamp He was good in all his relations which is a character of a good man and which is much was never known to give offence to any To return from whence I digressed This Man of God had not been long at Rotterdam but his fame was spread abroad all over the united Provinces especially Holland He that valued Gods glory above his Name in his own Countrey received his own name in a strange and Gods glory in an heavenly Countrey He shone in that Firmament as a Star of the first magnitude and was highly esteemed of by the Dutch French and English Ministers round about He had correspondence with most of the famous Professors particularly with Dr. Gisbert Voetius Divinity Professor and Mr. Leusden Professor of the Oriental Languages at Vtrecht with Mr. Vchtman and Mr. Hulsius both Hebrew Professors the one of Leiden the other of Breda several Letters there passed between them some of which I have to shew From England he had whole showers of Letters from his Brethren the Ministers and his friends congratulating his safety and liberty to speak boldly in the name of Christ He was much honored and often written to by Dr. Walton was not a little useful in promoting the great work of the Polyglot Bible partly by procuring subscriptions partly by sending over Manuscripts He was afterwards written to by Dr. Castell whose Polyglot Lexicon got several Subscriptions by his means and by Mr. Samuel Clark concerning another Volume to be added to the Oriental Bible he was known to be of so publick a spirit in any thing that was for the profit of the Common-wealth of Learning and the good of Gods Church that he was sought to of most that did any singular matter in order to the encrease of learning Though Rotterdam were a place very waterish and could yet He took great notice of Gods great goodnesse in reference to his health which was better the five first yeares than ever it had bin in any place in his own Country It 's not an healthful climate but a good Physitian even the Lord that healeth us that makes us healthfull He would say I thank God I have preached twice a day every Lords day besides fast and thanksgiving days as also his monthly administration of the Sacrament for five years together and have not had five three was the most Sermons given me But the two or three last yeares he was weak and for half a year together went with a continuall pain at his stomack so that it was a very difficult thing for him to Preach yet he left not off but cheerfully and constantly preached as at other times though he never went up into the Pulpit but every one thought he would either faint or die before he came down he was indeed weary in his work but never weary of his work Once he did faint in the Pulpit insomuch that his voice failed him and he was taken down being unable to proceed but by the means of cordial Waters given him he recovered his Spirits in some measure yet not so as to Preach in the afternoon when his Friends came about him in the evening he told them the Pulpit is a good place to die in By the next Sabbath he was by Gods blessing recruited and preached forenoon and afternoon with much vigour and zeal but from that time till within half a year of his death I saw him evidently decay About this time he had an only Son almost fit for the University whom he did always but especially now much instruct and forward in his studies Mr. Robert Sheringham being then in exile at Rotterdam he sent his son to him to learn the Hebrew Syriack and Arabick tongues before he went to the Academy and would every morning call him to his bedside to expound a Greek or Hebrew chapter He spent much time in catechizing him in particular seasoning him with the knowledge of God and charging him to walk as in Gods sight when he was from under his Fathers eye The time coming he went with him to the University of Vtrecht and there bestowed him committing him to the care of Dr. Gisbertus Voetius and his son Mr. Daniel Voetius both Professors in that University and eminent for learning and piety He gave his son much good counsell and directions in his studies and was very desirous of his progress He would strive to enflame this young schollar's heart with an Heroick ambition to get learning and as he himself had done and would exhort him most affectionately to strive to be inter eruditissimos non inter mediocres He gave him these four rules which being observed were very effectuall to get learning and to keep it in readiness 1. To consider one's own parts and time and accordingly to order and dispose one's time 2. To be always doing constant in studies like Mr. Calvin who being asked why he was always at it returned this answer Dominus cum venerit inveniet me laborantem when the Lord comes he shall find me working 3. To review over things again and again this rule is so profitable that Al●●edius said all learning was contained in this one word REPETE this was famous Dr. Whitakers practise he read over his Grammar and logick once a year 4. To note in reading some specialls and many things to referr His Son thought good to communicate a Letter of advice written to him by his Father to me which because of the use it may have among young Students and to show his great care in training him up for the work of the Ministry I cannot but impart the Letter is as followeth out of his sons own copy Son Tho. I am glad to

instances of his unwearied labours in the vineyard of God or of his sincerity in his work dressing the Vine no● for the vintage but for his Master who h●● hired him to labour it will be superfluous t● tell you he was an experienced Preacher he felt what he spoke and then spoke what h● felt he was not overcurious in his words but used such as were very significant the paint of eloquence does but besmear and darken the pearl of the Gospel truth is most beautiful in its own dressings and is ashamed to see it self clad with the flanting and adulterous attire of eloquence yet He could say with the Father vellem mihi dari eloquentiam vel quia magis credunt homines veritati ornatae vel ut ipsi suis armis vincantur I like eloquence only because either men give more credit to truth in robes than to truth in rags or that they may be disarmed with their own arms Rhetorick is a flexanimous suada and causes often the matter with the words sweetly to slide in the hearts of the hearers But though he did love in veris verba yet he did in verbis vera amare non verba though he loved good words in expressing the truth yet he loved the truth expressed with good words not the words He could at his pleasure use eloquence but he could do more that is deny his eloquence and preach with more affection than affectation He used so much Art as rightly to divide not to rend the word of truth he preached not to shew his learning but that the ignorant might learn in a word he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Master of words but thought it better to be a Minister of the word and in his Ministry to omit his Mastry I need not tell you of his trials his whole life was but one continued series of Temptation He was given to prayer and mditation to which if you add his sufferings for a good conscience you may behold the character of a compleat Divine whose three notes according to Luther are Oratio Meditatio et Tentatio Prayer meditation and temptation But these are generals to descend to a few perticulars 1. He was an excellent Textuary well read in the sacred pages he was an Ark of Scripture and would often say that Sermon is no Sermon to me that is not full of rightly applied Scriptures his eloquence consisted in his being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 able or mighty in the Scriptures as it 's noted of Apollos he was an eloquent man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good at wording but it 's immediately added mighty in the Scriptures his good words were the sound words of the Holy leaves I believe if Apollos should come unknown and preach amongst the florid Orators of this age he would scarcely be accounted eloquent because he would coat too much Scripture and yet we see the Scripture puts ableness in Scripture and ableness in eloquence together nay Scripture language seems the only Divine eloquence and a Divine should be ashamed to speak without it This holy man of God so accustomed himself to the Scriptures that he never rose in a morning but the first thing he did was to take his Bible into his hand and so lifting up his eyes to heaven in a most serious manner he prayed shortly and then read some portion of Scripture or other which being observed by his loving Consort she asked him why he used that practise and he told her it was my custome ever since God made me a Minister Neither did he only delight in Gods law but was very clear and plain in expounding it also he could fit his discourses on it to every necessity and capacity but which was most he interpreted Scripture as one speaks in Solomons words with his feet and taught it with his fingers his walking and working were Scripture explications his life was a lively effigies and transcript of the word of life and he cast into the mould of it there was a sweet and harmonious concord and correspondence between the originall and the copy the Bible and his conversation 2. He was Minister as hath been declared in three Places Wivenho London and Rotterdam and in every one of these he preached ov●● the whole body of Divinity very methodically and exactly and though it were in different places yet he never preached one old Sermon but has left three bodies of Divinity on severall texts and differently handled behind him as witnesses of his laboriousnesse in his function nay all the while he was in Holland he never preached one old Sermon By going through a System of Theologie he laid a foundation for his People to build on and successively held forth one head after another all they were to believe or do In this Narrative I shall not shew the use of Systems only this I may affirm that such forms of sound words are the best provision a Pastor can lay in for his flock if he would have them sound and free from the contagion of Heresie on the one and profaneness on the other hand a body of Divinity is physick to souls and bodies of ignorant People these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 healthfull wholsome words do both preserve from sickness and procure lost health no remedy against the malady of heresie no salve for the sore of heterodoxie so proper as an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or platform of Divinity 3. He was eminent for the study of the Sacraments especially the Lords supper he was noted by many to be singularly well versed in the doctrine of this Sacrament particularly in that great work of self-examination and self-judging but in the practise of it he was most Divine a●● Seraphick whether he received from another or administred it himself he did it with so much reverence and affection that he was almost transported on a Sacrament day The first time he ever received he was so deeply affected with the love of his Saviour that he sounded away as soon as he had received the bread and not coming to himself till the Sacrament was ended he had the cup administred to himself alone thus he was sick of love for him that dyed out of love to him ever since he was Minister he celebrated the Lords supper with so much heavenliness and seriousness that all his Communicants could not choose but observe and admire him as if they had received Angels food from the hand of an Angel for at that work he shewed himself more than man 4. In writing his sermons he used to set down nothing but his heads and places of Scripture so that his notes are very short and so very unfit for the publick he never read any thing in his Sermons but always laid his notes behind him and would dehort young men from reading telling them that memory loved to be trusted he could very aptly and affectionately enlarge upon his short heads ex tempore and with a little praemeditation would even

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