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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

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