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Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true…
Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true believer: or, The life of a saint resolved into Christ, and His death into gain. Held forth clearly in a sermon preached at the late sad and solemn funeral of the right worshipful Rowland Wilson, Esq; a Member of the Parliament of England, and of the honourable Council of State; and one of the aldermen and sheriffs of the city of London. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Covent-Garden. Together with an epistle dedicatory: wherein is an exact account given upon some years more then ordinary experience of the superlative worth of this eminent servant of Christ, and of the Common-wealth. By George Cokayn, an unworthy teacher of the Gospel at Pancras Supper lane, London.Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true beleever: or, The life of a saint resolved into Christ, and His death into gain. Held forth clearly in a sermon preached at the late sad and solemn funeral of the right worshipful Rowland Wilson, Esq; a Member of the Parliament of England, and of the honorable Councel of State; and one of the aldermen and sheriffs of the city of London. By Obadiah Sedgvvick, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Covent-Garden. Together with an epistle dedicatory: wherein is an exact account given upon some years more then ordinary experience of the superlative worth of this eminent servant of Christ, and of the Common-wealth. By George Cokayn, an unworthy teacher of the Gospel at Pancras Soper lane, London.
London: printed by J. Macock for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moul, 1650
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PHILIPPIANS 1. 21. To Me to Live, is Christ; and to Dye, is Gain.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But, as one spake well, Seldom is Excellency in Any Kind long-lived. When we see Men Abundantly laid out for Christ, and Acting for Him, It is an Ordinary Symptom, That they have Not much time left to do for Christ. When a Person is High in Grace, He is Nigh to Glory; the Nearer the Centre, the Swifter Motion. And thus it befell him: His days were Fulfilled even in the midst of his days. Weakness and Sickness suddenly seize on him, and at length translate him to be with His Christ, which is best of All. And all these Death-summons and Death-strokes he did Bear with that Heavenly Patience, and sweet composedness of Spirit, that as the Jews •eign of Moses's Soul, That it was Sucked out of his mouth with Kisses; So His Soul did Kindly take leave of His Body, that, without ⟨p. 32⟩a Metaphor or Hyperbole, His Death was but a Sleep and Rest.
But, as one spake well, Seldom is Excellency in Any Kinde long-liv'd. When we see Men Abundantly layd out for Christ, and Acting for Him, It is an Ordinary Symptome, That they have Not much time left to do for Christ. When a Person is High in Grace, He is Nigh to Glory; the Nearer the Center, the Swifter Motion. And thus it befel him: His days were Fulfilled even in the midst of his days. Weakness and Sickness suddenly seize on him, and at length translate him to be with His Christ, which is best of All. And all these Death-summons and Death-strokes he did Bear with that Heavenly Patience, and sweet composedness of Spirit, that as the Jews •eign of Moses's Soul, That it was Suck'd out of his mouth with Kisses; So His Soul did Kindly take leave of His Body, that, without ⟨p. 32⟩a Metaphor or Hyperbole, His Death was but a Sleep and Rest.
And Here, by the way, suffer me (as a Friend) to speak for him, who cannot Now speak for himself, In Taking off that Falsehood, Bold and Notorious Falsehood, Raised on him by That Generation of Liars, even whiles he was yet living, and able to confute it, himself; As Luther did the lying Scandals of the Papists, concerning his strange hideous Death and Burial.