A92849:13
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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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.
VIRTUOUS LADY,
IT is enacted by the Supreme Power of Heaven and Earth, That man, the Master of the Creation, should be a servant and a helper to the most contemptible creature fallen under his burden: by virtue of that Law the Ox or the Ass might 1challenge and command help from their owners. Doth God take care of Oxen? Surely for our sakes these things are written, to show, that the Lord in a special manner doth oblige and command all that mention his Name, to make themselves, to the utmost, comforting and refreshing to all his people, who taste the bitterness, and feel the weight of an afflicted state. God no sooner hears the sad cries and complaints of poor oppressed Israel in Egypt, but Moses hears the news from *God of his going with a present Message of Relief to them. Nay, the Spirit himself, God equal with the Father and the Son, shall upon the same account be *sent from Heaven, and this shall be the great Title he shall be invested with, viz. [The Comforter.] To comfort the Saints is a work every way suitable to the highest in Heaven or Earth to perform. When I consider these things, but especially recollect the innumerable Obligations which are upon me from the constant flowings forth of your expressions of friendship to me, I (being for many years together your poor & unworthy Servant in the things of the Gospel) could not but in a special manner account it my duty solicitously to endeavour the bringing forth of something, which through the blessing of God might be instrumental to the scattering of the darkness of that night which is now upon you, through the late inexpected and sadly lamented setting of that Sun which did shine so gloriously in your Horizon. And truly amongst all other things which my thoughts endeavoured to engage for your refreshment, I found none so exactly calculated to your condition as that incomparable piece of Gospel ⟨image 3⟩