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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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2. He was a Humble Christian; the higher he was in Gods account, the lower still in his own: He knew too much of God, as not to know himself: He often spake in the language of Job; I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but 1now mine eye seeth thee; wherefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes. He was never like the Pharisee, who lived far from neighbours, and so was necessitated to commend himself. He did indeed for his time very much for God, yet 2was he never heard to say, Come see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts. He always observed the Apostles Rule, to put on humbleness of mind, and to be clothed with humility; for all that ever conversed with him, did, from the sweetness of his carriage, truly conclude him to be a man humble in Spirit. In the midst of all his honours he was rather pressed down with the weight of them, then puffed up with the blast of them. When he was at the highest, the poor, which received the Gospel, he still with much delight received as his familiars and equals; yea, with S. Paul, rather accounting himself the least, 3yea less then the least of all Saints.
2. He was a Humble Christian; the higher he was in Gods account, the lower still in his own: He knew too much of God, as not to know himself: He often spake in the language of Job; I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but 1now mine eye seeth thee; wherefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes. He was never like the Pharisee, who lived far from neighbors, and so was necessitated to commend himself. He did indeed for his time very much for God, yet 2was he never heard to say, Come see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts. He always observed the Apostles Rule, to put on humbleness of mind, and to be clothed with humility; for all that ever conversed with him, did, from the sweetness of his carriage, truly conclude him to be a man humble in Spirit. In the midst of all his honours he was rather pressed down with the weight of them, then puffed up with the blast of them. When he was at the highest, the poor, which received the Gospel, he still with much delight received as his familiars and equals; yea, with S. Paul, rather accounting himself the least,