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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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3. He was a Sober Christian: though he much enquired into spiritual Mysteries, yet he never was wise above what was written. I never knew him but a great Lover of the Scriptures, and a special Admirer of that they testified of, viz. the Glorious Mystery of Christ Crucified. He was never so superstitious, as against clearer ••ght, wilfully to retain dark and worm-eaten Principles; neither was he so slight, as upon every specious show to forego a well experimented serious truth, to embrace a notional nothing. I am privy to many temptations of this kind, which he often wrestled with: But this I know, that down-right plain truths, such as Peter preached, Acts 2. (an expression he often loved to use) were more acceptable and sweet to him, then all the empty highflown ⟨image 5⟩nations and speculations which this age, above all others, hath ushered into the world. God gave him the mercy of a plain heart, and that heart delighted in pure and plain 1truth. I have heard, that there is in Scotland a floating Island, that if the Seaman cast his Anchor there, the Land will probably carry away his Ship. This excellent Servant of the Lord did never cast the Anchor of his Soul upon such an uncertain thing, but upon Christ, who is yesterday, and to day, and the same for ever.
3. He was a Sober Christian: though he much enquired into spiritual Mysteries, yet he never was wise above what was written. I never knew him but a great Lover of the Scriptures, and a special Admirer of that they testified of, viz. the Glorious Mystery of Christ Crucified. He was never so superstitious, as against clearer ••ght, wilfully to retain dark and worm-eaten Principles; neither was he so slight, as upon every specious shew to sorego a wel experimented serious truth, to embrace a notional nothing. I am privy to many temptations of this kind, which he often wrastled with: But this I know, that down-right plain truths, such as Peter preached, Acts 2. (an expression he often loved to use) were more acceptable and sweet to him, then all the empty highflown