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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.
1. Principium, The Principle or Fountain of His Life: All Spiritual Life is First in Christ, and Next in us; As the life of the Branches is First in the Root, and from thence Imparted to the Branches: I Am the Vine, Ye Are the Branches; Joh. 15. 5.
2. Objectum: Christ is the Object upon which the Christian lives; I live by the Faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2. 20. As the Ordinary Man lives upon his Food, so the Spiritual Man lives upon his Christ. Whatsoever makes for Life, For that doth the Believer live on Christ, who indeed is the only All of Life, and for Life, unto his Soul.
2. Objectum: Christ is the Object upon which the Christian lives; I live by the Faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2. 20. As the Ordinary Man lives upon his Food, so the Spiritual Man lives upon his Christ. Whatsoever makes for Life, For that doth the Beleever live on Christ, who indeed is the onely All of Life, and for Life, unto his Soul.
3. Regula: Christ is the Rule and Square of a Christians Life; He that Abideth in him, Ought himself also to walk, As he walked, 1 Joh. 2. 6. Hence those expressions, My ways which be In Christ, 1 Cor. 4. 17. Your Good Conversation In Christ,