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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.
You have the like passage in 2 Cor. 5. 15. He dyed for All, that They which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, But unto Him which dyed for them, and rose again. The Apostle doth here make a Parallel and Reciprocal Intention 'twixt Christ and Christians. The Intention of Christ in His Death was Their Good, (He dyed for them;) and the Intention ⟨p. 4⟩of Christ in His Resurrection was Their Good, (He Rose again for them; He was delivered for Our Offences, and was Raised again for Our Justification, Rom. 4. 25.) Christ did not live for Himself, but For Us; Christ did not dye for Himself, but For Us; Christ did not Rise for Himself, but For Us: He intended Our Good in All these. And so Reciprocally, Christians should, in their whole course of life, Not intend Themselves, but Christ; Not live unto themselves, but unto Christ: Our Good and Salvation was His End, and His Honour and Glory should be Our End.
You have the like passage in 2 Cor. 5. 15. He dyed for All, that They which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, But unto Him which dyed for them, and rose again. The Apostle doth here make a Parallel and Reciprocal Intention 'twixt Christ and Christians. The Intention of Christ in His Death was Their Good, (He dyed for them;) and the Intention ⟨p. 4⟩of Christ in His Resurrection was Their Good, (He Rose again for them; He was delivered for Our Offences, and was Raised again for Our Justification, Rom. 4. 25.) Christ did not live for Himself, but For Us; Christ did not dye for Himself, but For Us; Christ did not Rise for Himself, but For Us: He intended Our Good in All these. And so Reciprocally, Christians should, in their whole course of life, Not intend Themselves, but Christ; Not live unto themselves, but unto Christ: Our Good and Salvation was His End, and His Honor and Glory should be Our End.