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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. That Real Christians do propound Jesus Christ As the Scope and End of their Life. 2. Why they do so, and why they should do so.
That Real Christians do Propound Jesus Christ 1As the End of their living, will plainly Appear, if you do seriously consider, That Jesus Christ hath All those peculiar Influences and Operations upon their Hearts, which Any Chief End hath upon every man who sets it up, As So, unto Himself. That which is Any Mans Chief End, it hath Six Qualities in it.
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1. It doth Excitare; it sets a man to work, it 1sets the wheels going; it doth awaken and stir every Faculty of the Soul, and makes them Active. If a ⟨p. 5⟩Mans Heart be Set on Any part of the World As his Chief End, suppose it be Honour with Haman, or Pleasure with Belshazzar, or Riches with Dives; why, presently All the Soul is drawn out, and works for that worldly End: The Mind thinks and plods, the Will desires and stirs, the Affections long and thirst, and the whole in that man acts and labours towards that End. In like manner Jesus Christ (who is the Great End of a Christians Life) hath a very strong and influential virtue upon the Heart of a Christian: The Glory of Christ quickens, stirs, draws out his Soul; The love of Christ constrains us, said Paul in 2 Cor. 5. 14. It doth urge us, puts us