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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.
In Act. 4. 17, 18. The Counsel there threaten and charge the Apostles, That henceforth they should speak to no man in the Name of Christ: What Answer make Peter and John to this? See Vers. 20. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard, ([Greek or Hebrew]) Alas! do you command us to be ••lent for Christ? Why, it is impossible that we should not publish Christ, and magnify Christ: We cannot but speak for him, and do for him: You may as well charge the Sun to stand still, as charge us to be silent for Christ.
In Act. 4. 17, 18. The Councel there threaten and charge the Apostles, That henceforth they should speak to no man in the Name of Christ: What Answer make Peter and Iohn to this? See Vers. 20. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard, (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) Alass! do you command us to be ••lent for Christ? Why, it is impossible that we should not publish Christ, and magnifie Christ: We cannot but speak for him, and do for him: You may as well charge the Sun to stand still, as charge us to be silent for Christ.
2. That which is a Mans Chief End, it doth Commensurare; it doth square, and suit, and fit all 1his actions and ways with a conformable Subserviency and Respectiveness unto that end. There is always a Proportion and Harmony 'twixt an End, and Actions looking at that End. And therefore is it, That according unto mens several Ends, there are several sorts of Actions; and always those are laid aside, which are inconsistent with, or repugnant to our ends; and those only are chosen, which are subordinate unto them.
2. That which is a Mans Chief End, it doth Commensurare; it doth square, and suit, and fit all