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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.
Mark the Apostle in this place; He saith to Christians, You Are Not Your Own! Why, whose are They then? They are Christs▪ And How come ⟨p. 11⟩they to be Christs? He tells them how, Ye Are Bought with a Price: And what of that? Therefore Glorify God, &c. If the Land be my Purchase▪ should Not the Fruit of that Land be my Benefit? Christians they are Christs Purchase, He purchased them by his own Blood, Act. 20. 28. And therefore All the Rent of their Lives must be paid in unto his Glory.
Mark the Apostle in this place; He saith to Christians, You Are Not Your Own! Why, whose are They then? They are Christs▪ And How come ⟨p. 11⟩they to be Christs? He tells them how, Ye Are Bought with a Price: And what of that? Therefore Glorifie God, &c. If the Land be my Purchase▪ should Not the Fruit of that Land be my Benefit? Christians they are Christs Purchase, He purchased them by his own Blood, Act. 20. 28. And therefore All the Rent of their Lives must be payd in unto his Glory.
Ah Christians! It cost Jesus Christ very dear to Redeem your Life from Death; The Redemption of your Souls was the costliest Purchase that ever was made; Ye were Redeemed with the precious Blood of Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 19. This was the Price. It did cost Christ His Life to Save your Life; and should he Not have That Life which he purchased by His Life▪ yea, and by His Death? Quicquid es, debes Creanti; Quicquid potes, debes Redimenti, said Bernard: Whatsoever thou Art, Thou owest to Him who made thee; and whatsoever thou Hast, Thou owest to Him who Redeemed thee.