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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.
That the Death of a Christian is Resolved into 1Gain, [To me to live, is Christ, And to dye, is Gain.]
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I shall not trouble you with the several considerations of Gain, which yet might be aptly applied to the present Subject; As (Lucrum ex Benevolentia, ex Pacto, ex Societate, ex Re Accepta,) Gain by Favour, by Compact, by Society, by Matter falling into hand, in respect of all which the Christian is a Gainer by Death. But I shall briefly clear the Assertion, 1. By Scriptures. 2. By Arguments.
I shall not trouble you with the several considerations of Gain, which yet might be aptly applied to the present Subject; As (Lucrum ex Benevolentia, ex Pacto, ex Societate, ex Re Accepta,) Gain by Favor, by Compact, by Society, by Matter falling into hand, in respect of all which the Christian is a Gainer by Death. But I shall briefly clear the Assertion, 1. By Scriptures. 2. By Arguments.
1. By Scriptures. Ecclesiastes 7. 1. The day of Death is better then the day of ones Birth. If it be Better, then it is Gain. If you get more by Death then you do by Life, surely then Death is a Gain. Phil. 1. 23. I have a desire to depart, (i. e.) to dye, (Death to a Godly man is but a departure from one condition to another, and from one place to another,) and to be with Christ, which is far Better. To be In