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 Councel 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.Isaiah 57. 1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.Difficile est definire extra Christum, sitne mori utilius quam vivere: rursum adsit Christus, & vitam nostram perinde ac mortem benedicet, ut sit utraque nobis fausta & expetenda. Calv.London, Printed by J. Macock for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moll, at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard, near the West end 1650.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.Isaiah 57. 1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.Difficile est definire extra Christum, sitne mori utilius quam vivere: rursum adsit Christus, & vitam nostram perinde ac mortem benedicet, ut sit utraque nobis fausta & expetenda. Calv.London, Printed by J. Macock for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moul, at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard, neer the West end 1650.Title page of Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true…, London, 1650Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true…Obadiah Sedgwick, 1650

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I Shall not trouble you with the Coherence, nor with the various Readings of these words, which do consist of Two parts: 1. The Scope or End of a Christians Life, [To me to live, is Christ.] 2. The Hope and Fruit of a Christians Death, [And to dye, is Gain.] A Real Christian is (of all men) in the Best Condition: For if he lives, he Gets; and if he dyes, he Gains. None Improve Life well, and None Enrich themselves by Death, but Believing Christians. From these Two parts there are two Propositions, unto which I intend to speak at this time: 1. The First is, That the Life of a Real Christian is Resolved into Christ. 2. The Second is, That ⟨p. 2⟩the Death of a Real Christian is Resolved into Gain. I begin with the First of these.

I Shall not trouble you with the Coherence, nor with the various Readings of these words, which do consist of Two parts: 1. The Scope or End of a Christians Life, [To me to live, is Christ.] 2. The Hope and Fruit of a Christians Death, [And to dye, is Gain.] A Real Christian is (of all men) in the Best Condition: For if he lives, he Gets; and if he dyes, he Gains. None Improve Life well, and None Inrich themselves by Death, but Beleeving Christians. From these Two parts there are two Propositions, unto which I intend to speak at this time: 1. The First is, That the Life of a Real Christian is Resolved into Christ. 2. The Second is, That ⟨p. 2⟩the Death of a Real Christian is Resolved into Gain. I begin with the First of these.

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