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A92849	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.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Cokayn, George, 1619-1691.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2368; Thomason E599_6; ESTC R206326	26,159	45

All the Interests of Christ O that you who are the Embassadors of Christ would live more to Christ Do you desire to Know Nothing but Jesus Christ and Him Crucified Reveal the Glorious Excellencies of Christ make Know the unspeakable Love of Christ direct men strive with men perswade men to Know Christ to come into Christ to serve Christ What have you more to do then to be doing for Christ O that All of us would live more to Christ That All our Oyl might be emptied into the Golden Candlestick That Parents and Children Masters and Servants All might be doing more for Christ Every Morning let us consider What may I do this day for Christ Every Evening let us Review What have I done this day for Christ And as he thought that day lost wherein he had done No Good thing So let us repute that part of Life as dead and lost wherein we have done Nothing to the Honor and Advantage of Christ O Christian Thou livest not until thou livest to Christ O Christian Thou canst not dye but thou must dye for ever if thou hast not lived unto Christ It was a Good Speech of one Vis in pace mori sis Servus Dei Wouldst thou dye in Peace then be the Servant of God So say I Wouldst thou dye and Go to Christ then live so as to be a Servant of Christ Every Man when he dyes Goes unto his Master whom he hath served and to whom he hath lived A Wi●ked Man when he dyes he goes to his Master whom he hath served He goes to the Devil and to the Place of Torment A Godly Man when he dyes he goes to His Master He goes to His Christ and enters into the Joy of his Master If you would dye with Pauls Confidence you must first live with Pauls Conscience I have fought A Good Fight I have finished my Course I have Kept the Faith Here is Pauls Conscience Henceforth there is layd up for me A Crown of Righteousness c. Here is Pauls Confidence 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. O Blessed Christ Be Thou my Master make me thy Servant Let me grieve that I have done so little for thee let me pray that I may do more for thee When Death comes my work is at an end I can then Never Speak more Nor do more for Thee who hast done so much for me O that I could live many days in one day and many lives in one life The time is short the Reward is infinite let my remaining life be No longer mine but thine At least let this be found in me That I would serve none but thy Self and that though others may exceed me in Acting for thy Glory yet None may exceed me in Sincerity of Endevor to be Altogether Thine And thus have I said Something of the Best Life and of the Best Death To live is Christ To dye is Gain I will borrow a little more of your Patience to Speak a few words to the Present Occasion concerning our Brother departed who whiles he lived could say To me to live is Christ and being Now dead hath found the other truth of the Text To me to dye is Gain His manner of Life from his youth most or many of you here present do Know And therefore I shall say the less of him of whom you Knew so well and so much There were three things three choyce Jewels which were very Remarkable in him besides All the rest The First was Humility the Beauty of Graces The Second was Integrity the Soul of Graces The Third was Faith the Crown of Graces 1. He was an Humble Christian under All those Eminent Places of Service unto which He was called For one who lived so short a space of Time He lived not above Thirty Six years in all He was Advanced to as many and as the Times Now are to as Great Places of Employment as Any of His Rank I think in the Land To be a Parliament-man To be of the Councel of State To be a Justice in the Country To be an Alderman and Sheriff of This Great City c. Under All which weight of Advancements He deported himself with a discreet and lowly spirit Not lifted up Not at all losing himself Nor Altered by Any of these Alterations These things were under Him Not above Him and truly he looked on them as Burthens and Cares and Greater Duties Not as Dignities and Poor Glories It is Not an easie matter to bear a low condition with a contented minde No● yet an High condition with a lowly Heart It shews a strength of Grace to be Patient in Troubles and to be Humble in Dignities 2. He was a Sincere Christian Active and Sincere His Integrity was Answerable unto his Humility In all His Places wasting his Life for the Publique Good Doing much Good but Scraping up Nothing to his Private Good The Publique did not serve Him but He did serve the Publique He was the Servant Not the Executor of the Land He might truly say as once Samuel did Behold here I am witness Against me Whose Ox have I Taken or whose Ass have I taken or whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed or of whose hand have I received Any Bribe to blinde mine eyes therewith 1 Sam. 12. 3. 3. He was a Beleeving Christian prizing and exalting Christ Above All and Rejoycing in Christ as in His onely Best of All Nay often exposing his very life Jeoparding it in th●●igh places of the Field Not counting it too dear for Christ and His Cause But as one spake well Seldom is Excellency in Any Kinde long-liv'd When we see Men Abundantly layd out for Christ and Acting for Him It is an Ordinary Symptome That they have Not much time left to do for Christ When a Person is High in Grace He is Nigh to Glory the Nearer the Center the Swifter Motion And thus it befel him His days were Fulfilled even in the midst of his days Weakness and Sickness suddenly seize on him and at length translate him to be with His Christ which is best of All. And all these Death-summons and Death-strokes he did Bear with that Heavenly Patience and sweet composedness of Spirit that as the Jews ●eign of Moses's Soul That it was Suck'd out of his mouth with Kisses So His Soul did Kindly take leave of His Body that without a Metaphor or Hyperbole His Death was but a Sleep and Rest And Here by the way suffer me as a Friend to speak for him who cannot Now speak for himself In Taking off that Falshood Bold and Notorious Falshood Raised on him by That Generation of Lyars even whiles he was yet living and able to confute it himself As Luther did the lying Scandals of the Papists concerning his strange hideous Death and Burial Some had Raised on him at the beginning of his weakness That he was Fallen mad and they Assign the Particular Occasion of it Then both which Nothing could be more Falsly said The very Truth is That he was of a composed Minde to the very last Gasp and so composedly Himself that within a Few hours before his Death he perfected his own Will with his own Hand But This is an old malicious Trick of the Devil to oppose Good Men living and to reproach Good Men dying and dead Jesus Christ could Not Escape it in his Life Nor yet when layd in his Grave No more could the Apostles of Christ Nor the Primitive Christians Nor those Eminent Servants of Christ against Popery Hus Wicliff Luther Calvin Oecolampadius Beza Junius c. Nor yet many Glorious Instruments in our own days The Servant is Not Above his Master If Christ himself were Accounted Mad it must Not seem harsh Nor strange that Any of his Servants be Reputed so And besides this it is also a Comfort to Good Men when None speak evil of them but evil men Nor can these speak evil of them without a lye as Jerom hath it And truly it is a Sure Sign that there is something of Great Worth in that Man whose Name wicked men do strive so much to asperse and wound The Dogs bark most when the Traveller Gallops But let these poor spirited men have leave to please themselves who have no other weapon but a lye and a Reproach left to Revenge themselves This is the Truth Our departed Brother lived in Faith and dyed in Peace If in Any thing he might truly be said Not to be Himself it was onely in this That He was Not his Own but Christs And so I have done with him and with you save that I have a Word to them who stood in Near Relation unto him I confess your loss is Great but let this comfort you that so His Gain is also exceeding Great You have more cause to Rejoyce that you had such a Husband and such a Son then you have to Grieve that God hath Taken him from you He is but Gone before you must shortly Follow In the mean time make up All your Comforts in God Though these Outward Comforts dye yet the God of All Comforts lives for ever The Sun still shines though the Glass-windows be broken And let us All here at this time Go away the Better We must Every one ere long dye and come to Judgment and Give an Account of our Life Live so that you may live for ever and dye so that you may dye but once You Are Servants and I trust Christs Servants Be doing the Work of Christ and be Faithful in That Work of Christ Blessed is that Servant whom His Master when He cometh shall Finde So Doing and So Liveing FINIS

dispensation take occasion to lead you forth into further experiences of himself that you might while you drink down this bitter cup taste also and see that the Lord is gracious This I know will be your only relief and that which in ●●●e will certainly scatter that cloud of sadness which indeed at present rests with too great darkness upon your Spirit which the Lord by the manifestation of himself will in his time totally dispel In the mean while let that sweet Scripture as a companion rest with you Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness he is gracious and Psa 112. 4. full of compassion and righteous That the Marrow and Spirit of this Text may be your Portion is the uncessan● Prayer of LADY Your poor Orator at the Throne of Grace and unworthy Servant in the Work of the Gospel GEORGE COKAY Apr. 18. 1650. PHILIPPIANS 1. 21. To Me to Live is Christ and to Dye is Gain 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 the Death of a Real Christian is Resolved into Gain I begin with the First of these That the Life of a Real Christian is Resolved into 1 Propo●●● Christ To me to live is Christ The Life of a Chistian hath a Four-fold reference unto Christ Christ is 1. Principium The Principle or Fountain of His Life All Spiritual Life is First in Christ and Next in us As the life of the Branches is First in the Root and from thence Imparted to the Branches I Am the Vine Ye Are the Branches Joh. 15. 5. 2. Objectum Christ is the Object upon which the Christian lives I live by the Faith of the Son of God Gal. 2. 20. As the Ordinary Man lives upon his Food so the Spiritual Man lives upon his Christ Whatsoever makes for Life For that doth the Beleever live on Christ who indeed is the onely All of Life and for Life unto his Soul 3. Regula Christ is the Rule and Square of a Christians Life He that Abideth in him Ought himself also to walk As he walked 1 Joh. 2. 6. Hence those expressions My ways which be In Christ 1 Cor. 4. 17. Your Good Conversation In Christ 1 Pet. 3. 16. Be Followers of me As I am of Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. Walk in love As Christ also hath loved us Eph. 5. 2. The Life of Christ is the Copy and the Life of a Christian is a Line written after that Copy The Life of Christ is the Seal and the Life of a Christian is the Character or Expression of that Seal His Life is in this sence also The Manifestation of the life of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 10. 4. Finis or Scopus Christ is the End unto which and for which a Christian doth live The Life of a Christian that is the Course of a Christian the Course of his Thoughts and Designs the Course of his Desires and Affections the Course of his Endevors and Labors All the Course of his Life is directed unto Christ it is subordinate and serviceable to the Glorifying of Christ None of us saith the Apostle in Rom. 14. 7 8. liveth to Himself and No man dyeth to Himself For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dye we dye unto the Lord c. A man lives unto himself who sets up Qui se unum respicit himself As the End of his living and onely regards himself You have a suitable expression with this in Psal 49. 18. Whiles he lived he Blessed his own Soul Hetib lenapsiselso i. e. All that he Aimed at was to please and benefit and enrich and increase himself So on the contrary To live unto the Lord to live unto Christ is Not onely to Set up the Will of Christ As the Rule of Life But Also to Set up the Glory and Advantages of Christ As the Superlative Aim or End of Life You have the like passage in 2 Cor. 5. 15. He dyed for All that They which live should not henceforth live unto themselves But unto Him which dyed for them and rose again The Apostle doth here make a Parallel and Reciprocal Intention 'twixt Christ and Christians The Intention of Christ in His Death was Their Good He dyed for them and the Intention of Christ in His Resurrection was Their Good He Rose again for them He was delivered for Our Offences and was Raised again for Our Justification Rom. 4. 25. Christ did not live for Himself but For Us Christ did not dye for Himself but For Us Christ did not Rise for Himself but For Us He intended Our Good in All these And so Reciprocally Christians should in their whole course of life Not intend Themselves but Christ Not live unto themselves but unto Christ Our Good and Salvation was His End and His Honor and Glory should be Our End Now for the further clearing of this Assertion I shall endeavor to demonstrate two Things Namely 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 1. As 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 1. It doth Excitare it sets a man to work it Finis movet ad Agendum sets the wheels going it doth awaken and stir every Faculty of the Soul and makes them Active If a Mans Heart be Set on Any part of the World As his Chief End suppose it be Honor 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 Minde thinks and plods the Will desires and stirs the Affections long and thirst and the whole in that man acts and labors 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

thy Blood and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests And therefore worthy is the Lamb to Receive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honor and Glory and Blessing Rev. 5. 9 10 12. Nay let me add one Obligation more which lies upon you and that is this You are the onely People in the world whom Jesus Christ doth intrust with his Glorious Interests He forms you for his Praise he trusts you with All his Honor here below amongst the sons of men And truly as it is your Great Honor to be trusted with the Honor of Christ So are you thereby the more obliged to live and act for his Honor and Glory 5. To direct and act the whole Course of Life for Christ This is the Highest and Noblest Improvement of Life Beloved Our Actions have their denominations partly from their Formal and intrinsecal cause and partly from their Final and extrinsecal cause The Actions of Man are more Noble then those of Irrational Creatures because They do flow from a Cause from a Soul which is more Noble And the Actions of a Christian are more Noble then those of a Man because they do spring from Principles which are divine And as Actions are thus dignified by their Formal Causes so likewise are They by their Final and Extrinsecal Causes The more low and sordid the Ends are the more base are the Actions of Life As when they are unworthy of such a state and condition If a Man should form his course of Life onely for such ends which do bound the Appetites of Brute Beasts in satisfying of himself with Sensual Objects this sordid End makes his Life a most sordid Life And so on the contrary the more excellent the Ends are for which our Lives are improved the more are our Lives raised in the degrees of Beauty and Perfection The more perfect Ends do always grace our Actions with the more perfect Glory The Actions of God himself are therefore the most glorious because they are Levelled at and come up most perfectly to His own Glory which is the chief End of Himself And so it is with the Actions of our Lives when they Rise to Christ and are Terminated in him This is their Dignity and Glory they cannot be Raised unto a more choyce Nature or degree of employment They are Now carried on and lifted up to the highest End As far as Christ and His Glory are above Sinful Lusts and Worldly Lusts above Earthly Pleasures and Earthly Profits and Earthly Honors and above our Selves So Far is a Living unto Christ above and beyond a Living unto Any or All of these And thus have you heard the First Proposition in some measure cleared unto you Namely That the Life of a Christian is Resolved into Christ I Now come to speak of the second Proposition which is this That the Death of a Christian is Resolved into 2 Propo●it Gain To me to live is Christ And to dye is Gain 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 E●e Christum cum Paulo magna securitas Esse Paulum cum Christo summa Felicitas Bernard Christ is very Good thus we are whiles we live But to be With Christ this is Best of All and thus we are when we dye For Christ to be with Paul this was a Great Blessing But for Paul to be with Christ this was chiefest Blessedness said Bernard Take one place more Revel 14. 13. Blessed Are the Dead which dye in the Lord they rest from their labors and their works Follow them There is a Proportion of Blessedness which Christians have in this Life But the Full Portion of it is at Death therefore Death is Gain In this Life we are laboring for Blessedness but at Death you shall be Fully possessed of Blessedness Possession is better then Expectation and Blessedness in Hand is better then Blessedness in Hope therefore Death is Gain to Christians 2. By Arguments It cannot be but that Christians must Needs Gain by Death Because thereupon they pass into such an Estate where they do receive a Full Reward and where All the Promises of God are perfectly made Good unto them and where All the Gracious and Eternal Intentions of Love and Happiness towards them are as in their last End Fulfilled and Accomplished And beyond which Estate there is Not in them No Not a possible capacity for the Fruition of a Greater Perfection and Glory But more particularly If the Estate into which the Christian is Translated by Death doth more then Recompence All his Losses by Death and doth transcendently exceed All the Benefits which he hath in Life then Death is Gain or Advantage unto him For herein doth All Gain consist It is a Fuller Recompence or a Larger Addition If you lose a little and for that Receive more this is Gain If you lay out a little and for this Take in much this also is Gain Now consider 1. The Christians Compensations by Death are far greater then any of his Losses by Death You read of the Phoenix that her old Age falling into the Flames of death procures unto her a second Edition or Birth of a New and Fresh Life And hereby Death is an Advantage unto that Creature Much more is it to the Christian concerning whom the Apostle saith in 2 Cor. 5. 4. That Mortality is swallowed up of Life and that Death is but the dissolving of his Earthly house so that he might enjoy An house Not made with Hand Eternal in the Heavens Vers 1. There is Nothing which you can lose by Death but what must be lost and what for the most part may be lost in Life And whatsoever that is which you so lose by Death it is superabundantly made up unto you again You lose a Mortal Life but then you Finde an Immortal Life You lose the Society of Men but then you Finde the Society of Angels You lose the Sight of Friends but then you Finde the Sight of God You lose the Possession of the World but then you Finde the Possession of the Kingdom of Heaven Are Not these Compensations more then Equivalent to your Losses