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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

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΕΡΔΟΣ 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. To the truly Religious and ever Honored Mrs Mary Wilson disconsolate Widow to the late worthy and godly Patriot 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 Grace and Consolation from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ VIRTUOUS LADY IT is enacted by the Supream Power of Heaven and Earth That man the Master of the Creation should be a servant and a helper to the most contemptible creature fallen under his burden by vertue of that Law the Ox or the Ass might Exo. 23. 5. Deu. 22. 4. challenge and command help from their owners Doth God take care of Oxen Surely for our sakes these things are written to shew that the Lord in a special manner doth oblige and command all that mention his Name to make themselves to the utmost comforting and refreshing to all his people who taste the bitterness and feel the weight of an afflicted state God no sooner hears the sad cries and complaints of poor oppressed Israel in Egypt but Moses hears the news from * Exod. 3● 9 10 God of his going with a present Message of Relief to them Nay the Spirit himself God equal with the Father and the Son shall upon the same account be * Ioh. 14. 16 sent from Heaven and this shall be the great Title he shall be invested with viz. The Comforter To comfort the Saints is a work every way suitable to the highest in Heaven or Earth to perform When I consider these things but especially recollect the innumerable Obligations which are upon me from the constant flowings forth of your expressions of friendship to me I being for many years together your poor unworthy Servant in the things of the Gospel could not but in a special maner account it my duty solicitously to endeavor the bringing forth of something which through the blessing of God might be instrumental to the scattering of the darkness of that night which is now upon you through the late inexpected and sadly lamented setting of that Sun which did shine so gloriously in your Horizon And truly amongst all other things which my thoughts endeavored to engage for your refreshment I found none so exactly calculated to your condition as that incomparable peece of Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Mr Ob●diah Sedgwick that 〈◊〉 and godly Messenger of Christ at the late sad and solemn Puneral of your loving and beloved Husband And seeing the reverend Author through a modest and humble disowning of himself was unwilling to be Midwife to his own Birth I have with his consent and leave obtained through much importunity made bold to present it to you as that which through the concurrence of divine blessing may administer exceeding abundant consolation to your drooping and decaying Spirit I cannot but look upon this Text and Sermon as an exact Comment upon your prec●●us husband his life and death his life was nothing else but a continual resolution of all his actions and ends into Christ and his death nothing else but a victory over sin and a sure conduct into the blessed state of eternity And now did I not fear the further opening of the sluces of your swelling passion to the breaking in of an irresistible torrent of sadness upon your Spirit I could very easily engage my self to a voluminous Discourse of this nature but lest the lifting up of him should renew an occasion of casting down your Spirit I shall the more briefly present before you and the whole world what in my own observation was always since I know him eminently deserving in him Whereby it will plainly appear that the Life and Spirit both of Text and Sermon did clearly shew forth themselves in him The truth is when I consider the exactness of his carriage in all relations I am very apt to think that as for a complication of all perfections he while he lived was * Nulli secundus second to none so now he is gone there will scarce another appear second to him He was an incomparable Husband to you an excellent Man to the State and a precious Christian to God He was to you the sweetest yoke-fellow in the world not one of his carriages but apparently bearing the Image of that Fountain from whence it sprung viz. strong wise and intire affections He loved exceedingly and yet ruled discreetly You had I am sure all you desired which was his heart but not his head He was Plin nat Hist li. 10. cap. 62. never like the hee-viper which put his head into the sheevipers mouth What God gave him to keep he kept and what God gave him to communicate to you he did punctually perform The truth is both of you in this were ex●ct Disciples to Moses always confining your selves to your proper apparel That perfection methoughts which was amongst the rest as the Sun in the midst of the Stars was his unparalleld contentedness in the want of children like Abraham in this that he never in the least grieved you by abraiding you but excelling Abraham in this that he never either to God or man unbecomingly complained of the want of a mercy so naturally desireable but still expressed his sence of the full and compleat making up of that tryal next to Christ in your self And when it pleased God to lay a real foundation of hopes of enjoying that blessing he was indeed like a Beleever affected with the goodness and Providence of God but not at all so transported as if he had not been long before crucified to it And when it pleased God to return and blast those