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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