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Christodulus. A good reward of a good servant. Or, The service of a glorious…
Christodulus. A good reward of a good servant. Or, The service of a glorious Christ, justly demanded and commended, from a view of the glory with which it shall be recompensed [sic]. With some commemoration of Mr. Thomas Walter, lately a Pastor to a church in Roxbury: who had an early dismission from what of that service was to be done in this world. Jan. 10. 1724--5. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]Christodulus. A good reward of a good servant. Or, The service of a glorious Christ, justly demanded and commended, from a view of the glory with which it shall be recempensed [sic]. With some commemoration of Mr. Thomas Walter, lately a Pastor to a church in Roxbury: who had an early dismission from what of that service was to be done in this world. Jan. 10. 1724--5. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines of qutation in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet for S. Gerrish, 1725
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To my dear Brother, Mr. NEHEMIAH WALTER, Pastor of the first Church in Roxbury.
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.
IT is mentioned among the Occurrences of a very sorrowful Time, A Man's Uncle shall take him up. It seems, upon a Young Man's Dying, 'tis looked for, that his Uncle should perform the part of a Father to him. I am now to do it, on the behalf of a desirable Young Man, who was to me not unlike what a Sisters Son was to Paul; and whose Death makes a sorrowful Time for us: Herein also an Uncle attempts to abate the Sorrows of a Father. And tho' no Word in any other Language can express, what the Hebrew has in its CHESED, for our Duty to the Dead; yet the Thing I am now in my poor way endeavouring.
IT is mentioned among the Occurrences of a very sorrowful Time, A Man's Uncle shall take him up. It seems, upon a Young Man's Dying, 'tis look'd for, that his Uncle should perform the part of a Father to him. I am now to do it, on the behalf of a desirable Young Man, who was to me not unlike what a Sisters Son was to Paul; and whose Death makes a sorrowful Time for us: Herein also an Uncle attempts to abate the Sorrows of a Father. And tho' no Word in any other Language can express, what the Hebrew has in its CHESED, for our Duty to the Dead; yet the Thing I am now in my poor way endeavouring.
When the lovely Young Caesarius, the Son of the blessed Old Gregorius, died before his Father, Nazianzen in his Funeral Oration upon him, compared his Father unto an Aaron in the House of his GOD. I am sure, there is One thing in an Aaron, which is not unworthy of Your Imitation on this Occasion; As he was a great Sacrificer, so when a sad Thing befell his Family, ⟨p. ii⟩He held his peace. And if Nonna wisely bear her part also in the Sacrifices, upon the offering whereof with an holy Silence and Patience and Resignation, it will be said, Now I know that thou fearest GOD; what was Good will still be Better.
When the lovely Young Caesarius, the Son of the blessed Old Gregorius, died before his Father, Nazianzen in his Funeral Oration upon him, compared his Father unto an Aaron in the House of his GOD. I am sure, there is One thing in an Aaron, which is not unworthy of Your Imitation on this Occasion; As he was a great Sacrificer, so when a sad Thing befel his Family,