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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
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Seventhly. The Servants of our SAVIOUR are such as have no Will of their own; such as ⟨p. 10⟩are entirely governed by the Will of their SAVIOUR; entirely at His Dispose. This is what Servants must come to! This is the Language always heard from the Servants of our SAVIOUR; Act. XXI. 14. The Will of the Lord be done. The Servants of our SAVIOUR, are willing to Do, all those things, whereof it may be said, This is the Will of God in CHRIST Jesus concerning you. The Things may be Hard Sayings, and their carnal Mind rise up in Rebellion against the Things, and they feel a rebellious Will stirring in themselves; yet they conform to the Will of their SAVIOUR, and mortify and extinguish their own. Yea, If it be the Will of their SAVIOUR, that they should suffer uncomfortable Things, here they yield a profound Submission to His Will. They have learned in whatever state they are, to be content, with the Will of their SAVIOUR; content with what state the Will of their SAVIOUR shall order for them. They Sacrifice All to the Will of their SAVIOUR; All their Enjoyments are bound unto the Horns of the Altar, standing ready to be sacrificed. They still say, O my SAVIOUR, Not my Will, but thy Will be done! And this compliance with the Will of their SAVIOUR, is very particularly conspicuous, in their submitting to Death, in the Time and in the Way, which our SAVIOUR shall appoint, when He will have no further Service from them. When the Servants of our SAVIOUR have that Order from ⟨p. 11⟩Him, Go up, and die!— 'tis without much Reluctancy complied withal: They say, O Thou Lord of my Life, if I have no more to do for thee, I am willing to die, and with a Love strong as Death, go through' the dark valley of the shadow of Death, to come unto thee! These, these are the Servants of the Lord.
Seventhly. The Servants of our SAVIOUR are such as have no Will of their own; such as ⟨p. 10⟩are entirely governed by the Will of their SAVIOUR; entirely at His Dispose. This is what Servants must come to! This is the Language always heard from the Servants of our SAVIOUR; Act. XXI. 14