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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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Oh! That you would Examine your selves; Am I one of these? How far do I answer this Character? This I will say; Behold, Are ye the Servants of the Lord, O you who this Day stand in the House of the Lord? Then, Bless the Lord. For, The Lord who made Heaven and Earth will bless you out of Zion, and bring you into Zion, and nothing in Heaven or Earth proper for you, shall be denied unto you.
II. But this is what is in the second place to be set before you; even the Happiness of those who come up to this Character. Wonderful, wonderful the Honours, which the true Servants of our SAVIOUR shall receive of His Eternal FATHER. My Father will honour them, saith our SAVIOUR.
But let us Enquire, What are the HONOURS, which GOD will bestow upon the Servants of our SAVIOUR?
Now, We might supersede all further Answer, with such a general one as that; 1 Cor. II. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath entered into the Heart of Man, the things which GOD ⟨p. 12⟩