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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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We will make one prefatory Remark on the Honours, which GOD will bestow upon the Servants of our SAVIOUR; They will be such Honours, and so bestowed, that the Glorious GOD Himself shall be honoured in them. There is a Difference between those two; Joh. XII. 43. The praise of Men, and, The praise of GOD. The most of Men, if they honour us, and admire us, and applaud us, they terminate in the Creature; they look no further than us; GOD has not His Praises on the Occasion; GOD, without whom, and before whom, we are Nothing, is not Remembered. All comes to Nothing, in Remembrances of none but Ashes! A sacrilegious Idolatry is committed. A true Servant of our SAVIOUR, even deprecates it as an Infelicity, to be made the Object in this Idolatry. He had rather be left unconsidered, in the World. Yea, when he meets with Indignities from an ungodly Generation, it sweetens them unto him, to think, I am delivered from the Danger of being made an Idol among the Robbers of GOD. Yea, Oh! why should we not press after the high Flight of Nierembergius, who writes at this rate; Lord, I had rather, could it be without Sin, that all should hate me, than that they should love me for my self. If all the World hate ⟨p. 13⟩me, I should have but what is Mine. If they should love me for my self, they would usurp what is Thine. This I will say, A true Servant of CHRIST will be loth to receive any Honours, of which he cannot see, that GOD and His CHRIST is honoured in them. Such Dispositions may be derided as fanciful & whimsical Ecstasies, But, O my Soul, do thou press after them, and rest not until thou arrive to more Perfection in them!
We will make one prefatory Remark on the Honours, which GOD will bestow upon the Servants of our SAVIOUR; They will be such Honours, and so bestow'd, that the Glorious GOD Himself shall be honoured in them. There is a Difference between those two; Joh. XII. 43. The praise of Men, and, The praise of GOD. The most of Men, if they honour us, and admire us, and applaud us, they terminate in the Creature; they look no further than us; GOD has not His Praises on the Occasion; GOD, without whom, and before whom, we are Nothing, is not Remembred. All comes to Nothing, in Remembrances of none but Ashes! A sacrilegious Idolatry is committed. A true Servant of our SAVIOUR, even deprecates it as an Infelicity, to be made the Object in this Idolatry. He had rather be left unconsidered, in the World. Yea, when he meets with Indignities from an ungodly Generation, it sweetens them unto him, to think, I am delivered from the Danger of being made an Idol among the Robbers of GOD. Yea, Oh! why should we not press after the high Flight of Nierembergius, who writes at this rate; Lord, I had rather, could it be without Sin, that all should hate me, than that they should love me for my self. If all the World hate