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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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A promising STEVENS, and HOLBROKE, and PIERPONT, and THOMPSON, and some others, may thus take the Wings of the Morning, and in the Morning of their Youth, take their Flight unto the Blissful Regions. But if they and their short-lived Brethren might speak from thence, they would certainly say unto us, O serve the Glorious LORD, and never count any Service too much to be done for Him. No Man shall be a Loser by any Service he does for Him! 'Tis impossible for any one to make too early a Dedication of himself unto the Service of this Glorious LORD. All the Labours, and all the Sorrows, and all the sad Things, which must be undergone in the Service, are abundantly Recompensed in this Glorious World. One Hour here makes amends for all.
A promising STEVENS, and HOLBROKE, and PIERPONT, and THOMPSON, and some others, may thus take the Wings of the Morning, and in the Morning of their Youth, take their Flight unto the Blissful Regions. But if they and their short-liv'd Brethren might speak from thence, they would certainly say unto us, O serve the Glorious LORD, and never count any Service too much to be done for Him. No Man shall be a Loser by any Service he does for Him! 'Tis impossible for any one to make too early a Dedication of himself unto the Service of this Glorious LORD. All the Labours, and all the Sorrows, and all the sad Things, which must be undergone in the Service, are abundantly Recompensed in this Glorious World. One Hour here makes amends for all.
In the mean time, we will greatly Lament the Loss therein sustained by our Churches, and the ⟨p. 25⟩Dark Signs of the Times, in such Eclipses. Yea, we will speak of them in our Lamentations. It would be a worse than a Stoical Apathy to do otherwise.
Among those who have begun to do some Service for our Glorious LORD, and have been singularly Furnished for it, but might not be suffered to continue in it by reason of Death, I know not why a Modest Commemoration may not be allowed unto Mr. THOMAS WALTER; Who had not passed Four times Seven Years of a Pilgrimage, before a Period unto all Prospect of any further Service from him here, is hastened upon him.