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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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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.
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 allow'd 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.
I am not without Apprehension, that it may be some small Service unto the Best Interests, for me to take a brief Notice of something that may render his Memory Valuable, and something that may render it Profitable, to us.