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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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But that which makes him deserve to be remembered with the more Honour among us, is, That his Heart was fixed in his Purposes and Endeavours to employ all those Bright Abilities in the Service of CHRIST and for the Churches of This Country.
But that which makes him deserve to be remembred with the more Honour among us, is, That his Heart was fixed in his Purposes and Endeavours to employ all those Bright Abilities in the Service of CHRIST and for the Churches of This Country.
He was a strong Champion for those Doctrines of Grace, in which those Churches have been established; And a great Reader of the Books which assert those Doctrines; among which those of a Judicious OWEN had a special Relish with him; ever Lamenting, ever Confuting, the Things which he saw tending to Corrupt the young Minds of those that are under a Designation to feed the Flocks in the high Mountains of Israel.
To which I must add, That his faithful and steady Adherence to the Puritan Principles of Instituted Worship, and— What saith the Scripture?—was very considerable; when Temptations of, I know not what Glory, to desert them, could not seduce him to an Infamous Apostasy.