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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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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.
His Ministry was notably calculated for THIS, above all Intentions; That a Glorious CHRIST may in the whole System and Business of the Christian Religion, be duly Acknowledged, and have a due Homage paid unto Him. And he pressed this Advice upon some Candidates of the Ministry, with whom he was acquainted; Preach CHRIST, my Friend, Preach CHRIST, as ⟨p. 27⟩much as ever you can. And the FATHER of our Glorious LORD, has put this Honour upon Him, that many of His People have expressed an Extraordinary Esteem for him; And more than Two or Three of his Acute Composures have been published. On the Last of these, I may make this Remark; That tho' it be composed with a great strength of Ratiocination, and be embellished with more than a little Erudition, yet he wrote with his own Hand, in a manner nothing of it: But Languishing under much Pain, and such Weakness as kept him on his Bed continually, it was all written from his Mouth, by the Pen of a beloved Friend, unto whom he dictated. A Specimen This, of those Intellectual Powers in him, which if he had lived, would have anon brought him into the Number of the famous Gualterus's and Waltherus's, that make a Figure in the Catalogue of Literators. And yet, these Powers were always beautified and varnished with a conspicuous Modesty in him, which caused him to assume unto himself no more, than if he had been, as Tertullian of old, (in imitation of the Apostles Elegance, in his Elachistoteros) elegantly called himself, Omnium Postremissimus.