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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 wherein I most propose the Edification of the Survivors, is a short Account of the LAST HOURS that passed over him.
The Thomas Gualterus Tabifico Morbo extinctus, mentioned by Bartholinus, he must now be a Companion to. He lay many Months Languishing ⟨p. 28⟩of that English Disease, a Consumption: Wherein he over and over again went thorough that Process of Repentance, in which he made his just Reflections on all the Errors of a Vain Youth, which a disadvantageously Good Temper might have betrayed him to: Often saying, I have been a wretched Fool; the greatest Fool in the World! And he underwent the saving Work of the Holy SPIRIT in Repetitions of it; First exceedingly Convincing and Abasing of him; then showing him the Remedy provided for him in a SAVIOUR, and helping him to make his Flight unto it; and causing him thereupon to grow in his confirmed Resolutions to live unto GOD.
The Thomas Gualterus Tabifico Morbo extinctus, mention'd by Bartholinus, he must now be a Companion to. He lay many Months Languishing ⟨p. 28⟩of that English Disease, a Consumption: Wherein he over and over again went thorough that Process of Repentance, in which he made his just Reflections on all the Errors of a Vain Youth, which a disadvantageously Good Temper might have betray'd him to: Often saying, I have been a wretched Fool; the greatest Fool in the World! And he underwent the saving Work of the Holy SPIRIT in Repetitions of it; First exceedingly Convincing and Abasing of him; then shewing him the Remedy provided for him in a SAVIOUR, and helping him to make his Flight unto it; and causing him thereupon to grow in his confirmed Resolutions to live unto GOD.