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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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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.
The Repetitions of these Operations, did not hinder it, but that on the Day before he died, he had a Soul wonderfully distressed with Fears of his Miscarrying at the last: Saying, Oh! 'Tis a great Thing to Die!— Under these Distresses he importunately called for the Instructions and Assistances of One for whom he had some Deference; Who, in Conjunction with his Father, again set before him the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed GOD, which he had himself preached unto others. What passed shall not be now related; only one or two Passages it may not be amiss to mention. When it was urged upon him; You have been a notable Disputant in your Time; what they call a Logician: you have understood an Argument. I pray, what will you make of this Argument? The Proposition is; Our