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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 said, I shall be the most Glorious Instance of Sovereign Grace in all Heaven! And he added, I have no more to do here; but I shall Serve and Glorify CHRIST to all Eternity! And then, Lord, Now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace.
He laid mighty Charges on some Young Persons that were near him; To fear GOD, and prize His CHRIST Betimes; and by no means to delay Repentance one Day longer: For the longer they delayed it, the more Backward they would ⟨p. 31⟩find themselves unto it. He said; They might think, that for them to engage in the Ways of PIETY, would be to abandon all Joy and Pleasure; but this is a great Mistake: Let them try the Practice of it, and it will never be Repented of.
He laid mighty Charges on some Young Persons that were near him; To fear GOD, and prize His CHRIST Betimes; and by no means to delay Repentance one Day longer: For the longer they delay'd it, the more Backward they would ⟨p. 31⟩find themselves unto it. He said; They might think, that for them to engage in the Ways of PIETY, would be to abandon all Joy and Pleasure; but this is a great Mistake: Let them try the Practice of it, and it will never be Repented of.
When the Morning of the Lords Day [Jan. 10.] arrived, he expressed an Expectation, that He should be That Day in Paradise. His Father told him, I am going to the House of GOD, which is the Gate of Heaven; but I hope, You are going to Heaven it self, to join with the Assembly Above. He replied, O! I love that Glorious Church! His Father added, I am going also to the Table of the Lord; but I hope, You are going to Drink of the Fruit of the Vine New with CHRIST in the Kingdom of his Father. He replied, O! And without Price! At Noon, his Father going to the Afternoon Service, and supposing that he should not (as he did not) see him any more, took his Farewell of him, in those Words; My Child, The Lord JESUS receive thy Spirit. The Echo from him to it was,— And the Lord fit it for His Reception! He continued in Heaven-ward Aspirations, till towards the close of the Afternoon Service, when he fell a smiling: And one asking him the Reason of it, he only made an Unintelligible Answer, which intimated as if an admirable Consort, in Singing the Praises of his Redeemer now entertained him. So he expired; which I doubt not at all to express in the Terms