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.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.Non quicquam Sanctius habet Reverentia Superstitum, quam ut Amissos Venerabiliter recordetur.Auson.BOSTON: Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, near the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill, 1725.Title page of Christodulus. A good reward of a good servant. Or, The service of a glorious…, Boston, 1725Christodulus. A good reward of a good servant. Or, The service of a glorious…Cotton Mather, 1725

To my dear Brother, Mr. NEHEMIAH WALTER, Pastor of the first Church in Roxbury.

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To my dear Brother, Mr. NEHEMIAH WALTER, Pastor of the first Church in Roxbury.

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IT is mentioned among the Occurrences of a very sorrowful Time, A Man's Uncle shall take him up. It seems, upon a Young Man's Dying, 'tis looked for, that his Uncle should perform the part of a Father to him. I am now to do it, on the behalf of a desirable Young Man, who was to me not unlike what a Sisters Son was to Paul; and whose Death makes a sorrowful Time for us: Herein also an Uncle attempts to abate the Sorrows of a Father. And tho' no Word in any other Language can express, what the Hebrew has in its CHESED, for our Duty to the Dead; yet the Thing I am now in my poor way endeavouring.

IT is mentioned among the Occurrences of a very sorrowful Time, A Man's Uncle shall take him up. It seems, upon a Young Man's Dying, 'tis look'd for, that his Uncle should perform the part of a Father to him. I am now to do it, on the behalf of a desirable Young Man, who was to me not unlike what a Sisters Son was to Paul; and whose Death makes a sorrowful Time for us: Herein also an Uncle attempts to abate the Sorrows of a Father. And tho' no Word in any other Language can express, what the Hebrew has in its CHESED, for our Duty to the Dead; yet the Thing I am now in my poor way endeavouring.

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When the lovely Young Caesarius, the Son of the blessed Old Gregorius, died before his Father, Nazianzen in his Funeral Oration upon him, compared his Father unto an Aaron in the House of his GOD. I am sure, there is One thing in an Aaron, which is not unworthy of Your Imitation on this Occasion; As he was a great Sacrificer, so when a sad Thing befell his Family,

To my dear Brother, Mr. NEHEMIAH WALTER, Pastor of the first Church in Roxbury.

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To my dear Brother, Mr. NEHEMIAH WALTER, Pastor of the first Church in Roxbury.