What is "commender"

Usage examples of "commender".

For hence he is loved who is commended when the commender is believed to praise him with an unfeigned heart.

Nevertheless, because for Thy name’s sake which Thou hast sanctified throughout the earth, this, our vow and purpose, might also find commenders, it looked like a vaunting of oneself not to wait for the vacation, now so near, but to leave beforehand a public profession, and one, too, under general observation.

He is a great teacher, a corrector of morals, a censor of vice, and a commender of virtue.