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Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened
Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deplorable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the premature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deporable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the praemature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1725
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To the Honourable Col. Isaac Winslow, And his Religious CONSORT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
BUT our Sovereign GOD has Determined it, That all shall be comprised in this one Action; To lay down his Life in the Service of his Country: The Spark that was Mounting Upwards, and we knew not what Lustre he might anon arrive unto, must only give this Coup•d' Eclat, and fall down into the common Heap of Ashes: And instead of proceeding Master of Arts, as if he had Lived a Few Weeks more he would have done, receive the Laurel of, One who Died Fighting the Battles of the Lord.
BUT our Sovereign GOD has Determined it, That all shall be comprised in this one Action; To lay down his Life in the Service of his Country: The Spark that was Mounting Upwards, and we knew not what Lustre he might anon arrive unto, must only give this Coup•d' Eclat, and fall down into the common Heap of Ashes: And instead of proceeding Master of Arts, as if he had Lived a Few Weeks more he would have done, receive the Laurel of, One who Died Fighting the Battels of the Lord.
THIS Alone is enough to bespeak a Grateful Commemoration of him; which is accordingly now endeavoured. But, how to Support You, that under so great a Loss, You may not be utterly Inconsolable, I know no better way, than to throw in, what I am here going to cast into the Bitter Waters. And hereupon, in Offering the Sacrifice, whereto GOD is now calling You, I hope, He will help You to Do Wondrously.
THAT the Consolations of GOD may not be small unto You, is the Hearts Desire and Prayer, of