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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
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THE Waters of Marah SWEETENED. Upon the Death of that Hopeful Young Gentleman, Captain JOSIAH WINSLOW.
Exodus XV. 25. He Cried unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a Tree, which when he had cast into the Waters, the Waters were made Sweet.
Exodus XV. 25. He Cried unto the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a Tree, which when he had cast into the Waters, the Waters were made Sweet.
MOST certainly, the Best Course that ever could be taken; To cry unto the Lord. It was the Best Man then Living in the World, by whom it was taken. It was a MOS•S, who still took it, when Bitter Things were dispensed unto him.
THE People under his Conduct Expected Waters, upon their first entrance into the Arabian Wilderness through' which they were to pass unto the Promised Land. But the Waters which they found, proved Bitter ones: Even such as Procured hereupon the Name of Marah, to be given them. I do not suppose these to be the Bitter Fountains that Pliny speaks of; According to Strabo, those were on the other side of the Red-Sea. But they seem to be of the same Nature with 'em. The Spirits of the People, were as Bitter as the Waters which they came to. Whatever grievous Things they meet withal a Moses must be Barbarously, Unreasonably, Unaccountably Murmured at. But the Murmurs of an Absurd and Froward People, against this Excellent Man, only excite his Prayers to the Glorious GOD. Behold, How his Prayers are answered GOD by special Inspiration & Revelation directed him to a Tree; the casting whereof into the Waters, took away the Brackish Tang of them, and marvellously sweetened them. What the Tree was, 'tis unknown, because untold unto us. Doubtless, it was not Naturally, but Miraculously that so sweetening a Virtue issued from it. And no doubt, the Waters continued sweet forever after it. But whatever we may be uncertain of, the Figurative Importance of the Tree, can Labour under no uncertainty