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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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Alluding unto this, my Observation shall be, That Sin, Sin, shall be considered as the Star that falls upon the Fountains of our Waters: This, as a Comet bears down upon us, and its Influences reach to the bottom of our Condition in the World. O Thou Star to be forever called Wormwood▪ It is thou that hast infused a bitterness into our whole Condition, and made our Waters as bitter as Wormwood. Yea, we Die, we Die of the Waters, because they are made so very bitter.
Alluding unto this, my Observation shall be, That Sin, Sin, shall be considered as the Star that falls upon the Fountains of our Waters: This, as a Comet bears down upon us, and its Influences reach to the bottom of our Condition in the World. O Thou Star to be forever called Wormwood▪ It is thou that hast infused a bitterness into our whole Condition, and made our Waters as bitter as Wormwood. Yea, we Dy, we Dy of the Waters, because they are made so very bitter.
BUT, What are the Bitter Waters of the Wilderness?
First, IN Repentance there are Bitter Waters which we must be brought unto. We •ead o•, Repentance to Salvation▪ without ⟨p. 6⟩Repentance there is no coming to Salvation. We cannot come to the Enjoyment of GOD, in the sinless Mansions, if we are not sorry for our Departure from GOD, and if we don't Bewail and Abhor and Forsake the sin which disqualifies us for those Holy Mansions. Now there is a bitterness of Soul, in that Contrition for Sin, which is in all true Repentance. Of true Penitents, there is this Account given;