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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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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; Zech. XII. 10. They shall be in bitterness. In Sin we venture upon Stolen Waters; and these at first are sweet unto us. But in Repentance, they must be changed into bitter Waters. The sweetest Pleasures of Sin, must become very bitter, in the Reflections that Repentance is to make upon them. After we have Drunk in Iniquity like water, it will by Repentance rise in our Stomach, and become then as bitter as Gall unto us. One who had wallowed in much Unchastity, was brought by Repentance to say, I find it more bitter than Death unto me! Of one come unto Repentance we read, Mat. XXVI. 75. He wept bitterly. The Tears of Repentance are bitter Waters. With a Repenting Soul, we are to look back and s•e, I have sinned, and I have done very […] See, I have sinned, and I have denied […] GOD that is above! See, I have sinned, and I […] my own soul! Tis with an Unspeakable bitterness that we are to look back ⟨p. 7⟩upon it. Sinner, Thy Wickedness, it is bitter; So it must be, when it reaches to thy Heart, in thy Resentments of it. Alas, Thou art in the Gall of bitterness, until Repentance render thy Sins more bitter than any Gall unto thee.