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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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CERTAINLY, you are willing to know, what this Tree should be; what the Blessed Sweetener of all our bitter waters. And I make no Question, but that in your own Minds, you already apprehend, What, and Where and Who the Tree is, that I shall point you to. Truly, a CHRIST, a CHRIST, is what I must point you to. You did expect that I would point you thither. A Glorious CHRIST, is the Tree. Other Tree for the sweetening of our bitter waters, can no man tell of. The Tree that is to take out the bitterness from the Waters of Marah must be the Tree of Life; It can be no other than the Tree whereof we read, Rev. XXII. 2. The Tree of Life, which yields its Fruit every Month, and the leaves of the Tree are for the Healing of the Nations. The Beloved Man in the Visions of GOD, saw close by this Tree of Life, A pure ⟨p. 10⟩River of Water of Life proceeding out of the Throne of GOD, and of the Lamb. You may be sure, there was no bitterness in this water of Life. There is nothing but sweet water in this River of GOD. If the Tree of Life be near it, it must be so. But O Believer, can any thing but a CHRIST be the Tree of Life unto thee? There, There is the Tree! O Fly unto it, for the Cure of all the bitterness, which the Forbidden Tree has brought unto thee. But Behold How the Wonders grow upon us! Our SAVIOUR does then most of all prove the Tree of Life unto us, when we behold Him on the Tree of Death, which He was ••il'd unto. Tis a Crucified CHRIST that is the Tree of Life. I am determined to know and Preach nothing so much as this among you! The Cross of our SAVIOUR, that Cursed, Ragged, Wretched sort of a Tree; This is the Tree, which above all things, has the most Sovereign Virtue, to sweeten our bitter waters. The Cross on which, when our SAVIOUR cried out, I Thirst, they gave Him a Bitter Potion; They gave Him Vinegar dashed with Gall, to Drink; This will take out the Gall of every •up in the Thing appointed for us. By casting the Cross of our SAVIOUR into the Waters of Marah, Which is done by Meditations on a Crucified CHRIST, under all Embitterments, they will be Sweetened ⟨p. 11⟩unto Admiration. Let us a little enter into this Mystery of Godliness.