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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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First. THE Bitter Waters of Repentance will be wonderfully Sweetened, when a CHRIST is well-applied unto us. Declare, O Soul in the bitter Anguish of Repentance; Will not the Hope and Joy of a Pardon mightily sweeten these bitter Waters? Yes The sense of a GOD Reconciled, will be so sweet a Thing, that it will even sweeten all the bitter Things that we can from any Quarter meet withal. Now, Repair to thy SAVIOUR, and Rely on the Sacrifice which he has offered up unto GOD, for the Expiation of the Sins which thou d•st Remember as the Wormwood and the Gall, thy Soul has them in Remembrance and is Humbled in thee. The Blood shed by thy SAVIOUR, in the Sufferings which He finished on the Cross, This Blood Cleanses from all sin. Plead this Blood; Plead it with Agony; Plead it with Dependence; Plead it with a most high Value for it, and a desire to have it Operate unto all the Sacred Intentions of it. There will hereupon come unto thee that Message from GOD; 2 Sam. XII. 13. The Lord has put away thy sin. Thy Song may now be, Lord, I will praise thee; For though thou wast Angry with me, thine Anger is turned away, and thou ••st comfort me.
AND now, What is become of the Bitter Waters? They are strangely Sweetened. The Sweet Hope & Joy of the Salvation of GOD; This gives to the Soul, the Consolations that are not small. The Soul cannot but be of good Cheer, when that Voice comes from GOD unto it, Child, Thy Sins are Forgiven thee! The bitter Herbs of the Passover, did they not lose their bitterness by the Paschal Lamb, which they were annexed unto! Repentance is a Diet of bitter Herbs; But there is this to sweeten it; CHRIST our Passover has been Sacrificed for us. Yea, more than This. A Soul thus Justified, will now be so Sanctified, that the very Exercise of Repentance itself, shall be beyond all expression sweet unto it. The Past of the Renewed Soul will be so altered, that it will find a Thousand times more sweetness in the Repenting of Sin, than ever it found in the Committing of Sin. Of Religion they that have tried it, bear this Testimony, All the ways of Wisdom are pleasant ways. Repentance is the most bitter Thing in Religion. But it is now found, that there is more Pleasure in Mourning for Sin, than there is in Acting of it. Tis a sweeter Thing by far, to Mortify a Lust, than it can be to Gratify it. Regeneration will bring such a change upon the woeful Relish which we have had, when we have put sweet for bitter, and bitter for