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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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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 ⟨p. 13⟩sweet. The bitter Austerities of Repentance, will become the sweetest Things in the World unto us.
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 annex'd 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 woful Relish which we have had, when we have put sweet for bitter, and bitter for