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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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Secondly. THE Bitter Waters of Affliction will be wonderfully Sweetened, when a CHRIST is well-applied unto us. O Thou Afflicted and not Comforted, Converse much with a CHRIST, under thy Affliction, and thou wilt soon be Comforted. Thy Affliction comes to drive thee unto thy SAVIOUR. The Storms that beat upon thee, are to drive thee unto this Tree of GOD; The Tree whereof thou mayst sit under the shadow with Delight, and the Fruit be sweet unto thy taste. Especially, a CHRIST as Crucified, is now to be conversed withal. Thy Affliction is the Cross which thy SAVIOUR has assigned unto thee. Go with it unto the Cross which thy SAVIOUR has endured for thee. Throw as much as thou canst of this Tree into thy bitter Waters. 'Twill so sweeten them, that all the bitterness thereof shall be to thee, but as Waters that pass away. One very deeply concerned with bitter Waters, being able to say, I have poured out my Soul unto the Lord; It is Reported, She was no more sad. Going to the Lord with the Out-pourings of thy Soul, thou wilt put that into the bitter Waters, by the means whereof, thou mayest be no more sad. Thou mayst now ⟨p. 14⟩say, Call me not Marah, but call me Naomi for I am very pleasantly accommodated. It was an Uncomfortable Moan, Lam. I. 16. I weep, mine Eye, mine Eye runneth down with water. And whence these bitter Waters! Because the Comforter that should relieve my Soul is far from me. But now, if in thy Adversity, thou dost Converse much with a CHRIST, the Comforter that will relieve thy Soul, is nigh to thee. So there is no cause, no room for the bitter Waters.
Secondly. THE Bitter Waters of Affliction will be wonderfully Sweetened, when a CHRIST is well-applied unto us. O Thou Afflicted and not Comforted, Converse much with a CHRIST, under thy Affliction, and thou wilt soon be Comforted. Thy Affliction comes to drive thee unto thy SAVIOUR. The Storms that beat upon thee, are to drive thee unto this Tree of GOD; The Tree whereof thou mayst sit under the shadow with Delight, and the Fruit be sweet unto thy tast. Especially, a CHRIST as Crucified, is now to be conversed withal. Thy Affliction is the Cross which thy SAVIOUR has assign'd unto thee. Go with it unto the Cross which thy SAVIOUR has endured for thee. Throw as much as thou canst of this Tree into thy bitter Waters. 'Twill so sweeten them, that all the bitterness thereof shall be to thee, but as Waters that pass away. One very deeply concerned with bitter Waters, being able to say, I have poured out my Soul unto the Lord; It is Reported, She was no more sad. Going to the Lord with the Out-pourings of thy Soul, thou wilt put that into the bitter Waters, by the means whereof, thou mayest be no more sad. Thou mayst now