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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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HOW does a CHRIST Conversed withal sweeten the bitter Waters to you? I remember what we read concerning the Afflicted People of GOD, [For so it should be read,] Isa. •XIII. 9. In all their Affliction, there was […] Affliction. O you that are of a sorrowful Spirit, Let a CHRIST be Conversed withal, ⟨p. 15⟩and it shall be said of all your Affliction, There are no bitter Waters in it.
HOW does a CHRIST Conversed withal sweeten the bitter Waters to you? I remember what we read concerning the Afflicted People of GOD, [For so it should be read,] Isa. •XIII. 9. In all their Affliction, there was 〈…〉 Affliction. O you that are of a sorrowful Spirit, Let a CHRIST be Conversed withal, ⟨p. 15⟩and it shall be said of all your Affliction, There are no bitter Waters in it.
First, IN Affliction a CHRIST Conversed withal, will take the Curse out of the bitter Waters. They were bitter Waters indeed, which of old Conveyed a Curse unto them, who had not been wronged in a Jealousy of their Adulteries. Truly, when Affliction comes upon us, we have bitter Waters in it, if it brings a Curse with it, and if it proceed from such a Wrath of GOD, as comes on the Children of Disobedience, and if it comes merely to Execute a Vengeance of Heaven upon us. Oh! most bitter Waters! But now, in a CHRIST Conversed withal, we shall see, this Curse taken out of our Affliction, by our SAVIOUR. He has bore the Curse of it, when He was made a Curse for us. O Child of Affliction, Embrace the SAVIOUR who makes a Tender of Himself unto thee; put thy self under His Conduct; entreat of the Glorious GOD, that for the sake of the Atonement which He has made, Thy sins which are many may be forgiven to thee. Now GOD is not in thy Affliction, only with a Punitive Justice Revenging Himself upon thee. Now the Affliction comes from a GOD, who Propounds to Convey Blessings unto thee with it. Now, in all thy Affliction, thy SAVIOUR is fulfilling