Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened

CERTAINLY our SAVIOUR saw the bitter Waters, when He Cried out, Save me, O GOD, For the Waters are come into my Soul. Will it not sweeten thy bitter Waters, to see, These are but such Things as my SAVIOUR, has before me tasted of! Compare thy Affliction, with what befell thy SAVIOUR, and see whether thine have not some evident Signatures of His upon it. What befalls thee, which did not after some sort, befall thy SAVIOUR, when He was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs? What Pains did He undergo in His Body? How meanly did He fare, when He had not an House where to lay His Head! How basely was He Despised and Rejected of Men, and made the Song of the ⟨p. 20⟩Drunkard? How Maltreated was He by the Rulers! How Reviled, Maligned, Murdered by the People! What horrible Temptations was He assaulted withal! Surely, 'Twill do much towards the sweetening of the bitter Waters, to consider, My Affliction makes my condition more like that of my Humbled SAVIOUR. Yea, The bitter Waters are to Kill thee, that is to say, To Kill all thy Evil Inclinations in thee; and make thee Dead indeed unto every Thing, but unto thy SAVIOUR; and make thee so Dead with CHRIST, that this World shall appear unto thee, as it does unto One a Dying upon a Cross. In this Death lies the Life of thy Soul. And as thou findest thy Killing Things to carry on this Death, in thee, thou hast more and more of an Astonishing Token for Good upon thee: Tis a Token, which will enable thee to say, Now I know that my SAVIOUR has Died for me: Now I know, that I shall come to all the Life which the Death of such a SAVIOUR can purchase for me. Yea, Now I know, there is a Life begun in me which no Death can ever give an Extinction to. Yea, a strange Thing will now come to pass; This Killed Servant of GOD, coming to•ly upon a Death Bed, when he goes to think, I have nothing to do but to Die, he is presently and pleasantly surprised into that Thought, No, Nor have I that neither, ⟨p. 21⟩I am Dead already! So he falls Asleep in JESUS. Thus the bitter Waters by their Killing of us, prove Waters of Life unto us. But Oh! how the Waters are sweetened by such a Transmutation!

CERTAINLY our SAVIOUR saw the bitter Waters, when He Cried out, Save me, O GOD, For the Waters are come into my Soul. Will it not sweeten thy bitter Waters, to see, These are but such Things as my SAVIOUR, has before me tasted of! Compare thy Affliction, with what befel thy SAVIOUR, and see whether thine have not some evident Signatures of His upon it. What befals thee, which did not after some sort, befal thy SAVIOUR, when He was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs? What Pains did He undergo in His Body? How meanly did He fare, when He had not an House where to lay His Head! How basely was He Despised and Rejected of Men, and made the Song of the