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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, Returning back to an Evil World, whereof any one that has a Good Hope through Grace of a Better, must say, Woe is me that I Sojourn in it!—I know not what better Testimony to bring unto my Fellow-Travellers than This, Get as Near to a Glorious CHRIST, and as Full of Him, as ever you can; Oh! the Peace, Oh! the Joy, which you will find This to be the way of having your Souls Replenished withal Oh! The Abundance of Consolations, with which it may be hoped, a Gracious CHRIST will irradiate your Minds! The Bitter Waters of Sickness, you will hardly Taste them! The Unkind Aspect of Neighbours, will not be uneasy to you. The Hissing of Serpents Crawling in the Dark about the Streets, will give you no Disturbance. Death itself will no longer be the King of Terrors; but be Smiled on, be Closed with, be Longed for ⟨p. 25⟩You will keep Singing the Songs of the Lord in a strange Land, And long to be got further up into the Tree, that so Sweetens all your Circumstances.
AND now, Returning back to an Evil World, whereof any one that has a Good Hope through Grace of a Better, must say, Wo is me that I S•journ in it!—I know not what better Testimony to bring unto my Fellow-Travellers than This, Get as Near to a Glorious CHRIST, and as Full of Him, as ever you can; Oh! the Peace, Oh! the Joy, which you will find This to be the way of having your Souls Replenished withal• Oh! The Abundance of Consolations, with which it may be hoped, a Gracious CHRIST will irradiate your Minds! The Bitter Waters of Sickness, you will hardly Tast them! The Unkind Aspect of Neighbours, will not be uneasy to you. The Hissing of Serpents Crawling in the Dark about the Streets, will give you no Disturbance. Death itself will no longer be the King of Terrors; but be Smiled on, be Closed with, be Longed for ⟨p. 25⟩You will keep Singing the Songs of the Lord in a strange Land, And long to be got further up into the Tree, that so Sweetens all your Circumstances.