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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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Epitaph. JOSIAH WINSLOW.
Dulce, pro Patria Mori. His Ancestors did for their Country Live: He'll of his Love a further Token give. Hopeless beyond Them in a Life to fly, He for his Country takes the way to Dy. Ti•••o res digna Sepul•hri.
Dulce, pro Patria Mori. His Ancestors did for their Country Live: He'el of his Love a further Token give. Hopeless beyond Them in a Life to fly, He for his Country takes the way to Dy. Ti•••o res digna Sepul•hri.
MANTISSA. A Copy of a LETTER Sent unto Colonel WINSLOW, and his Consort, from a Minister at some Distance from them, on the first Advice of the Green-Island Tragedy. Here Published for the Benefit of some others in the like Circumstances.
My Friends, IN the general Condolence with You, upon the Sorrow, which You have lately met withal, I take a very Particular Share, and think it my▪ Duty to give you some Expressions of it. BUT how can I better express it, than in my earnest Supplications, which I therefore make to the Glorious Lord, that he would enable You to Glorify him in the Sacrifice, which he now calls You to? IF not a Bird of the Air falls to the Earth without the Will of our Heavenly Father; You may be sure that the Child Hatched under your tender Wing, is not fallen without the Will of Heaven Ordering of it. And You cannot have a better Proof that you are the Children of GOD, than by Your Patient Submission to his Will on such an Occasion; and your Submissive saying, The Cup which my Father has given me, shall not I Drink it? The Cup which is now given You indeed is Bitter enough; But if the sense of the