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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To the Honourable Col. Isaac Winslow, And his Religious CONSORT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AMONG the Brethren that come to Comfort You, here is One who is Your Brother in Adversity; and who just before You, had the Premature Death of His Eldest Son, to add unto the Embitterments of his Pilgrimage. And he comes to Comfort you, in your Trouble by the Comfort, wherewith he has himself been Comforted of GOD; and invite You to join with him, in the Songs, which he has and Sings, In the House of his Pilgrimage.
AMONG the Brethren that come to Comfort You, here is One who is Your Brother in Adversity; and who just before You, had the Praemature Death of His Eldest Son, to add unto the Embitterments of his Pilgrimage. And he comes to Comfort you, in your Trouble by the Comfort, wherewith he has himself been Comforted of GOD; and invite You to join with him, in the Songs, which he has and Sings, In the House of his Pilgrimage.
YOUR Dear Son had a GRAND-FATHER, who was the Beauty and Safety of his Country; and the General of all the Forces wherewith our United Colonies performed the most Martial Exploit that ever was done in our Land. He had a GREAT-GRAND-FATHER, who was One of the Finest Men that ever shone in these Plantations; and who having done more than any man for the Animation and Preservation of the First Adventures hither, advanced from […] D•, and then to Die, in a larger ⟨image ?⟩Field abroad for the Good of the English Empire. Both of them, GOVERNORS.
YOUR Dear Son had a GRAND-FATHER, who was the Beauty and Safety of his Country; and the General of all the Forces wherewith our United Colonies performed the most Martial Exploit that ever was done in our Land. He had a GREAT-GRAND-FATHER, who was One of the Finest Men that ever shone in these Plantations; and who having done more than any man for the Animation and Preservation of the First Adventures hither, advanced from 〈…〉 D•, and then to Dy, in a larger ⟨image ?⟩