Moses his prayer. Or, An exposition of the nintieth Psalme.: In which is set forth, the frailty and misery of mankind; most needfull for these times. Wherein [brace] 1. The sum and scope. 2. The doctrines. 3. The reasons. 4. The uses of most texts are observed. / By Samuel Smith, minister of the Gospel, author of Davids repentance and the Great assize, and yet living.
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Moses his prayer. Or, An exposition of the nintieth Psalme.: In which is set forth, the frailty and misery of mankind; most needfull for these times. Wherein [brace] 1. The sum and scope. 2. The doctrines. 3. The reasons. 4. The uses of most texts are observed. / By Samuel Smith, minister of the Gospel, author of Davids repentance and the Great assize, and yet living.
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Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.
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London :: Printed by W. Wilson, and are to be sold at his house in Well yard, neare West-Smithfield,
1656.
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"Moses his prayer. Or, An exposition of the nintieth Psalme.: In which is set forth, the frailty and misery of mankind; most needfull for these times. Wherein [brace] 1. The sum and scope. 2. The doctrines. 3. The reasons. 4. The uses of most texts are observed. / By Samuel Smith, minister of the Gospel, author of Davids repentance and the Great assize, and yet living." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93404.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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According to the days where in thou hast afflictedius.
WHen once the days of sorrowes and times of afflictions are o∣ver, gone, and past,
[Doct. 4] they seeme but a few dayes. According to the dayes. &c. The Apostle calls our afflictions light and momentary. And God indureth but a while in Anger. Heavinesse may indure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. And the reasons why they esteemed their affliction short and but for a few dayes, are,
Was because they had deserved great and more tedious Calamities,
[Reas. 1] in regard of the greatnesse of their sins, and the Hainousnesse of their rebellions.
Though afflictions seem to be long whilest we are under them,
[Reas. 2] it is the na∣ture of present comfort, to swallow up the thoughts of them, as Jacob when he served Laban s••aven years, when he in∣joyed his Rachel, they seemed unto him but a few dayes.
Which should serve for our instructi∣on,
[Vse.] that if the Lord lay many and great afflictions upon us, and that a long time
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together, to consider that the Lord might have laid a thousand times more for our sins: and the joyes of their life to come will quickly swallow up the remembrance of them all, so as we are with one eye to looke unto Gods mer∣cy, that our afflictions are no sorer and that our comforts at last will sur∣mount them all, as with the other eye to looke upon our present sufferings how bitter soever.
Notes
Afflicti∣ons past seeme but a few dayes. 2 Cor. 4 19. Ps. 30.6.