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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Contents
- title page
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TO THE TRVLY RELIGIOUS, And his much honored Friend M
r SAMUEL FREBORNE, and his Religious Consort inPrittlewell inEssex; The Author wisheth the increase of all Happinesse, Tem∣porall and Eternall. - To the Christian Reader.
- The XC Psalme.
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MOSES His PRAYER. Or, An Exposition of the Nintieth PSALM.
- title of prayer
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Ver. 1.
Lord thou hast been our dwel∣ing place in all generations. -
Ver. 2.
Before the mountains were made, or ever thou hadst for med the earth, or the world, even from ever∣lasting to everlasting thou art God. -
Ver. 3.
Thou turnest man to destracti∣on, and sayest, Return again ye children of men. -
Ver. 4.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when it is past as a Watch in the Night. -
Ver. 5, 6.Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as sleep; in the morning they are as grasse which groweth up, in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. -
Ver. 7.
For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. -
Verse 8.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. -
V. 9.
For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath, we spend our years as a tale that is told. -
Ver. 10.
The daies of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength but la∣bour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. -
Ver. 11.
Who knoweth the power of thy Anger: even according to thy fear, So is thy wrath. -
Vers. 12.
Teach us O Lord to Number our dayes, that mee may apply our herts to wisdome. -
Vers. 13.
Returne O Lord, How long? let it repent thee concerning thy Servants. -
Ver. 14.
O fill us with thy Mercy in the Morning, that we may rejoice and be glad all our daies. -
Ver. 15.
Make us glad, according to the daies, wherein thon hast afflict∣ed us: And the years wherein we have seen evill. -
ver. 16.
Let thy worke appeare unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. -
ver. 17.
And let the beautie of the Lord our God be upon us, and stablish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
- A Table of the principall Doctrines contained in this Book.