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heart_n	contrite_a	humble_a	revive_v	2,916	5	11.4354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93404	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.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4189A; Thomason E1624_1; ESTC R208959	212,879	567

and then may do a Char for a meals meat These can claim nothing as due in regard they are not in Covenant but are hang bies They cannot claim protection from the Master of the Family as a Covenant-servant may as David did Save me ●s 119.94 for I am thy servant and I keep thy Commandements It is a certain mark of a Servant of God to keep the Commandments of God if thou keep not the Commandments of God thou art no servant of God God takes no more pleasure in rebellious sinners then a Prince doth in rebellious Traitors Let us then use this reason and argument to move the Lord to pitty and compassion and to be pacified towards us even because we are his Servants and are in covenant with him Ver. 14. O fill us with thy Mercy in the Morning that we may rejoice and be glad all our daies IN the former Verse wee have heard how earnestly Moses and the people of God beg for Reconciliation againe with God and the arguments they use to move him to take pitty and compassion upon them Now in this fourteenth verse and so to the end of the Psalm they come to beg the blessed Fruits and Estates of this Reconciliation And first they pray for Mercy O fill us with thy mercy That is that God would grant them the lively sence and feeling of his love again towards them And in this request of theirs we have two parts 1. The Petition it self O fill us with c. 2. The end of their desire That we may rejoice c. 1. The Petition is of mercy and this is amplified 1. By the quantity of it Satisfie us or fill us It is a great measure that they require according to their great misery and need 2. By the time viz. In the Morning That is as I take it with speed or presently after their Night of their long and tedious afflictions or else in time convenient as some expound it 2d Part of the Verse is the Reason or the end why they so earnestly desire this lively sense and feeling of his love again towards them viz. Not to grow secure thereby as carnall men do● Nor yet to abuse it to carnall and worldly rejoicing as libertines use to do But to this end that feeling the love of God shed abroad in their souls they might have matter of joy and rejoycing to praise God that so they might be joyful and chearful in his service And that not for a day or a year but all our daies Where first of all we are to observe ● Coher their order proceeding in this prayer of theirs In the former verse they pray for Reconciliation again with God that he would pardon their rebellions and sins and receive them again into favour Return O Lord c. And now in this verse they pray for the blessed fruit of that Reconciliation viz. the comfortable feeling thereof in their souls O fill us with thy mercy c. The Doctrine is Doct. 1 That untill a man repent of his sins No comfort but in reconciliation with God Esay 57.20 21. and be reconciled to God he can have no true peace joy or rejoycing in his own Soul There is no peace to the wicked but they are like the troubled Sea that casts forth mire and dirt Thus will the conscience of wicked men rage and accuse them and cast up many thoughts of fears and desperation but can find no comfort till they be reconciled to God It is true wicked men have a kind of Drunken peace or rather indeed a Damnable security which Iob compares to a Dream Iob 20.7 And to the crackling of thornes under a pot soon in and soon out which is wonderfull in three respects 1. It is uncertain their Sun many times goes down at noon day As Nebuchadnezzar in the midst of his banquet had his mirth mar'd 2. It is unsound it is somtimes in the face but not in the heart For in the midst of laughter the heart is sad 3. The joy and rejoycing of the wicked doth end in misery Mal. 2.2 The Lord curseth their blessings though they may seem right to themselves yet the issue thereof is death Prov 16.25 Whereas it is the godly that enjoy sound and lasting peace joy and comfort It being grounded and founded upon this sure foundation Repentance for sin and Reconciliation to God What way sought David for comfort when Nathan had convinced him of his sin but by flying unto God by true repentance Wash me clense me purge me Ps 51.8 and then make me to hear the voice of joy and gladnesse This is Gods way of dealing ordinarily with his people as the ground of all true comfort Comfort ye Es 40.1 2. comfort ye my people saith our God speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem But how shall they be comforted The Lord tells them there Cry unto her that her iniquity is pa●doned Sin pardoned brings true comfort and indeed there can be no true comfort nor peace till then How doth Christ comfort the man sick of the Palsey Mar. 2.3 but by telling him that his sins were forgiven him And thus Christ raised up Mary that sat weeping and blubbering at Christs feet by telling her that her sins were forgiven her So that the point is clear that till a man have repented of his sins and be reconciled to God and have embraced Christ he can have no true peace and comfort in his own soule And it must needs be so Because it is the nature of sin unpardoned Reas 1 to rob the soul of peace That man that truly knowes sin and the wofull fruites and effects of sin cannot but account the pardon of sin the greatest mercy When had this people peace but when they had left Aegypt the Wildernesse the Red-Sea and the Mountains behinde them And when shall a Christian look for peace but when his spirituall enemies sin and sathan are overcome Secondly Reas 2 such as truly repent of their sins and imbrace Christ God hath promised to look upon and shew mercy unto Es 66.2 To this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit And Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted And again Es 57.15 Thus saith the high and loftie one that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones These are they God hath promised to look upon and to have respect unto to give them beautie for ashes Es 61.3 and the oyle of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse This then lets us see the happie priviledge of the faithfull Use 1 above all wicked and ungodly men in their greatest sorrowes there is still ground of joy Joh. 16.20 Ye shall weep saith Christ but your

Hee that must shortly part with his house and home must away into another Country will be so wise as to turne his lumber into Silver and Gold that he may have somthing to live upon when he is gone Mat. 6.19 Lay not up for your selves treasures on earth saith Christ where moth and rust doth corrupt and where theeves breake thorough and steal But lay up for your selves treasures in heaven c. Christ commends Maries choice that she had chosen the better part Luk. 10. she sat at Christs feete she heard his heavenly doctrine Whilest Martha was busie for the body Mary provided for h●r soule what if Martha had let the pott seeth over for that time it had been a very tollerable neglect but now Mary carries the praise the lord knowes we have many Marthas few Maries for almost all be for the world looke after their bodies few for heaven that take care for their pretious Soule Vers 13. Returne O Lord How long let it repent thee concerning thy Servants MOses this man of God having in the former v. prayed unto God that he would teach them by his spirit to make the right use of the shortness and uncertaintie of their life Now he proceeds to make prayer unto God for himselfe and the rest of Gods people for favor and mercy And all the petitions of his prayer are either for Reconciliation to God or else For the fruits of their reconciliation to God In this 13. v. they pray for reconciliation that he would in mercy Returne againe unto them and be pacified againe toward them In the verses following they pray for the frui●s of this reconciliation as 1. For the comfortable feeling of Gods love and favour againe towards them which they had broken off by their sinnes v. 14. 2. They pray for comfort against their miseries and long afflictions vers 15. 3. For defence and protection and the blessing of God upon their labours and endeavours especially in their journey towards the land of Canaan that God would defend them from their enemies and bring them at last into that promised land Returne O Lord. In this first petition and request wee are to note two things 1. What they pray for viz. Reconciliation with God Returne O Lord let it repent thee 2. And for this purpose they use 2. Arguments or Reasons to move the Lord to take pitty on them and to be favorable unto them 1. Taken from the continnance of their afflictions which were both long and tedious and very sharp and grievous How long shall we lie boyling in the furnace of affliction and how long wilt thou be angry with us 2. From their estate and condition we are thy Servants O then bee gratious unto thy Servants be not for ever angry with thy owne Servants but receive us into thy favour be reconciled againe unto us And turne away thy wrath and displeasure from us Returne O Lord q d. Although for our sins thou hast justly turned thy face from us and been angry with us yet be thou in mercy reconciled to us againe shew us thy favour and remove thy heavie hand For as the Lord is said to turne his back and to hide his face when he takes away the tokens of his gracious love and presence from a people even so when he doth manifest the signes of his love and gratious presence unto a people then is he said to returne againe Whence we may observe first of all when Moses and the people of God doe seeke unto God for mercy and reconcilation viz. when they have been well whipped in the school of affliction and humbled and tamed by the Lords corrections upon them for their fins We observe Doct. 1 Men never seek to God forreconciliation till they feel his displeasure That men wil never seek unto God for reconciliation untill such time as the Lord hath truly and thoroughly humbled them and caused them to feel his anger displeasure for sin staborn rebellious and hard hearted sinners will never truly seek unto God till such time as the Lord hath broken their hearts with the apprehension of their miserable estate by reason of sin and that they come to feele Gods terrible anger and displeasure against them for the same The Lord knowes that these hearts of ours are many times so hard that our greatest sins have little effect upon our souls to work that godly sorrow and humiliation as our sins have deserved But when the Lord shal be pleased to bring a sinner to the rack and there lay weight upon weight upon him and to the weight of his sins add the weight of his anger and sore afflictions this dealing of the lord with a poore sinner many times causes such a stream of teares which bathe the soul in the water of true repentance and bring the sinner to a heartie confession of his sins how were Iacobs sons wrought upon by their troubles in Egypt that their sin against their innocent brother selling him for a bondslave should lye hid for many yeares together should now come to conscience Gen. 42.21 We have sinned against our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besough● us and we would not heare him therefore is this trouble come vpon us And thus David when the hand of God lay heavy upon him day and night then and not till then he flyes to God and by humble confession of his sins begs pardon at Gods hand Ps 32.4 5. I acknowledged my sin unto thee neither hid I mine iniquitie for I thought I will confesse against my self my wickednesse Es 26.16 and then thou forgavest the punishment of my sin The scriptures are cleare in this Lord in trouble have they visited thee they poured forth their prayers whe● thy chastisments were upon them and againe they being bound in affliction Ps 107.10 13 14. and Iron cried unto the Lord in their affliction and distresse Yea this is that which the Lord himselfe speaketh of stubborn and hard hearted siners Hof 5.14 15. I will be unto Ephraim as a lyon and as a young lion to the house of Iudah c. till they acknowledg their offence for in their affliction they will seeke me early So that miserable rebellious and hard hearted sinners will never seeke unto God till such time as he hath exercised them with the sense and apprehension of his terrible anger against sin besides the examples the scriptures afford us are many as Manasses 2 Chron. 33.10 11. the prodigall the jaylor and those cruell Jews Reas 1 Such only are capable of mercy from God when in the sense of their owne misery and apprehension of Gods displeasure they become fit objects of mercy full vessells can hold no liquor and proud and haughtie hearts are not fit for mercy Es 57.15 He will revive the spirit of the humble and revive the heart of the contri●e ones When our hearts are subdued