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A MEDITATION.

Let our Meditation upon what hath been delivered, be what Moses hath prompted to us; and let us make the same use thereof which he also did.

LEt our Meditation upon what hath been delivered, be what Moses hath prompted to us; and let us make the same use thereof which he also did.

The 90th Psalm was penned by Moses, (as the Title shows, A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God,) and it was composed by him in his latter days, after he had seen in forty years, an whole Generation in a Nation of Men removed out of this World, and their Carcasses fallen in the Wilderness; a Spectacle so sad, as perhaps not any one Man in the World hath seen, or Age afforded, (but at the Flood) afore or since, in so short a compass of time. His Song is a Funeral Elegy, or Meditation of Death, made upon that whole Generation, verse 3. ⟨p. 201⟩Thou turnest Man to Destruction; and sayest, Return, ye Children of Men. And verses 5, 6. Thou carriest them away, as with a Flood. In the morning they are like Grass which groweth up; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. And God from that time began also to stint and limit Man's years to that measure which it hath held to unto this day. Vers. 10. The Days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of Strength they be fourscore years, yet is their Strength Labour and Sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Our Souls fly away like Birds when the Shell is broke; and then Hell follows, (as the Revelation speaks) as in reality, so in ¹Moses's Discourse. And that was it which was the matter of deepest and saddest thoughts in this Meditation unto him of any other. Verse 11. it follows, Who knoweth the Power of thine Anger? Even according to thy Fear, so is thy Wrath.—Which he utters,