Psalms 90

God was once a friend, but sin broke the knot of friendship; now God's smile is turned into a frown; we are now bound over to the sessions, and become children of wrath. And who knows the power of God's wrath? (Psalms 90:11). The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion (Prov…

We are apt to fear such as are in power; (Jeremiah 5:22) Fear you not me, says the Lord? will you not tremble at my presence? He has power to cast our souls and bodies into Hell; (Psalm 90:11) Who knows the power of his wrath? God can with the same breath that made us, dissolve…

The next attribute is, God is Eternal (Psalm 90:2): From everlasting to everlasting you are God. The Schoolmen distinguish between Aevum and Eternum, to explain the notion of eternity.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about. 1. He will set himself against his enemies: He will set his attributes against them, his power and justice; and who knows the power of his anger (Psalm 90:11). 2. God will set the creatures against them (Judges 5:20).

1. God's wrath is irresistible. (Psalm 90:11.) Who knows the power of your anger? Sinners may oppose God's ways, but not his wrath.

If he can look men into their grave, how far can he throw them? Who knows the power of his wrath? (Psalm 90:11). What fools are they who for a drop of pleasure drink a sea of wrath.

If when but a spark of God's anger lights into the conscience here, it is so torturing, what will it be to have mountains of God's wrath thrown upon the soul? (Psalm 90:11) Who knows the power of your anger? The angel never poured out his vial but some woe followed; (Revelation…

The pardoned soul is forever secured from the wrath of God. How terrible is God's wrath (Psalm 90:11)? Who knows the power of your anger?

Q. Had this world a beginning by creation, or was it from everlasting? A. The scripture in many places, and especially in the first of Genesis does declare that the world was not from everlasting, but had a beginning by the Lord's creating of it (Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; P…

While we live in this world, men who know no afflictions beyond what they see with their eyes and feel in the outward man — nothing beyond loss of friends and credit — often fear God less, and when they come to part with any of these for God are less willing. But when they shall…

God's wrath and vindicative justice, is the proper object of fear, and so it must be looked upon by the converted and unconverted. 1. For the unconverted, 'tis the great fault and security that they do not consider what a dreadful thing it is to lye under the wrath and displeasu…

Again we must distinguish of the term or limit set for death, which is either, general or special. The general limit is now seventy or eighty years (Psalm 90:10), The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is the…

It is a great alleviation and mitigation of the most grievous affliction, and of the bitterest and most extreme sorrow, to think that not only it will have a term day and date of expiration, but that it will quickly in a very short time, even in a moment be over and at an end; (…

Assertion 4. Sins of youth already pardoned as touching the obligation to eternal wrath, may so rise against the child of God, as he has need to ask the forgiveness of them, as touching the removing of present wrath, sense of the want of God's presence, of the influence of his l…

When your sins are known to none but to God and your own conscience, you are not bound to discover them to any other but to God, in a hearty secret repentance, except in some few cases. Here then comes in secret prayer and godly sorrow: Well then, there's none of us without our…

Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord — (Lamentations 2:19). 7. Would you not have your own secret sins set in the light of God's countenance (Psalm 90:8)? Then repent and pray alone, humble your s…

Peter knowing that the time was at hand, that he was to lay down his tabernacle, stirs up himself to greater diligence in his calling, and says, I will not be negligent to put you in remembrance of these things, so long as I am in this tabernacle, seeing I know the time is at ha…

In the meanwhile, for as much as the Scriptures plainly show, and often set before us the end why God does this or that; we ought to be wise in observing the causes of his works. Now this invention of God's absolute power, which the Schoolmen have forged, is a most execrable bla…

This is a very apt comparison: which shows that men wither and wane away as soon as they feel God's wrath. Which point is notably described in (Psalm 90:5) and (Psalm 103:15) and in (chapter 40:6). We are rightly compared to leaves then; because our iniquities are the winds whic…

But thus I expound the Prophet's words; Be they young or old, they shall come to a perfect age; so as they shall evermore be strong, even as in the flower of youth: indeed, they shall be always lusty and strong: for we wax old and feeble by reason of our sins. When you are angry…

Though I am young, yet when I perceive my debility and my bodily indisposition, I have anxiety about those who shall come after us, as if I were already old." and that long before other fifteen years had run their course, he seemed as if threescore years and ten, or rather fours…

But since that, in which our concernment lies, how do the holy men of God set forth, and as it were complain of the woful frailty of our condition! So does Moses (Psalm 90:5, 6): You carriest them away with a flood; which he spake in contemplation of those thousands which he saw…

And this is a second thing, which is in God's special presence; he will protect, or defend them with whom he is so present. He is their dwelling place (Psalm 90), then when in this world they had none; their refuge in the time of trouble. So (Isaiah 25:4; 26:1; 31:4) promises, a…

17. God calls upon London to make him their habitation. (Psalm 90:1) Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. God is the hiding-place, and he is the dwelling-place of his people; you have lost your dwellings by the fire, make God your habitation, and dwell in h…

There cannot be so much sweetness in sin, as there is sting. How dreadful is God's anger (Psalm 90:11): Who knows the power of his wrath? All fire compared with the fire of God's wrath is painted and imaginary.

7. Another thing here must not be omitted, which was a great and remarkable dispensation of Providence, respecting the whole world of mankind, which was finished in this period; and that was, the shortening the days of man's life, whereby it was brought down from being between n…

2. It implies sickness and weakening of the person, as in Amnon's love to his sister Tamar (2 Samuel 13:1, 2, 3, 4). It comes from apprehended wrath, and the curse of the Law (Psalms 90:8; Psalms 32:3, 4; Psalms 6:1; Psalms 38:1, 2, 3, 4, &c.; Daniel 9:11; Romans 7:24; Isaiah 33…

He speaks it to them that receive the sacrament unworthily: as if he should say; both in this, and in all other sins that you do commit, you do, as it were, contend with the great God, which is a vain thing, if you consider his greatness: for are you stronger than he? So (Psalm…

Where eternity is compared to a house or habitation, to which none can enter, but God himself, because he only is high and excellent; all the creatures are excluded out of this habitation. It is required to eternity, that there be no beginning; which description you shall see of…

When the ways of God are questioned, indeed disannulled, exploded with contempt and scorn, the more precious to a gracious heart, therefore do I love them says David, that was the very motive of his affection (verse 127). 3. Because God loves to bestow blessings when the creatur…

Who knoweth the power of his anger? Even according to his fear, so is his wrath, Psalm 90:11. Oh consider, how will his Almighty Power rack and torment you! Think on this, when sin comes with a smiling face towards you in the temptation.

But the light of Scripture does most discover this, and it is a lesson that requires the Spirit of God to teach it aright. Teach us (says Moses, Psalm 90) so to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. And David (Psalm 39) make me to know my life how frail I am.

My flesh trembles for fear of you (says David) and I am afraid of your judgments. Indeed, they tremble when they hear the sentence against others, or see the execution on them; it minds them when they see public executions, and knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men, say…

You are every day in that way of disobedience, hastening to this perpetual imprisonment. Consider you now sit and hear this word, so did these that are here spoken of; they had their time on earth, and much patience used towards them, and though not to be swept away by a flood o…

(4.) The Duration, Forever; all excellencies which are in God, they are eternally in God. God is an infinite, simple, independent Being, the cause of all things, but caused by none; therefore he was from everlasting, and will be to everlasting: (Psalm 90:2) Before the mountains…

Is it easie to wrestle with flames? Psalm 90:11. Who knows the Power of his anger?

None have such a sense of it upon their hearts, as they that are taught by God. (Psalm 90:12) So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. And, Teach me to know how frail I am, says David.

So the prophet (Jeremiah 4:19) My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at the very heart: verse 22. But my people is foolish, they are sottish children; they that brought the evil upon themselves are senseless and stupid. (Psalm 90:11) Who knows the power of your anger? according to y…

First, it is an infinite, unterminable duration, without beginning or ending. Psalm 90:2. From everlasting to everlasting you are God. God never was nothing, never shall be nothing.

The fear or terror of a King is like the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger, sins against his own soul (Proverbs 20:2). Oh what dread is there then from the anger of the King of Kings — when God sets our iniquities before him, we are consumed by his anger, and trou…

Time is a prophet for eternity, as men live here, they are like to live forever: they that sow sin must reap death (Galatians 6:8). Time is to be redeemed (Ephesians 5:16), and every day to be numbered, greatly valued and improved, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom (Psalms…

(Isaiah 61:6) The Lord binds up the broken heart. The first of which signifies to pound to powder, and to bring to small dust; it is so used, (Psalm 90:3) You bring man to the dust of death, again you say, return you children of men. That as the hardest stone when it's broken al…

He must have new comforts, new desires, new hopes, [illegible] heart must be broken to pieces under the weight of the evil of sin, and the curses due to the old condition, before this will part; for that the word here used with great elegance and pregnancy implies, namely, by an…

It is no more than the pricking of a pin compared to a death wound. Who can know the power of your anger (Psalm 90:11)? Christ himself could not have borne that anger had he not been more than a man.

The word 'world' in scripture is in general taken four ways. First, for the world as container — generally for the whole fabric of heaven and earth with all things in them contained, which God created in the beginning (Job 34:13; Acts 17:24; Ephesians 1:4); and distinctly, first…

Rule 2 A second rule to guide you in the matter of confession of sin to God is this: Make conscience to confess your small and secret evils as well as your open and grosser sins. Our secret sins, says the Prophet, are in the light of your countenance, Psalms 90:8. You hast set o…

SERMON 13. The Eternity of God. PSALM 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting you are God. The immensity and eternity of God are those attributes which relate to his nature, or manner of…

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. And the ways of God's judgments; the severity and greatness of his judgment is not known (Psalm 90). Who knows the power of your anger?

This, it seems, was a common saying among the Jews, to signify, that to the Eternity of God, no finite duration bears any proportion; and therefore with regard to Eternity, it is all one whether it be a thousand Years or one Day. The Psalmist has an expression much to the same p…

I wish none of us may know what kind of fire it is, but I rather think, the fire of hell is partly material, and partly spiritual; the material fire is to work upon the body, the spiritual to torture the soul. This is the wrath of God, which is both fire and bellows, who knows t…