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I confess that every good mans memory is not an equal ⟨p. 190⟩treasury, nor perhaps a very fruitful soil, but to have a memory like an utterly barren womb, retentive of no spiritual truths, Simile. but like sand in a glass, put in the one part, and instantly running our to the other, this total and absolute falseness in our memories, is a shrewd presumption that either we do not at all rightly conceive of, and understand spiritual truths, or if we do, yet that we do not much care for them and respect them.

I confesse that every good mans memory is not an equall ⟨p. 190⟩treasurie, nor perhaps a very fruitfull soyle, but to have a memory like an utterly barren wombe, retentive of no spirituall truths, Simile. but like sand in a glasse, put in the one part, and instantly running our to the other, this totall and absolute falsenesse in our memories, is a shrewd presumption that either wee doe not at all rightly conceive of, and understand spirituall truths, or if wee doe, yet that we doe not much care for them and respect them.

2 Forgetfulness of truths heard and received, is a kind of very evil ignorance; the Schoolmen do distinguish of Ignorantiae purae negationis, wherein a ⟨p. 191⟩man doth not know, and of Ignorantiae pravae dispositionis, wherein either a man will not, or unfits himself to know. Thus is it with forgetfulness, truths forgotten are like truths unknown, and the more that the knowledge of former truths wear out, the less capacity is there to apprehend and receive further truths:

2 Forgetfulnesse of truths heard and received, is a kinde of very evill ignorance; the Schoolmen doe distinguish of Ignorantiae purae negationis, wherein a ⟨p. 191⟩