I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. 2 Secondly: Therefore ye must know, That as for your want of Memory, there is an Head-Memory, and there is an Heart-Memory: Some have an Head-Memory, whereby they are able to give an account presently of all they have heard, in their due order; but they want an Heart-Memory to suggest the things to them when they should use the same: Some again have an Heart-Memory, so as they can remember the things when they should use them; but they have no Head-Memory. Now if you can remember the things as you are to use them, though you forget the words and Method, have you any cause to complain […] ••ugh the words heard, do depart from you, yet your heart […] •e kept sweet by the hearing of them. Water is often poured into a Vessel, and runs out presently yet it keeps the Vessel sweet. So now, though you hear, and hear, and hear again, and you cannot remember, and the things heard do not stay by you as you desire, yet your soul may be kept sweet thereby.

Answ. 2 Secondly: Therefore ye must know, That as for your want of Memory, there is an Head-Memory, and there is an Heart-Memory: Some have an Head-Memory, whereby they are able to give an account presently of all they have heard, in their due order; but they want an Heart-Memory to suggest the things to them when they should use the same: Some again have an Heart-Memory, so as they can remember the things when they should use them; but they have no Head-Memory. Now if you can remember the things as you are to use them, though you forget the words and Method, have you any cause to complain 〈…〉 ••ugh the words heard, do depart from you, yet your heart 〈…〉 •e kept sweet by the hearing of them. Water is often poured into a Vessel, and runs out presently yet it keeps the Vessel sweet. So now, though you hear, and hear, and hear again, and you cannot remember, and the things heard do not stay by you as you desire, yet your soul may be kept sweet thereby.