An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

The second thing is observable, viz. That God will remember them, and he will remember them now.

Hence note:¹ That, however God may forbear to come upon wicked men for their sins for a time, yet God hath his time to remember them all; to remember, that is; by his Judgments to make it appear to them that he doth remember them, when they think that God hath forgotten them. 1 Sam. 15. 20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amaleck did to Israel, ²how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt: I remember what he did; why this was four hundred years ago that he spoke of. We may commit a sin when we are young and feel nothing of it till we come to be old and then God may remember it against us;³ as many a man or woman takes a surfeit when they are young and they feel nothing when their bones are full of marrow and their veins with blood,⁴ they feel it not for the present, but when they come to be old, Oh! then it aches in their flesh and bones, and then they remember their licentiousness and carelessness in their youth: and so many young people they commit sin and conscience never troubles them for it, and they they think all is forgotten, ⟨p. 121⟩Oh! but many years after the sin is committed God remembers it and makes them remember it too; Joseph's brethren had committed that sin against their brother, and it was 22. years before we read of any remembering of that sin.⁵ Many things might be said to this point which I cannot now insist upon, only this thing take with you; Let all you that are young ones, yea and others too take heed what you do in sinning against God, for that which you do now may be remembered against you many years after, perhaps twenty, thirty, forty years hence, God may come upon you for what you do at this present; me thinks this should be unto young men a mighty strong motive to take heed of wicked lives,