The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Remember.] Young men of all others in this case have but short memories, are apt to forget God, his ways and Judgements, and to leave the care and minding hereof to their old age. Therefore the Wise man knowing how unfit and unseasonable that would be to enter upon so great a work adviseth them to begin betimes, and early to fix their thoughts on God, and to consecrate their strength, from the very first to him. For this remembrance in the text doth not only import an Act of memory, but such a calling to mind as works upon the affection, and practice, so as to set us a doing of what we know and remember.

Remember.] Young men of all others in this case have but short memories, are apt to forget God, his wayes and Judgements, and to leave the care and minding hereof to their old age. Therefore the Wise man knowing how unfit and unseasonable that would be to enter upon so great a work adviseth them to begin betimes, and early to fix their thoughts on God, and to consecrate their strength, from the very first to him. For this remembrance in the text doth not only import an Act of memory, but such a calling to mind as works upon the affection, and practice, so as to set us a doing of what we know and remember.

To remember God is the same as to know God, to love, and fear, and serve him. 'Tis the same counsel which Solomon here gives, which once he received from his aged ⟨p. 3⟩Father, 1 Chron. 28. 9. And thou Solomon my Son, know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and willing mind. As God is said to remember man, when he thinks upon him to do him good: So man doth then remember God, when he thinks upon him to do him service.