A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered…

To the first, viz. what it is to remember. The word hath three significations; each and every of which do's very well suite with what is intended in the Text.

1. To remember, is to call to mind that which we had forgotten, which we had let slip out of our memory. And so it's used in Mat. 26.25. When the Cock crew, Peter remembered the words of Jesus, (and that very remembrance engaged him to repent; For he went out and wept bitterly.) He remembered the words of Jesus, that is, he called to mind what Jesus had told him, and he had forgotten, viz. That before the Cock crew he should deny him thrice. So then to call to mind that which we once were, and to look back upon that which we once did, and from which we are now fallen, is useful for our recovery & restoration to that state.

1. To remember, is to call to minde that which we had forgotten, which we had let slip out of our memory. And so it's used in Mat. 26.25. When the Cock crew, Peter remembred the words of Jesus, (and that very remembrance ingaged him to repent; For he went out and wept bitterly.) He remembred the words of Jesus, that is, he called to mind what Jesus had told him, and he had forgotten, viz. That before the Cock crew he should deny him thrice. So then to call to mind that which we once were, and to look back upon that which we once did, and from which we are now falen, is useful for our recovery & restauration to that state.

2. To remember signifies to meditate upon; Now meditation is a thinking of a thing over and over, again and again; 'tis the fixing and settling of the thoughts upon such or such a subject. So 'tis used in