Thirdly, Remember the Word, and thou wilt Remember the Lord: The Word of God Written, the Word of God Preached, is vouchsafed unto us: Remember that, and be able to say after the Psalmist, in Psal. 119. 16. I will not forget thy Word. Let our Memories be full of Truth, and they will be full of God. Our Memories are a costly, curious Cabinet; it is pity that there should be only vile rags and shreds laid up therein: We can Remember too well, old songs, and old wrongs. Our Memories ⟨p. 75⟩are too like the Walls of the House which Ezekiel saw, in Ezek. 8. 10. whereon the Forms of creeping things, and abominable Beasts, and cursed Idols, were portrayed all round about. For these things we may say, as one said unto his Friend, that offered to teach him the Art of Memory; Sir, (said he) If you would teach me the Art of Forgetfulness, I should be more pleased with it: But for the things of God, there our Memories should serve us, there our Memories do fail us wonderfully. I have read of a young Man, whom all the pains in the World would not make to Remember the letters of the Alphabet: Such lamentable forgetfulness in the Sacred and Solemn things of another World, are young people too subject unto. It is Recorded of Joseph, in Gen. 41. 51. that he called his First-born Son, Manasseh, or Forgetfulness. Such, O such a Name young Persons may often put on their own Souls, when the Word of God is brought unto them; their Souls are so many Manasseh's, O how forgetful are they, when God has been speaking to them! Our Lord said unto his Disciples, in John 15. 20. Remember the word that I said unto you. Every time you read a Chapter, or hear a Sermon, then Remember that the Lord says, ⟨p. 76⟩Remember this: The Apostle so speaketh, in Heb. 2. 1. The things which we have heard, we should not let them slip: 'Tis an allusion to a Leaky Vessel. Young People, the Great God is pouring his Commandments, and Promises, and Threatenings into your Souls every day; O do not suffer them to leak away. Retain in your own Souls, the sense and use of the things that you hear from God the Lord: It is said in Rev. 3. 3. Remember how thou hast received and heard. When thou hast received and heard a message from the God of Heaven; give thy Soul now that charge, Remember this, O my Soul, Remember it.
Thirdly, Remember the Word, and thou wilt Remember the Lord: The Word of God Written, the Word of God Preached, is vouchsafed unto us: Remember that, and be able to say after the Psamist, in Psal. 119. 16. I will not forget thy Word. Let our Memories be full of Truth, and they will be full of God. Our Memories are a costly, curious Cabinet; it is pity that there should be only vile rags and shreds laid up therein: We can Remember too well, old songs, and old wrongs. Our Memories ⟨p. 75⟩are too like the Walls of the House which Ezekiel saw, in Ezek. 8. 10. whereon the Forms of creeping things, and abominable Beasts, and cursed Idols, were pourtray'd all round about. For these things we may say, as one said unto his Friend, that offer'd to teach him the Art of Memory; Sir, (said he) If you would teach me the Art of Forgetfulness, I should be more pleased with it: But for the things of God, there our Memories should serve us, there our Memories do fail us wonderfully. I have read of a young Man, whom all the pains in the World would not make to Remember the letters of the Alphabet: Such lamentable forgetfulness in the Sacred and Solemn things of another World, are young people too subject unto. It is Recorded of Joseph, in Gen. 41. 51. that he called his First-born Son, Menasseh, or Forgetfulness. Such, O such a Name young Persons may often put on their own Souls, when the Word of God is brought unto them; their Souls are so many Menasseh's, O how forgetful are they, when God has been speaking to them! Our Lord said unto his Disciples, in John 15. 20. Remember the word that I said unto you. Every time you read a Chapter, or hear a Sermon, then Remember that the Lord says, ⟨p. 76⟩Remember this: The Apostle so speaketh, in Heb. 2. 1. The things which we have heard, we should not let them slip: 'Tis an allusion to a Leaky Vessel. Young People, the Great God is pouring his Commandments, and Promises, and Threatnings into your Souls every day; O do not suffer them to leak away. Retain in your own Souls, the sense and use of the things that you hear from God the Lord: It is said in Rev. 3. 3. Remember how thou hast received and heard. When thou hast received and heard a message from the God of Heaven; give thy Soul now that charge, Remember this, O my Soul, Remember it.
