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To God it is most properly applied in the former signification. For he ever fast holds in memory ⟨p. 6⟩and never forgets what he once knows:¹ And known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

To God it is most properly applyed in the former signification. For he ever fast holds in memory ⟨p. 6⟩and never forgets what he once knowes:¹ And knowne unto God are all his workes from the beginning of the world.

1. 1Act. 15. 18.

Yea, also in the latter signification it is oft attributed to God,¹ as where it is said, Did not the Lord remember them? and came it not into his mind? The latter phrase showeth that the act of remembering attributed to God in the former clause, is meant of calling to mind what was formerly known. Job oft calleth on God to remember him in this sense.² In this respect God is said to have Remembrancers: to whom he thus saith, Put me in Remembrance: and to this end he is said to have a book of Remembrance. ³But surely these things cannot be properly spoken of God. They are to be taken tropically, by way of resemblance, after the manner of man. When men having forgotten a friend, neglect him, do nothing for him, suffer him to want, to be oppressed, to lye in prison, or remain in captivity, but being put in mind that he is such and such a friend, do good to him and succour him, are said to remember him: So God (when after long suffering his children to want such and such a blessing, or to lye under such and such a cross, he bestoweth on them the blessing which they so long waited for or freeth them from the cross under which they lay so long) though he never forgot them, but knew and saw their want and pressure, is said to remember them. Thus he remembered Rachel,