A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

From that [Remember,] Seasonable remembrance of truths is a great help and relief to the soul; John 2. 22. When he was risen from the dead, the Disciples remembered, &c. ⟨p. 483⟩in events 'tis good to remember Prophesies, they confirm the soul, and support it against the present distress and temptation, both sins and discomforts arise from forgetfulness mostly, and want of actual remembrance; Have ye forgotten, Heb. 12. 5. but now when the spirit is ready with the remedy, as the flesh is with the temptations, 'tis a mighty support; in the debates between the carnal and spiritual part, seasonable thoughts carry it, I do not say bare thoughts do it, unless God be in them; there may be gracious disallowing thoughts, and yet the flesh go away with the victory for all that; but this is the way by which the spirit of God worketh by fresh and seasonable thoughts, he poiseth the heart, and inclineth it to the better side: Well then, let your memories be as an Ark or Chest, in which the Tables ore kept; lay up a good stock of knowledge, that you may have truths always fresh and present with you, will be an help to prayer, Eph. 6. 17, 18 Take the sword of the spirit which is the word of God, praying always, &c. a check to temptations to sin, Psal. 119. 9. I have hid thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee; a support in afflictions, Heb. 12. 5. a remedy against error, John 14, 26.

From that [Remember,] Seasonable remembrance of truths is a great help and relief to the soul; John 2. 22. When he was risen from the dead, the Desciples remembred, &c. ⟨p. 483⟩in events 'tis good to remember Prophesies, they confirm the soul, and support it against the present distress and temptation, both sins and discomforts arise from forgetfulness mostly, and want of actual remembrance; Have ye forgotten,