500 Chap. r0. !ln Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. ge Yale 9. itemember,l befeech thee,tbat thou haft made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me intoduff again ? Remember, I>betech thee. itecerdnus y , job (peaks heartily, his fpirit was in a heat; Remember I be.e moor fait, o. feeeb thee;. The original word is applied to a fenfirive aft,as well' quando de it, as to a- rational (PM. 20. 3.) The Lord remember, orfinell all thy. vfrììs fa- offerings.: Memory is the favour or lent of things preferved in pour. the mind. The Hebrews exprefs man, or a male child, by a Odoreturomnia word of that root, and they give two reafons of it. Either,firfl, Jun " rag. becaufe man is of a fironger memory then the woman. Or, fe- Záehar,marsue condly, becaufe the man-child preferveth the memoryof the fa- d ,n,-ìa quo roily, and is a monument of his fathers honour, his name being magi potlet carried on from generation to generation-; in oppofition to guam miler, which, women or females are called Nafhim, which word impli- ourquiaotewo eth forgetfullnefr, becaufe their names and titles are fwállow- famiJieconfer ed- up in their husbands, and forgotten when they are mar- mot. Bextoif. Tied. ,Memory, or the ad of remembring is improperly' applied to God. For remembrance is of things part, but to God all things are prefnt. Memory is the tore- houle whereinwe lay up feve- ral notions, and keep records of what bath been done, which by an act of the underflanding we review and fetch out again. All things are ever open before God. He needs not turn leaves or fearch Regiflers, he needs not fo much as ilrain- a-thought to re- call what is pall; that which was from the beginning,and (hall be to the end, yea, to that which bath no end, eternity,is alwaies be fore him. God is Paid to remember, orto forget whLn he alts like a man, who remembers or forgets; but there is no ad either, of_ fargetfùlnefs, or of remembrance in God. Remembring implieth two things in God. Virl, a ferious attention to the perfon and confideration of the thing whichhe formerly feemed to flight, or lightly to pats by. VVe alto remember by minding and thinking upon what is pre- fènt, as well as by recalling what is pall. Second ly,To remember,notes a fpeedy lupply-ofour wants, or aaual deliverance out of damgers.God remembers us,when he fa- vours us; heremembers us;when hepities us,he remembers us,when he relieves us,JYho remembred tts in our loweffate,Pfal.r36.23.that . ie who brought us out of our loweftate.The needyfkall not alway be forgotten
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