todrotvfieS AIN TS. 1 3a carry that away; whereas that which is wholefom, and might doe us more good, how apt are wee to forget that ? As a Divine fayes, Our memories are like {trainers, all the pure milke runneth through , but if there be any droffe , that fayes behinde ; or like a grate that lets the pure water run away, and if there be any 1Iraves and Rickes, and filth, and mud, and dregs, that it holds ; fo it is with our memories by nature trifles, and toyes, and worldly things, them we are apt to remember , like the Shepheard in cork; fhire , that could remember all his flock , he kept a thouiànd ,beep and if one fhould but change one Sheep and put in another, he could tell which it was. But for gracious things our Memories does loon forget them like Iliad, they faon forgot 411 the workesof God, Plal.to6.r3. Now what is this but the corruption and deadnes ; of our memories towards God ? May be we are apt to escute it, alas we have weak memories, true, if we were as weake ineiuoryed in other things , it were fomethmg ; but when we can remember our plca- fures, and profits and tales, and any thing ; when we goe to buy, weel'e be lure to remember our felves there, when to fell, wee'le be fore to remember our felves there , that we will have to the worth ifwe can. But in matters of God there we forget our felves ; this cannot be excufed. Now when this is reified in fume meafiire, then our memory is alive; when wee will rather forget any thing elle then God ; rather forget our felves in all the world, then forget our duty towards God, when this Rudy is once let up found ly in the foule in tome meaCure, now the memory is alive. Thus yee fee the third thing. Now for the fourth, that this muff needs be the life of the Memory, I prove it by arguments. Firfi, becaufe the Memory bath hardly any other quickening, then the quickening of the man whole memo- ry it is, fo that when the mans mind is quickened together with his Conteience and heart the memory, is quickened d 3 too; s.
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