5° SER M.1 1. Hebr. t:.5. a.In things we are comman- ded to Fgrget. Iatttes g. s5. Mat the Nature of man is full of thing elfe. Hehrer#er 12. You have forgot theconfo- latrons, &c. Againe, wee are readie to rememberwhat G o D bids us to forget. We are apt to remember Injuries, yea, one injury will be thought on more than many yeares good fervice, or many good turnes. Wee fhould not doe thus, but fhould remember the bene- fits from God and man, for the encreafe of love. So Idle tales wee are ready to remember , but good things, though they be accompanied with the mo- tion,and quickening of the Spirit,goe out like fparks in wet tinder, they goe out againe quickly, as if they hadnotbeene. So,foä hearing the Word, James I. 25, wee are called forgetfull hearers, when wee are about that dutie: if a tale be told us in a Sermon that we can remember,but what is profitable and whole- fome, that we forget. Our mindes are like (trainers, all the milke pafl'esthorow them;that that we fhould grow by, that which is wholefome, and ncceffary for nourifhment runnes thorow, but the drofle re- maints : Trifles and vaine things wee can remem- ber, and carry awaywith us, and this is the finful- mile of our memories. You may call it weaknefl'e of memory, and may thinke that it is not fo great a matter. No, it is not the infirmitie of thy memory, but the corruption of thy nature : if we forget other things as much, it were another cafe,but becaufe ho- ly things are fpirituall, and the frame of the heart is naught, our corrupt ill dilpofition makes us readie to forget them; and more than that, there is a care. lefneffe in our mindes, wee regard not the things of G o D, but every vanitie we regard, and our mitade is
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