It is time I proceed to speak of the third particular, the Wise Man’s exhortation—_Remember_.—We meet with many such fatherly admonitions in scripture, and in fact, God promises we shall remember. _Thou shalt remember all the way the Lord thy God hath led thee in the Wilderness_.—And one of the blessed Offices of the Holy Ghost is that of a Remembrancer. This influence over the mind we often need in our state of pilgrimage: we have, naturally, bad memories—besides, Satan is a thief, and he is secretly watching to steal all the good he can from us, and to leave us all the dregs. Our inbred sins, and many outward foes, also hurt our memories—they are Foxes that spoil the Vines, that have tender grapes. It is an unspeakable mercy that our Salvation does not depend upon our memories, but in God’s remembering of us. Hence he has said, _If I forget thee_, _O Jerusalem_, _let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth_. He remembered his Covenant, he remembered his mercy. _I will remember my Covenant with thee_. Then he appeals to parental affections, and asks, _Can a woman forget her sucking child_? _Yea_, _she may forget_, (perhaps, my Brother, I am an instance of it) _yet will I not forget thee_. _My kindness shall not depart from thee_, _nor the Covenant of my peace be removed_, _saith the Lord_, _that hath mercy on_ THEE, _O thou afflicted_, _tossed with tempest_, _and not comforted_.—Here is our security, though we are so forgetful, so ungrateful—forever we dwell in his heart, forever in his mind; and he has graciously intimated there are some things which he can never do, consistently with his Nature, his Perfections, and Covenant. It was impossible for God to lie: he cannot forget his people, he will not remember their sins; he will never leave nor forsake those he once has loved.