[ 435] Memory must be active.
OUr memory is usually a good store-house, but no good Steward, it layeth up much, but of it self dispendeth nothing; it needeth some help to make use of her store, the speculative memory doth,* 1.1 and the practick much more. How many be there whose memories are richly stored with excellent rules of life, whereof in their life they make little or no use? Their memory doth not ••ffer them, when they have occasion to be doing, as if they had never known Commandemen••s or Creed, they live like In••idels,* 1.2 or sons of Belial; Wherefore as the eye of the body ne••deth the light of the Sun, to raise and convey the visible species unto it: Even so doth the eye of our understanding need the light of the Sun of Righteousnes•• to stir up, and present unto it the Principles of grace, whereof it hath need in the well or∣dering of our life; without this actual grace, our Memory will never make use of the habitual.