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Memory ought to be the Treasury of all goodness. [ 591]
ALexander the great, when he had overthrown Darius, King of Persia, he took amongst the spoyles, a most rich Cabinet, full of the choicest Iewels that the World had then seen,* 1.1 and there was a dispute before him to what use he would put the Cabinet, and every one having spent his judgement according as their fancies lead them, the King himself concluded, That he would keep that Cabinet, to be a Treasury to lay the books of Homer in, which were his joy; But surely the richest Cabinet that is,* 1.2 is in the soul of man, and that's the memory, the Ark of Heavenly knowledge, where like Mary we should lay up all that we know and hear of God; It is a rich Cabinet indeed, and therefore the fitter for the richest Iewel, the Word of God to be treasured up in.