In that David excites himselfe to remem∣ber,* 1.1 or not to forget Gods benefits, it is pre∣supposed 1 That he had observed, or taken notice of Gods benefits toward him. For that which was never taken notice of, can not be the object either of remembrance or forget∣fulnesse.
2 That unlesse the memory be ever and anon rubbed up, there is danger that forget∣fulnesse of benefits received may creep upon us. For such is the perversnesse of our nature, that those things which we should forget (viz. our benefits bestowed upon others, and their injuries done to us) we engrave in our memo∣ries as in a marble table with a pen of iron and the point of a diamond; but those things which we should most remember (the bene∣fits which we have received from others, even from God Himself, obliging us to gratitude)