" So these; they forget.
They forget what light and what convictions they had. They forget
what sorrow for sin they had. They forget what tastes of Christ and
his word they had.
They forget what joy and comfort they had. They forget how fair for
heaven they were. And they forget how cleansed once they were. "They
have forgotten that they were purged from their old sins." 2 Pet.
1:9.
Now, forgetfulness makes things that are past as nothings; and if
so, then it can lay no obligations upon the mind to engage it to
delight in them; no, not in thoughts of them, as if they were
remembered by us.
Forgetfulness is a very dangerous thing; it makes preaching vain,
profession vain, faith vain, and all to no purpose. 1 Cor. 15:1, 2.
Such profession is but a dream; and such professors but as dreamers;
all vanishes in the morning. This made Paul so caution the
Corinthians that they should forget not the preaching; arid the
writer to the Hebrews so earnestly call them, in their backsliding,
back to the remembrance of former days, and to the recollecting what
it was that then made them so willingly endure their great fight of
affliction.
Forgetfulness, I say, makes things nothings; it makes us as if
things had never been; and so takes away from the soul one great
means of stay, support, and encouragement.
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