Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Forgetting what we hear. If a Scholar have his Rules laid before him, and he forgets them as fast as he reads them, he will never learn. Aristotle calls the Memory, the Scribe of the Soul; and Bernard calls it the Stomach of the Soul, because it hath a retentive faculty, and turns heavenly food into blood and spirits.
We have great memories in other things; we remember that which is vain. Cyrus could remember the name of every Soldier in his huge Army; we remember injuries. This is to fill a precious Cabinet with dung; but, quàm facilis oblivio boni? as Jerome saith, how soon doe we forget the sacred truths of God? We are apt to forget three things, our faults, our friends, our instructions. ...
For the reference, see Thomas Watson on the evil of forgetting what we hear.
We have great memories in other things; we remember that which is vain. Cyrus could remember the name of every Soldier in his huge Army; we remember injuries. This is to fill a precious Cabinet with dung; but, quàm facilis oblivio boni? as Jerome saith, how soon doe we forget the sacred truths of God? We are apt to forget three things, our faults, our friends, our instructions. ...
For the reference, see Thomas Watson on the evil of forgetting what we hear.