Answer: The word Remember is set in the beginning of the Fourth Commandment₁, partly, because of the great benefit of remembering it, we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep it₂, and, in keeping it, better to keep all the rest of the commandments₃, and to continue a thankful remembrance of the two great benefits of creation and redemption, which contain a short abridgment of religion₄; and partly, because we are very ready to forget it₅, for that there is less light of nature for it₆, and yet it restrains our natural liberty in things at other times lawful₇; that it comes but once in seven days, and many worldly businesses come between, and too often take off our minds from thinking of it, either to prepare for it, or to sanctify it₈;and that Satan with his instruments much labor to blot out the glory, and even the memory of it, to bring in all irreligion and impiety.₉

1. Ex 20:8;
2. Ex 16:23; Lk 23:54, 56; Mk 15:42; Neh 13:19;
3. Ps 92 title, 13–14; Ezk 20:12, 19–20;
4. Gen 2:2–3; Ps 118:22, 24; cf. Acts 4:10–11; Rev 1:10;
5. Ezk 22:26;
6. Neh 9:14;
7. Ex 34:21;
8. Dt 5:14–15; Amos 8:5;
9. Lam 1:7; Jer 17:21–23; Neh 13:15–23.