Westminster Larger Catechism

The word Remember is set in the beginning of the fourth commandment,⁶³⁷ partly, because of the great benefit of remembering it, we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep it,⁶³⁸ and, in keeping it, better to keep all the rest of the commandments,⁶³⁹ and to continue a thankful remembrance of the two great benefits of creation and redemption, which contain a short abridgment of religion;⁶⁴⁰ and partly, because we are very ready to forget it,⁶⁴¹ for that there is less light of nature for it,⁶⁴² and yet it restraineth our natural liberty in things at other times lawful;⁶⁴³ that it cometh 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 it;⁶⁴⁴ and that Satan with his instruments much labour to blot out the glory, and even the memory of it, to bring in all irreligion and impiety.⁶⁴⁵