REmembred] Remembrance in proprietie of speech is applied to such onely as may forget; yet by a figure of conformitie betwixt God and man, (whereby God is spoken of after the manner of men) he is said not onely to remember, Gen. Chap. 9. 15. Exodus 32:13. Ezekiel 16:60. but to forget also, as Psalms 13:1. Isaiah 49:14. and both these with a various respect to the godly, and to the wicked; though indeed he apprehends all things past, present, and to come at one act, and so doth not properly remember, much lesse forget any thing: but by his remembrance as applied to the godly, is meant some act of Divine favour, Hebrews 6:10. as the granting of their requests, Genesis 30:22. Job 14:13. Psalms 132:1. the performing of his promises made unto them, Gen. Chap. 19. vers. 29. Exodus 32:13. Deuteronomy 9. 27. Ezekiel 16:60. and the rewarding of their workes, Neh. 13. vers. 14. 22. not for their merit, but for his owne mercie: Lastly, his remembring of them is his relieving them in distresse, when in the opinion of men they are thought to be neglected, as if they were quite forgotten by him; and he is said not to remember the sinnes of such, Jeremiah 31:34. Hebrews 10:17. when he doth so freely and fully forgive them, as if he did altogether forget them: and he is said to forget them, when he with holds his favour from them, or deferreth to send succour to them in their necessitie, Psalms 13:1. and with reference to the wicked his remembrance is a recompencing them after their misdoings, Psalms 137:7. and his forgetting a forbearing of punishment, as if they were both out of sight and out of mind with him, Psalms 10:11. and now it was seasonable for God to manifest his remembrance of Noah, who had beene many moneths in a state of sadnesse, though of safetie, and might well by this time be weary of his close prison, his unsteady dwelling, and of his cohabitation with brute creatures, unfit (save in case of great necessitie) to lodge with him under the same roofe. and all the cattell] Gods benignitie extendeth to man and beast, Psal. 36. vers. 6. & 147. 5: 9. Jonah 4:11. a wind to passe] The wind, as God pleaseth to employ it, either driveth away raine or bringeth it; see Proverbs 25:23. Text and Margine; so it sometimes maketh a flood to swell bigger, Psalms 107:25. Jonah 1:4. and sometimes (and that most usually) it dryeth up small waters, and lessnth or abateth the depth of great ones, though it ruffle them up into boisterous waves: but in the slacking and asswaging of this great flood, there was (besides the naturall operation of the wind) a supernaturall and miraculous power to make this high Tide to fall to an ebbe; as in the drying up of the sea by the East-wind, Exodus 14. vers. 21.