[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?

The danger is that remembrance is used for self-righteousness, self-justification, point-scoring and what-about-ery.

Here will appear the Lord's own antidote against the instealing apostacy.

Vulneration or section sometimes procures a Gangrene, when the vital Principle is so debilitated, or enormous by the would, that instead of a good suppuration and vigorous transmutation, a depraved matter is generated, which corrupts and gangrenes the part: and thus a small cut of a finger or Toe hath gangrened, and killed the person: but in greater Wounds, the danger is greater, as more frequently to happen.