Deuteronomy 16:12

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Ver. 12. And thou shalt remember.] It is very good to look back and recognise our former worse condition. Agathocles, king of Sicily, being a potter's son, would be served only in earthen vessels. Willigis, archbishop of Ments, a wheelwright's son, hung wheels, and the tools wherewith they were made, around his bedchamber, and had these words written upon the walls in very fair characters, Willigis, Willigis, recole uncle veneris, Remember whence thou camest.