John Trapp on Esther 9:28

Verſe 28. And that theſe dayes ſhould be remembred] That the memory of them might be kept a foot in the Church to all perpetuity. Nothing is ſooner forgotten then a good turn received. David found himſelf faulty this way, and therefore ſets the thorn to the breaſt, Pſal. 103.2. Other holy men kept catalogues, (ſee one of Gods own making, Judg. 10.11, 12.) They alſo had their [non-Latin text not transcribed], or Memorials, as is before noted. The very Heathens, had their triumphal Arches, Pillars; Trophies, Tables, Hiſtories, Annals, Ephemerides, &c. A ſoule ſhame for us to fall ſhort of them, and not to wiſh as Job in another caſe.Iob. 19.23, 24. Oh that Gods works of wonder for us were now written. Oh that they were printed in a book, That they were graven with an iron pen, and lead in the rock for ever. That famous fifth of November eſpecially,Ier. 23.7. This wás written. Nov. 5. 1653. which drownes in a manner the memory of all former deliverances; as the return out of Babylon did the departure out of Egypt. This happy day (too too much ſlighted, alas, in many places already) ſhould never be put out of the Engliſh Kalendar, whiles the Sun courſeth about the earth: but be regiſtred for the generation to come, that the people which ſhall be created, may praiſe the Lord, Pſal. 102.8.

Every family, every Province, and every City] They ſhould all recognize their late danger, and thereby the better reliſh their deliverance, as Sampſon did his honey-combe which he found by turning aſide to ſee the lion he had eſcaped. Every man was to conſider his own ſhare in the publick ſafety, as the people did at Solomons Coronation, and to be particularly thankful. This would fortifie his faith, feed his hope, nouriſh his joy, further his obedience.