The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons…The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons…

Secondly, if we bear such, though we could escape Reason. 2 the pollution, yet we shall fall under the guilt of their sins. We sin in others, while we suffer them to sin: We commit all the evil which is in our power to hinder, if we hinder it not. Vitia aliorum si feras, facis tua. We become guilty of other mens sins, not only by commanding, counselling, and approving them; but (if we may) by not stopping and restraining them. I will judge the house of Eli for ever (saith the Lord) for the iniquity which he knoweth, because his sons made themselves ¹vile, and he restrained them not. He gave them fatherly advice, but he did not use his Fatherly Authority. When Christ calls his people out of Babylon, this ²is added as a reason, that ye be not partakers of her sins: Which partaking in her sin, as it notes danger of infection, of getting some taint and spots in Babylon: so it notes also danger of contracting some guilt, by not opposing or protesting against the Idolatry there practised, and heresy there maintained, though they keep themselves pure from all practise of the one, or maintenance of the other. And that,

Secondly, if we beare such, though we could escape Reason. 2 the pollution, yet we shall fall under the guilt of their sins. We sinne in others, while we suffer them to sinne: We commit all the evill which is in our power to hinder, if we hinder it not. Vitia aliorum si feras, facis tua. We become guilty of other mens sinnes, not onely by commanding, counselling, and approving them; but (if wee may) by not stopping and restraining them. I will judge the house of Eli for ever (saith the Lord) for the iniquity which he knoweth, because his sons made themselves ¹vile, and he restrained them not. He gave them fatherly advice, but he did not use his Fatherly Authority. When Christ cals his people out of Babylon, this ²is added as a reason, that ye be not partakers of her sinnes: Which partaking in her sinne, as it notes danger of infection, of getting some taint and spots in Babylon: so it notes also danger of contracting some guilt, by not opposing or protesting against the Idolatry there practised, and heresie there maintained, though they keepe themselves pure from all practise of the one, or maintenance of the other. And that,