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…

A SERMON PREACHED At the late FAST before the Commons House of PARLIAMENT.

REV. 2. v. 2, 3. I know thy works, and thy labour and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil, and hast tried them which say they are Apostles and are not, and hast found them liars. And hast borne and hast patience, and for my name sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

REV. 2. v. 2, 3. I know thy works, and thy labour and thy patience, and how thou canst not beare them which are evill, and hast tryed them which say they are Apostles and are not, and hast found them lyars. And hast borne and hast patience, and for my name sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

That ancient Character of this Book (quot verba tot Sacramenta) as many ¹mysteries as words, like that flaming Sword in the 3d. of Genesis which stopped the way to the tree of life, may here seem to stop the way to this Tree of Knowledge. Time hath always proved the surest Interpreter ⟨p. 2⟩of a Prophecy, and the event expounds more in one day, then the Comment of many Ages. Yet as the greatest Rivers, so the most mysterious books of Scripture run not in the same continued depth: Though in some places they can scarce be sounded, yet in others they show their bottom and may be waded.

THat ancient Character of this Book (quot verba tot Sacramenta) as many