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…

In this larger sense take works in the Text. Good works are expressed here in these two verses: and some evil, the decay of their first love, and the consequent of it, falling from their first works in the two following, where he is plain with them, I have somewhat against thee; he reckons up their faults too, and in reference to both pronounceth, I know thy works, I clearly apprehend all; what are good I know and approve, what are evil I know and dislike. Hence observe,

In this larger sence take works in the Text. Good works are expressed here in these two verses: and some evill, the decay of their first love, and the consequent of it, falling from their first workes in the two following, where he is plaine with them, I have somewhat against thee; he reckons up their faults too, and in refernce to both pronounceth, I know thy workes, I clearly apprehend all; what are good I know and approve, what are evill I know and dislike. Hence observe,

That all the works of men lie open to the sight of Doct. 1 Christ who is God and Man. Be they good or evil, be they actions, words or thoughts, be they abstinences from evil, or omissions of good, they all fall within the prospect of Jesus Christ. The ways of a man (saith Solomon) are before the Lord, and he pondereth ¹or weigheth as in a balance all his ways. If they be but half a grain to light, his beam ²will discover it. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. The hundred ⟨p. 5⟩thirty nine Psalm is but a continued Paraphrase upon this point, v. 1. O Lord thou hast searched me and ³known me, Men often search men and yet cannot know them. There are secrets and depths in man which man cannot reach: What man knoweth the things of man, save