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…

First, it convinces those who think of drawing a Curtain, and spreading a veil of darkness between Christ and their works. Some while they do things not fit to be seen, would willingly persuade themselves, they are not seen in doing them. Thus the proud, subtle, merciless oppressor is described in the tenth Psalm. ⟨p. 12⟩He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his ¹face and will never see it. The same sort of men (a sort of men as bad within a degree as bad can be) are brought in under the same Notion of Atheism, In the 94th. Psalm. They break in pieces, O Lord, thy people, ²and afflict thy heritage, they slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless; yet they say (v. 7.) the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. Others perhaps have not made out this heart securing conclusion; yet with those in Job, they argue and debate it. ³How doth God know? can he judge through the dark Cloud? You may read these Querists resolved in the next words; Thick Clouds are a covering to him that he cannot see. He that vvill let his heart dally awhile about blasphemous Questions, may quickly be settled in blasphemous Conclusions. But let all such, whether questioning or resolving, hear themselves fully and bitterly confuted by the Psalmist in the place afore quoted: ⁴Understand ye brutish among the people, and ye fools when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall not he hear? He that formed the eye, shall not he see? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vain; and this the vainest thought of all, That God knows not their thoughts. Moses saw him who is invisible. Do not think that ⁵he who is invisible cannot see. God like the Optic virtue in the eye, sees all, and is seen of none. No man needs a window in his breast (as 'tis said the Heathen Momus wish) for God to look in at, every man before God is all Window. There is no darkness (faith Elihu) nor shadow of death, where the workers of wickedness may