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, this may be for Admonition. To lay a mighty restraint upon our Spirits, and keep us from every evil work. It was an advise of the Moralist to his Scholars, that they should ever carry in their eye a conceived representation of some severe Cato, or Critical Aristarch, as the Overseer and censurer of all their actions. That, he thought, would hold them in Compass. God seems to speak the same Counsel, and almost the same Language to Abraham: Walk before ¹me, and be thou perfect. The eye of Conscience restrains much, it is hard for a man to sin under the eye of Conscience: What then is the eye of God? who is greater then Conscience, and knoweth all things. Could we as ²David speaks (in the type) of Christ, set the Lord always before us: Or as the Apostle quotes it, could we foresee the Lord always before our face, we should not be so often, so easily moved by temptations as we are. And as this should caution all men in all works: so especially those who are actively concerned in works of Justice. In these, as Christ hath a more special Interest (all power being put into his hand, and from him communicated unto man) so upon these he hath a more special Eye. God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty, ³he judgeth among the gods; Not always by consenting, for they may err and judge unjustly, v. 2. And Christ ⟨p. 14⟩will never vote with such; but he always judgeth by discerning whether the sentence be just or not. Jehoshaphat warns his Judges upon this very ground, Take ⁴heed what ye do, for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgement; as if he had said, I cannot ride circuit with you to all places, or fit with you in all your Consultations; but the Lord can and doth, he is with you in the Judgement. With you, not only by way of assistance, and protection (as that phrase often imports) but also by way of notice-taking, and observation. He keeps a record of every judgement, and will at last judge them all over a second time.

Secondly, this may be for Admonition. To lay a mighty restraint upon our Spirits, and keep us from every evill worke. It was an advise of the Moralist to his Schollers, that they should ever carry in their eye a conceived representation of some severe Cato, or Criticall Aristarch, as the Overseer and censurer of all their actions. That, he thought, would hold them in Compasse. God seemes to speake the same Counsell, and almost the same Language to Abraham: Walke before