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…

I shall instance only in four of those signs, whereof the first, which is also often mentioned in that Chapter, is, when the hair in the sore is turned white, and when the plague in sight is deeper then the skin. The white ¹hair may note such as have continued long, and are grown old in any wickedness. The deepness of the plague, such whose wickedness is not only acted by their hands, but seated in their hearts, and sunk into their spirits. A resolved, studied way of evil, is a deep sore; deeper then the skin, such men are far worse then they appear.

I shall instance onely in foure of those signes, whereof the first, which is also often mentioned in that Chapter, is, when the haire in the soare is turned white, and when the plague in sight is deeper then the skin. The white ¹haire may note such as have continued long, and are growne old in any wickednesse. The deepnesse of the plague, such whose wickednesse is not onely acted by their hands, but seated in their hearts, and sunke into their spirits. A resolved, studied way of evill, is a deepe soare; deeper then the skin, such men are far worse then they appeare.

1. 1Lev. 13. 3.

The second token of Leprosy, was, when the scab did spread much in the skin. Though it had no white hairs, ¹though it were no deeper then the skin, yet if it did spread much in the skin, such an one was a Leper. It ⟨p. 35⟩may figure such, whose sinful courses (after admonition) are gaining and growing still upon themselves, or are scattered and spread to the infecting of others.