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A84337	The axe, against sin and error; and the truth conquering. A sermon on Matthew 3. 10. Now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees, therefore every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. At which, a Christian confessed, she was converted; and because it did good to her, desired it might be preached again at her funerall, that it might do good to others, ... wherein are shewed the causes of the sword upon England, and on the Lutherans, and the remedies that must be used, before the judgements cease. / Written by John Eachard, M. A. of Trin. Col. Camb. and pastor of Darsham in Suffolke. Published according to order.	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1646 (1646)	Wing E46; Thomason E322_26; ESTC R200585	51,668	51

22 23. And concerning Infants dying before Baptisme if either of the parents be faithfull they are said to be holy 1 Cor. 7. 14. that is within the holy covenant of Baptisme for Baptisme is the Antitype of the Ark that as Noah prepared the Ark not only to save himself but also his houshold so the same signe which now saveth us baptisme I mean the inward Baptisme is received to save a mans self and his houshold that die before they can come unto it as Peter and Paul told the Jaylor Believe in the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved and thy houshold Acts 16. which he could not do without baptisme and therefore it is said that when he was baptized he rejoyced that he and his houshold believed in God for no man can believe in Christ before he be baptized into him for if he should say he believes he is in Christ he should believe a lie for no man can truly say he is in Christ before he is baptized into him and this caused Paul to say Andronicus and Junius his cousins and fellow-prisoners that were notable among the Apostles and were in Christ before me i. they were baptized before me professors and believers before me they were ingraffed into Christ before me when I was without Christ Ephes. 2. 12. and a murtherer If all be done in Baptisme that men be made good trees to bring forth none but good fruit and have perfect remission of all sins and an everlasting righteousnesse freely what need men repent or mortifie sin or pray for remission I answer though God hath sealed such a free covenant with us on his part yet we cannot know it untill we repent and believe and mortifie sin and pray for remission for these are to us-ward signes that the covenant of Grace was sealed upon us in baptisme to God-ward as that we were made so to himself a glorious Church not having spot to be holy and without blame Ephes. 5. 26. And as Athanasius that Champion of the truth saith that as a woman with childe by the springing of the Babe in her womb knoweth for certainty that she hath conceived fruit so the soul of a true believer knowes by the springs of his heart and by the inward joyes that he received the Holy Ghost in Baptisme Mark the word springs in the heart they are repentance mortification praying for remission mourning hungring and thirsting after righteousnesse love to Christ these would never have come up if no seed had been sown in Baptisme therefore he that is born of God is said to have seed remain in him which comes up afterward What Are the elect justified in Baptisme before God and receive the Holy Ghost there and are made Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in How can we believe this when we see many live loosly and walk in all kinde of sins a long time after I will not believe it except I could see some workings of the Holy Ghost in them I answer thou art a faithlesse Thomas that would not believe except he might see and feel did not Christ say to him and so to thee Be not faithlesse but believing blessed is he that believeth and hath not seen The Temple of Jerusalem was made you know for an holy house of prayer but if you had gone in Christs time you might have seen that they had brought in Oxen and Sheep and there was tables of the money-changers and seats of them that sold Doves and such a multitude of buyers and sellers that they had made the Temple of God a Den of thieves but they did not untemple it but it was a Temple still but Christ made a scourge of small cords and drove all the buyers and sellers out of the Temple So the elect by Baptisme are made the Temple of God for the Temple of God is holy which are ye 1 Cor. 3. 17. and they buy and sell Oxen and Sheep and Doves and bring in the tables of money-changers covetousnesse and usury and make the conscience a Den of thieves yet the man is not untempled therefore Christ will come to his Temple with a scourge of small cords of the Law and drive them sins out of the conscience and the Temple of God shall become a house of prayer that was made a Den of thieves therefore such Antinomians that will not have the Law preached will be wiser then Christ for Christ made a scourge of small cords i. of the Law for small sins saying thus He that is angry with his brother unadvisedly is culpable of judgement he hath broken the Law is accursed by the Law● he is of the Devill that loves not his brother 1 John 3. 10. all the curses of the Law belong to him for he that breaketh the Law in one point is guilty of all James 2. A second cord but he that saith unto his brother Rac●h i. gives a taunting speech to his brother in anger that is unadvised he is a greater sinner he is worthy to be condemned of a Councel he loves not his brother is of the Devill is cursed by the Law what will become of mockers and scoffers of their brethren A third small cord but he that saith unto his brother Thou fool is worthy to be punished with hell fire he is of Cain that hateth his brother and is a murtherer and you know that no murtherer hath eternall life abiding in him thou art a railer thou art cursed by the Law for not continuing in all things written in the Book of the Law to do the same Wo unto thee thou railer thou art shut out of the Kingdome of Heaven 1 Cor. 6. 10. What will become of you that practise railing against your brethren calling some Rogue Rascall Knave Villain Drab Puritain yea the most godly by one grosse name or other wo unto thee the Law tels thee thou art cursed and all crosses and calamities are punishments and plagues for thy sins Now if a spirituall murther be so great what is actuall killing A fourth small cord he that looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart or the woman on a man he hath broken the holy and pure Law of God is a damnable adulterer and accursed by the Law of God that saith Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the Law to do them Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13. 4. But thou continuest not as thy conscience tells thee Ergo thou art cursed by the Law Let these whip sin out of thy conscience and whip thee to Christ A fifth small cord Thou hast been an usurer or a seller that hast defrauded or cozened thy brother of a peny he or his wife or some of his children or childrens children or childrens childrens children to the end of the world may want that peny and starve and die for want of a

merry O well beloved Cant. 5. 1. for the first dish that you shall have at my supper saith Christ is the tree of life for to him that ●vercometh will I give to eat of the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God Rev. 2. 7. Eat of Christ therefore the tree of life at supper and drink his blood and make you merry Secondly you that are faithfull shall have a crown of life and not be hurt of the second death Rev 2. 10 11. Thirdly you shall have the hidden Manna this is good cheere indeed Eat O friends and make you merry for you shall have a white stone with a new name written that no man knoweth save he that receiveth it yea no man can understand these things that I write but he that hath the white stone Fourthly you that are bidden to the marriage-supper shall be a conquering people for you shall have power over nations and rule them with a rod of iron and break them in pieces like a Potters vessell and shall have the morning Star which is Jesus the root and the generation of David to be your light Rev. 22. 16. and Rev 2. 26. Fifthly be merry for you you shall be clothed with white-rayment and he will not blot out your names out of the book of life Rev. 3. 5. True faith in the White-rayment is an argument your names are written in the book of life Sixthly be merry in the Lord for he will make you a pillar in the Temple of God and you shall go no more out and I will write upon you the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which is the new Jerusalem which cometh down from my God out of heaven and my new name the new Christian a new creature Gal. 6. 16. Seventhly be merry for you shall fit with Christ in his Throne as he overcame and fit with the Father in his Throne Rev 3. 21. Eat therefore O friends drink and make you merry O well beloved much good do it you at this supper You see therefore that all the promises of the seven Churches run into the last which is ours and to the supper of the Lamb Therefore you see that the most conquering and raigning Church that ever arose in Christendome is now arising in England for you White-rayment Christians shall sit with Christ in his Throne therefore you shall raigne For Christ hath loved you and washed you from your sins in his own blood and made you Kings and Priests to God his Father and you shall raign on earth Rev. 5. 10. for Christ will be clothed in a garment dipt in blood shortly if he be not already and you the hosts of heaven shall follow him on white horses for you are clothed in ●ine linen white and pure Rev. 19. 13 14. There be many religions now in England and maay m●se which shall prevail some say the Papists some the Prelate some the Anabaptists some say the Brownists and every sect now think to prevail but I say the White-rayment Christians are the Israel of God that have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with Christ in white for they are worthy Rev. 3. 4. Peace be upon that Israel of God Gal. 6. 16. for they shall fit with Christ in his Throne Rev. 3. 21. And therefore because you can sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb Rev. 15. 2. therefore I set Moses blessing upon you Deut. 33. Blessed are thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and the sword of thy glory therefore thine enemies shall be in subjection unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places Christ is now shaking the heavens of the Churches and the earth of the Heathen now and shaking of the Churches sheweth the removing of those things that are shaken that the things which are not shaken may remain Heb. 12. 26. But the Churches of the Lutherans and of England are now shaken by a civill war they are Churches divided against themselves Ergo they must not stand but come to nought as Christ saith Mat. 12. 25. and Rome shall be shaken too and come to destruction Ergo they shall be removed from being Churches that the things which are not shaken may remain and that is the Church of the White-rayment Christians and citizens of the new Jerusalem which shall remain for we receive the Kingdome which cannot be shaken Heb. 12. 28. and are the pillars in the Temple of God Rev. 3. 12. Therefore leave your wrangling for a Discipline and heare Christs voyce for behold he knocketh and will never leave rapping untill you take his counsell in England to buy gold white-rayment and eye-salve mark he knocks to be let in for doctrine for scarce one of a thousand have bought these three say with the White-rayment Christians Thou shalt guide me by thy counsell and after receive me to a glorious Throne Psal. 73. 24. and city for they shall enter into the gates of the city and have right to the tree of life R●v 22. 14. And now deare friends I have set before you in this Book and in that of the blood of the Lamb as it were the two sides of Jacobs ladder whose foot was on earth but the top reached to Heaven and the Angels of heaven ascended and descended upon it Gen. 28. ●● The two sides of this ladder on earth are Baptisme and the blood of the Lamb though the foot of it be on earth 1 John 5. in visible signes yet the top of it reacheth to heaven for we are baptized into Christ in heaven and by faith feed upon Christ and are sprinkled with Christs blood in heaven The Angels of heaven will ascend and descend for your protection Heb. 1. You friends of the Bridegroom and children of the marriage-chamber that are clothed in white-raiment make much of this ladder for though the foot of it be on earth in water and blood yet it reacheth unto heaven unto Jesus that came by water and blood to send Angels down to you upon it they that have no faith in their baptisme into Christ and in the blood of the Lamb cannot tell whether the Angels of God descend or ascend for their protection as Heathens Jews Turks Devils Witches Papists and all unbelievers I have writ a little book of Good news for souldiers or the way to overcome the Devill by the blood of the Lamb I finde by Luke 21. 11. there is an earthquake pestilence and famine coming for thus saith my Lord and my God When ye heare of wars and seditions that nation rise against nation and kingdome against kingdome there shall be great earthquakes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. in according to or through those places and famine and pestilence Luke 21. 11. Mark 13. 8. these are the beginnings of sorrows But in England Scotland and Ireland we heare of wars and

Christendome Christ is come as a thief by the judgement of a plundering robbing spoyling stealing pillaging civill war upon all sects Here is an Ark for you to be saved in come unto your baptisme what foolery have you professed Can you get a better remission of sins then Christ hath procured for you in his own blood in your baptisme If you should wash your selves an hundred yeers with all your tears and mortification and holy walking though these may give some satisfaction to the conscience yet you cannot wash your selves more clean from sin before God then Christ hath made you in baptisme and by his blood And seeing Christ hath made you everlastingly righteous in baptisme by putting on of Christ you cannot make your selves more righteous before God by all the works in the world then the wedding garment hath made you already and if you go about to make your selves more righteous by works before God you defile his garments you may make your selves more righteous before men but you cannot make your selves more righteous or more holy then Christ hath made you in baptisme and therefore all you sects come to your baptisme into this Ark and be saved from the blood of Gods wrath coming upon Christendome for the contempt of Christs counsell And all you Sadduces that are prophane and loose livers that believe not your resurrection for you purifie not your selves as he is pure 1 John 3. 3. Come home to believe your baptisme and you shall have your part in the first resurrection for blessed and holy is he which hath part in the first resurrection and the second death shall have no power over you The first resurrection before God is in baptisme as Col. 2. 12. though before men it be at conversion and faith Bring forth fruits worthy of amendment of life i. bring forth fruits in Christ believe you are in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ and let this faith cause you to bring forth fruits of piety and charity And think not to say we have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham He told them of their thoughts nourish not such proud thoughts as these that you have Abraham to your father you have a Church you have the Word and you have Sacraments you are the children of the martyrs for I tell you all you are cursed by the Law for not continuing in all things written in the book of the Law to do them and therefore come and believe your baptisme or else you are cursed for ever For God is able of these stones yea stony hearted people by baptisme to raise up children unto Abraham and give them faith to believe it Gal. 3. 9. and to take away the stony heart and give them hearts of flesh Ezek. 36. 26. For Now the ax is laid to the root of the trees every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into he fire Now Christ is come by baptisme and faith to make you good trees to bring forth none but good fruit every tree every church or sect or particular man that bringeth forth sin before God is hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath Every man or church that will not believe his baptisme that by it he is baptized into Christ and ingraffed into him and made a good tree in Christ and bring forth good fruit before God he is hewn down by the Law and cast into the fire of Gods wrath for he believeth not that he hath the Son that he hath his blood that hath washed him from all his sins before God nor Christs righteousnesse to make him everlastingly righteous therfore the wrath of God abideth upon him John 3. vers. last What is meant by the Ax It is taken materially for an●…strument to cut down trees So Deut. 20. 19. Thou shalt not cut down the fruit trees with an ax when thou besiegest a city for thou mayest eat of them for the tree of the field is mans life but it is taken metaphorically for Gods Decree and Judgement as in this place Now is the decree of God come forth that every one that is not made a good tree by baptisme into Christ is hewn down and cast into wrath In the time of the Law there was sacrifice for wrath but now baptisme for men to get into Christ now no more sacrifice for wrath So Dan. 4. 11. 14. 21. Hew him down is the Decree of the most High So Zeph. 2. 1 2. Gather your selves together gather your selves together O nation not worthy to be beloved before the decree come forth for Gods decrees are never to be recalled The ax at the root is baptisme What is meant by trees Metaphorically by trees are meant men as is plain by Jothams Parable Judg. 9. 8. The trees went forth to anoint a king over them and they said to the Olive Come thou raigne over us but the Olive said Should I leave my fatnesse whereby by me they honour God and man and go to advance me above the trees No I am content with my estate to honour God in that estate I am created I will be content with my calling to honour God and man in that I must forsake my fatnesse and by taking of an higher calling of a King I may so dishonour God and man and the Fig-tree would not forsake his sweetnesse and good fruit to be a King nor the Vine would not forsake his wine whereby he cheered God and man to be King to which he was not called of God he should displease God and man but the Bramble would be King though most unfit for it that would do no good to them but scratch and fire them Also where the tree falleth there it lieth whether towards the South or the North Eccles. 11. 3. i. in what estate men die whether in a good estate or bad to heaven-ward or to hell so they lie So the persecutors of Jeremiah said Let us destroy the tree with the fruit i. let us destroy Jeremiah and his Prophesie Let us destroy the Preacher and his preaching but thou Lord God of Sabaoth that judgest right let me see thy vengeance upon them Jer. 11. 19. declaring the destiny of all such as plot to destroy a faithfull Pastor and the tree to be hewn down was Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. 21. So Jude 12. Corrupt trees whose fruit withereth twice dead and plucked up by the roots are men that are dead by originall sin and then dead by actuall sin Reprobates that cannot repent are cast into the fire of Gods wrath and then heap up wrath against the day of wrath and of the declaration of the just judgement of God Rom. 2. 5. What is meant by hewn down i. They are cut down before God that refuse or will not believe baptisme by Gods Law and Decree for as Samuel hewed