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A84341	Good nevves for all Christian souldiers. Or The way to overcome the devill by the bloud of the lambe. As it was delivered in a sermon / by John Eachard, pastour of Darsham in Suffolke. Published according to order.	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1645 (1645)	Wing E48; Thomason E271_6; ESTC R212214	40,704	48

a childe of four yeers old can Answ Though faith be hard to the carnall sense not yet inspired yet it is easie to the mind inlightened for as Salomon saith Knowledge is easie to him that will understand Prov. 14. 6. i. if he be willing and love it so faith is easie to him that will believe not that it is in mans power but where the Spirit of God works a desire to ask seek and knock Wisdome will open the door for none that come unto me put I away saith Christ Quest Quest What is the reason then that so many never get faith for the assurance of salvation Answ Answ. 1. Because they ask amisse not in faith of the blood of the Lamb that hee hath washed them from their sins in his owne blood in Baptisme Rev. 1. 5. If they misse this mark they shoot wide of the assurance of salvation For if I wash thee not thou hast no part in me Joh. 13. 8. Secondly because they seek faith in themselves carnall reason fleshly devices by wit of mans phantasie and not in the blood of the Lamb the god of this world blindeth their minds that the glorious Gospel of the blood of the Lamb and his white raiment should not shine to them Thirdly because they oppose the doctrine of free justification by Christs blood and righteousnesse and wink at it and imbrace not the purity of that doctrine but count it an errour and receive not the love of the truth they are given over to believe an error and falsities which can give thee no assurance of salvation Fourthly because they turn to the greatest multitude which scoff at and persecute the truth God gives them over to walk in blindnesse as the Pharisees did Sleight 3 The third sleight that faith is needlesse there is more need of works many prate of faith but let me see good works a good hope is enough with good works Answ I answer that there is great need of faith for works severed from faith are abominable before God Heb. 11. 6. And if a good hope were enough why did the Apostles pray Lord increase our faith Luk. 17. 5. and Mark 9. 24. For as all things are possible to him that believeth so all things are impossible to him that believeth not Heb. 11. 6. Sleight 4 The 4th sleight Thy faith is not sound but counterfeit thou an hypocrite thy faith is mixed with imperfections sins wavering Answ I answer I prove my faith by the causes for he hath given us a mind to know him which is true and we are in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ the same is very God and eternall life 1 Joh. 5. 20. And this is the true Jesus that came by water and blood not by water of baptisme only but by water and blood and it is the Spirit that beareth witnesse i. to my spirit that I am a child of God Rom. 8. 16. and that Spirit is truth 1 Joh. 5. 6. therefore having my heart sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb from an evill conscience and my body washed with pure water i. in baptisme I may keep my profession without wavering Heb. 10. 23. This faith worketh by love and a desire to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. Vse 1 Is it so that the faithfull overcome the Devill by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony You see Christian souldiers that love not your lives unto the death and therefore you that give up your bodies and souls living and acceptable sacrifices unto God which is your reasonable service of God and lay down your lives for the brethren and for the Gospel are to be honoured as martyrs You see that by true faith in the blood of the Lamb you shall overcome the Devill because you give testimony to the holinesse of God Let this move all you that are souldiers of Jesus Christ to give glory to the holinesse of God in keeping your bodies chast and pure and Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in for the Temple of God is holy which are yee 1 Cor. 3. 17. If you say you give glory to the holinesse of God give him glory in keeping your selves holy Temples of God But if any man destroy the Temple of God him shall God destroy Hee that destroyes it by whoredom for thereby thou becomest one flesh with an whore Latrina Diaboli for as the Temple of God was destroyed when it was made a Jakes so is the Temple of God destroyed when it is made the devils Jakes for he that is made one flesh with an whore which is the Devils Jakes is thereby made the Devils Jakes but all whoremongers are made one flesh with his whore that is the devils jakes Ergo they are made the devils jakes and so the Temple of God is destroyed and therefore their destiny is to be destroyed that do not repent for Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13. 4. he will destroy such as destroy the Temple of God therefore you may perceive such to prove cowards for fearfulness goes before destruction and an high mind before a fall There is a conceit among souldiers that Wine will make men valiant but it is false for whoredome wine and new wine take away the heart i. whoredom drunkenness make men arrant cowards Hos. 4. 11. For whoredome drunkenness make an evill conscience and an evill conscience make men fearfull and flee where no fear is Prov. 28. 1. For an evill conscience and the curse of God runs after him and will overtake him Vse 2 Is it so that by the word of your testimony of the blood of the Lamb you overcome the Devill by giving glory to the wisdome of God then let this faith guide you to follow his wisdome and deny your own as the Psalmist said Thou shalt guide me by thy counsell and afterward receive me to glory Psal. 73. 24. And therefore as David did so do you ask counsell of the Lord for every battell at the Oracle of Gods Word i. whether God doth allow it or no as Jehosaphat said 1 King 22. 5. Ask counsell I pray thee of the Lord of day for there can be no war or battell lawfull but that wee may finde some warrant out of the Word of God that doth warrant it to be lawfull so shall you be sure both to overcome your spirituall enemy the Devill by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony and also your temporall enemies by faith in that blood and by the word of your testimony for should not a people inquire at their God signifying yes they should to the Law and to the testimony if they speak or fight not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa. 8. 20. So shall you say Thou hast made me wiser then mine enemies by thy commandments for they are ever with me Psal. 119. 98 my delight and counsels Vse 3 Is it so that

Reason Because when Satan fights against you by the feare of hell saying O thou hast sinned so many thousand times when I sinned but once I was cast out of heaven and throwne downe to hell and reserved in chaines of darknesse but thou hast deserved hell many thousand times why shouldest not thou goe to hell thou must shew Satan the bloud of the Lamb and in that thy victory over hell and say with Paul O hell where is thy victory thou hast no victory over me for here is my discharge and victory in the bloud of the Lamb hell is for murderers it is for thee Satan that wast a murderer from the beginning and therefore hell hath victory over thee for hell is prepared for the Devill and his Angels but heaven for you that overcome by the bloud of the Lamb For to him that overcometh will I give to sit with me in my Throne as I overcame and sit with my Father in his Throne Revel. 3. 21. Reason 5 A fift Reason Because Christs bloud makes men conquerers already over the world the flesh and the Devill for Christs victory is ours for he that can say by faith Thankes be unto God that hath given us victory is a conquerer already But all true beleevers can say so 1 Cor. 15. Ergo they are conquerers already Againe All that are saved already by the bloud of the Lamb are conquerers already But all true beleevers are saved already as Eph. 2. 8. 2 Tim. 1. 9. They are conquerers already i. to faith though not to feeling for you are conquerers over the world by faith as 1 Joh. 5. For this is our victory that overcometh the world even our faith And you are conquerers over the flesh by self-deniall and mortification for he that so conquereth himselfe is better then he that winneth a Citie and you are conquerers over the Devill by the bloud of the Lamb as the Text Reason 6 A sixt Reason why Because faith in the bloud of the Lamb makes you more then conquerers as Rom. 8. 37. How can that be may some say Can a man get more then the victory I answer By faith in the bloud of the Lamb if thou wilt beleeve thou art washed in it by Baptisme it makes thee such a famous renowned conquerer that thou shalt be a noble triumpher for ever in Christ which is more then a conquerer for as concerning conquerers of this world they may have victory to day and lose it to morrow as Saul did and many conquerers in the world as Alexander when he had conquered the world he was conquered of his own lust Gladio vicit vitiis victus he overcame by the sword but was overcome of vice but he that gets victory by the bloud of the Lamb is more then a conquerer because he is a conquerer over sinne the world and Devill through Christ for ever Objection Objection How can this be Doth not the Devill cast some into prison and persecute some to death how are they then conquerers over him Answer I answer 'T is true Satan shall cast some of you into prison that you may be tryed ten dayes Rev. 2. 9. 'T is but for a triall of your faith in the bloud of the Lamb God will deliver you as he did Joseph out of prison and though Satan persecute some to death yet shall you be more then conquerers even triumphers in heaven for as the Martyrs were more then conquerers in foure respects so shall you be 1. In regard of the torments they put the Martyrs to death to make them deny the bloud of Christ they rejoyced in tribulation as the Disciples when whipped rejoyced that they were counted worthy to suffer any thing for Christs sake they were more then conquerers by the joy which they have in suffering but conquerers of men or Cities when they have got the greatest victories may sit downe and weepe as Titus Vespasianus when he had conquered and saw the destruction of Jerusalem wept to see the greatnesse of the misery of his enemies saying This is not I but the hand of God for their sinnes but triumphant joy belongs to the conquerers by Christs bloud as Haukes in the Acts and Monuments pag. 1447. in token of triumphant victory to give a signe to his friends when his eyes were burnt out and his hands on a flaming fire yet lifted up both the stumps of his hands and clapped them over his head declaring he was more then a conquerer 2. They are more then conquerers in respect of the tormentors for they strive to make them deny the bloud of Christ but the true beleevers for all their torments confesse Christ so much the more the one fumes and chafes that he hath not his will and is overcome but the Christian rejoyceth and goes away with the victory as the tormentors of Blandina confessed that shee overcame them 3. They are more then conquerers in regard of the unconverted for they put them to death that they may convert no more but as Sampson slew more Philistims at his death then he did in all his life so doe the Martyrs often convert more at their death then they did in any time before for when men seek to conquer Christianitie it conquers them saith Justin Martyr as the Papists confessed in the Marian dayes it was in vaine to burne any more Hereticks as they called them for the more they burnt the more they increased and the converted were the more confirmed by the patient sufferings of the Martyrs because they would suffer for it they beleeved it was the truth 4. We are more then conquerers because we slay our enemies with their own sword Bis perimitur qui suo gladio interimitur he is double slaine that is killed with his own sword for true beleevers take the sword out of their own hands and kill them with it as David did Goliah with his owne sword so said the Martyrs Thou sittest here to judge me but I shall judge thee one day thou by killing my body crownest me with life but killest thy selfe with eternall death as 1 Joh. 3. 15. Thus the sword which the wicked have drawne shall goe through their owne bowels Vse Well is it so Satan fights against thee with sinne the curse of the Law with death and hell Learne thou to disarme the Devill as it is a speciall poynt of policie in warre to disarme their enemies for so they shall deale with them as they list so seeing Satan is the strong man armed with sinne and the rest but as Christ disarmed him of all these by his death so shalt thou by the bloud of the Lambe disarme Satan of all his armour First for sinne Doth Satan tell thee thou art a great sinner display the red colours of Christs bloud tell him 't is true I confesse I am by Adam a great sinner and if I were not a sinner I should not need the bloud of the Lamb for he came not to call the