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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

in part which is the abomination of Antichrist but God knows their hearts i. to be evill trees Luke 16. 15. Now they bear themselves in hand that they were good and righteous men though they brought forth some fruit that was evill before God they should sacrifice for that and take it away well enough but they were deceived for John telleth them now baptisme is instituted to wash away all sins now you must make the tree good and the fruit good i. the person and the actions all good through the remission of sins in baptisme or the tree evill and the fruit evill i. the person evill by Adam for every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit i. if it bring forth any evill fruit before God now baptisme is administred it is hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath Christ hath done nothing for them For all men now that baptisme is administred are in Adam or in Christ either they are regenerate of water and the Spirit or else they are not either they are ingraffed into Christ by baptisme and made good trees or else they are not ingraffed but are stil in Adam This the Lord shewed in a vision to Jeremiah by the two baskets of Figs the one had exceeding good Figs even like the first that are first ripe the other had exceeding naughty Figs they were so evill the Lord in this place saith the Expositor hath respect unto the Kingdome of Christ in which both Jews and Gentiles being ingraffed by faith and baptisme they are made good trees of the celestiall Paradise to bring forth good fruit and the other that are evill by Adam should have all the curses and plagues of God to seise upon them and be under wrath For thus saith the Lord of the men of Jerusalem that have obeyed me I will know them to be good but the evill I will give them for a terrible plague So 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 the fire Erasmus in the old Latine translation It is hewn down in this present time 't is laid to the root of all bad trees that bear evill fruit and of such as bear no fruit as the unprofitable Fig-tree that bare nothing but leaves was cursed and the tree the Lord came three yeers seeking for fruit and finding none he saith Hew it down why combreth it the ground it hath been digged by the Law and dunged these three yeers of Q. Elizabeths King James and King Charles and I find no fruits of faith in this lukewarm Hierarchie and people the sword is come to cut thee down that combred the ground For seeing now Christ is come and appointed Baptisme which is the righteous branch of the root of David every one that is not by baptisme and faith ingraffed into him and made a good tree bearing good fruit is hewne downe by the Law and cursed of God and cast into the fire of Gods wrath that will burne to the bottome of hell but to so many as received him he gave prerogative to become the sonnes of God So many as beleeve in his Name And what are they Ans. Such as are borne of God Joh. 1. 12. Whereby we see how men are made good trees by receiving Christ by baptisme and by beleeving but all others have the wrath of God abiding upon them because they are evill trees and the axe of the curses of the Law will cut them downe or the sword or famine or pestilence For though God let many trees alone in the time of the Law that bare some fruit good and some bad as Moses Miriam David Jehosaphat for which they did sacrifice and God was appeased and some branches of the Israelites were hewne off by the axe of the Law because they bare bad fruits before God of Idolatry as the Danites and the Ephraimites yet Judah bare good fruit as Hosea 11. 12. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies and the house of Israel with deceit but Judah yet ruleth with God and is faithfull with the Saints But now seeing Christ is come and appointed baptisme to graff all men into Christ to be made branches of the vine Christ .i. to be taken out of Adam and of the Law to be graffed into Christ Now if any man abide not in me or will not be graffed into me by baptisme and faith for baptisme is the foundation of the lively faith baptisme that is the worke of the Father Sonne and the holy Ghost wherein is not onely water but water and bloud and the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the holy Ghost if any branch of man abide not in Christ by faith in his baptisme into Christ that he is made a good tree of righteousnesse to beare good fruit before God he is cast forth as a branch and withereth .i. in the assurance of salvation and bring forth no fruits of righteousnesse before God and men gather them and by Excommunication or in the judgement of men are judged none of the Church and they cast them into the fire of Gods wrath and they burne Now men are cut off from Christ three wayes First When a man forsakes his baptisme and turnes Turke and will be circumcised or turnes Witch that will make a Covenant with the Devill to deny her baptisme and deny God and Christ or turne Anabaptist to be rebaptized he doth not abide in his baptisme into Christ these will have a new baptisme which is not of God for he hath but one the second must be of the Devill these are gathered in the judgement of all Churches and justly excommunicated and cast into the fire of Gods wrath Such as turne Turkes Witches or Anabaptists have denied their first baptisme because they have trod underfoot the bloud wherewith they were sanctified and done despight to the Spirit of Grace and withdrawne themselves to perdition Heb. 10. Secondly Men are cut off that by hypocrisie fall from Grace given of God in baptisme to seek for remission of sinnes in whole or in part or to make himselfe righteous in whole or in part before God and will not beleeve he hath free remission of all his sinnes by the bloud of Christ in baptisme and an everlasting righteousnesse given of God freely in his baptisme when he puts on Christ that man is cut off to his faith that he does not abide in Christ and then seekes for remission of sinnes and righteousnesse in some of mans invention these abide not in Christ Thirdly Men wither in this faith and are cut off to their apprehension which have forgotten they were washed from their old sinnes i. in baptisme 2 Pet. 1. 9. and fall to a beastly life and Epicurisme which by repentance and faith in their Baptisme may get out of this snare of the Devill of whom they are taken prisoners to doe his will 2 Tim. 2.

written in heaven through this golden cleer glasse of thy baptisme which thou receivedst in thine Infancy and now walk in this golden street by faith you may be assured and rejoyce that your names are written in heaven Luke 10. 20. Quest How know you that Answ. There be three which beare record in heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost these three are one and beare record in heaven that he hath given you a new name Rev. 2. 17. in baptisme for all your names were Adam before Gen. 5. 2. but they beare record that he hath given you a new name and his own new name Rev. 3. 12. And there be three which bear record in earth the Spirit and water and blood these three agree in one that your names are written in heaven for to whomsoever God hath given eternall life which life is in his Son Jesus Christ his name is written in heaven But the three in heaven and the three in earth do bear witnesse that he hath given you eternall life 1 John 5. 7 8. 11. Ergo your names are written in heaven that believe it on this ground and you are let into Paradise again for though Adam and all his children were shut out of it and the Cherubim with a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the tree of life Gen. 3. which signifieth this axe of the fiery Law Deut. 33. 2 given by Angels Acts 7. 53. keepeth every man from the Paradise of assurance of salvation for this axe of the Law cuts men off and shuts them out every way for originall or actuall sins mans merits or humane righteousnesse whosoever hath but one sin is cut down by the Law But by your baptisme into Christ you are let into Paradise again and have now right and title by your baptisme and by faith to eat of all the trees in the garden i. title to all things to be yours and you are Christs 1 Cor. 3. And you may eate of the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God Rev. 2. 7. that is of Christ in the Supper and be more sure of eternall life then the tree of life could have made Adam and shall be kept in the Paradise of Gods protection For thus saith the Lord Because you have kept the word of my patience I will deliver thee from the hour of temptation that is come upon all the world to try them that are upon the face of the earth Rev. 3. 10. Now what is the word of Christs patience but the faith of baptisme into Christ crucified for the remission of our sins for the word of Christs patience is the faith in Christ crucified which Paul desired only to know 1 Cor. 2. Now what is a man the better to say I believe Christ was crucified dead and buried except he keep the faith of it for remission of his sins for the devills believe so much But the word of Christs patience which you keep is this that you say and believe that I am in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 5. 20. in whom I am crucified and dead and buried and risen again with Christ in my baptisme into Christs death for the remission of sins and have put on Christ Rom. 6. ● 4 Col. 2. 12. Gal. 3. 27. That Church that keeps the word of Christs patience i. faith in their baptisme into Christs death for remission of sins though they knew not what Christ did for them when he washed them as he told Peter John 1● but know it afterward shall be delivered from this houre of temptation but all other religious plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out The axe of the Law cuts them off for one sin before God but he that is holy and true saith be that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Mark 16. 16. that is he that believeth one baptisme into Christ for remission of sins shall be saved but he that believeth not his one baptisme into Christ for remission of his sins shall be damned as Heathens Turks Jews Witches and Apostates that have denied it For this is the Catholike faith I believe one Baptisme for the remission of sins which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved the axe cut them off Now when men have lost this Paradise then they must go till the earth full of false religions all serve an angry God The Heathen run to Jupiter the Turks to Mahumet the Jewes to Moses ceremonies the Papists to Saints to Pilgrimage a wildernesse and Purgatory Lo here is Christ say the Papists in the Popes chaire and pardon Lo here is Christ say the Luberans in consubstantiation and lo here is Christ say the Anabaptists in our new Jordan and yet it carries them into the lake Asphaltes mare mortuum the dead sea for he that denieth his first baptisme to take a second it is a dead and damnable sin as Heb. 6. 4 5 6. and Heb 10. 29. ●5 38. Lo there say all sects in our Church way and yet never a one of them have assurance of salvation because they have not faith in one baptisme for remission of sins for no man can have the knowledge of salvation but by the remission of sins as Luke 1. 77. Well you see the houre of temptation is come a flood of judgements flow upon earth for sin Here is an axe for you to cut down sin and an ark for you white-rayment Christians and citizens of the new Jerusalem namely the ark of our baptisme into Christs death for remission of sins It hath been building in England about an hundred yeeres you only have God seen righteous in this generation an end of all false religions is come and God will destroy them with the earthly men Enter you your wives and your children into the faith of this Ark but leave not your children out of this Ark nor take a new one for that is cursed Gal. 1. 8 9. For as the Ark saved Noah so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the same Antitype which now saveth us Baptisme the translators were to blame to call it a figure for there is as much difference between a figure and an antitype as between the brazen Serpent and Christ 1 Pet. 3. 21. meaning of the inward Baptisme Now as you know many before the flood might come into the A●k and look upon it and yet because they did not abide in it they all perished So now a ●lood of Gods judgements are come in this hour of temptation and many people have seen baptisme and been within it sacramentally but all that do not stay in it by faith shall perish Therefore little children abide in him that were shut or graffed into him by one baptisme that when he shall appeare we may be bold 1 Iohn 2 28. for behold Christ standeth at the dore and knocks in Laodicca in England and he will not leave

many shal rejoyce at his birth because he shall have a new birth for parents may have great joy and gladnesse at the new birth of their children for he shall be great before the Lord although the wicked world shall contemne him and say he hath a devil yet he shall be great for he shall be a Baptist They are the greatest before the Lord that preach most soundly of Baptisme Paul the greatest of the Apostles preached most of Baptisme Luther was famous for Baptisme and Calvin the fourth Angel and name any that ever was famous in the Church that was not sound in the faith of his baptisme for no Anabaptist nor any other shall be great before the Lord in his Church which is not sound in that point that do not thunder out the Law to men that may drive them to the faith of their Baptisme in Infancie He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mothers womb which is not so to be understood that all the elect do now receive the Holy Ghost in their mothers womb but that all the elect should receive the Holy Ghost in their mothers womb of the Church which is baptisme in their Infancie when their godly parents i. all the true Church pray for the holy Spirit to be given to their Infants For why should not the Lord give his holy Spirit to Infants at baptisme as well as to John And as Peter told the Jews Be baptized and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink i. he shall be no drunken Minister the Holy Ghost shall teach him sobriety And he shall convert many of the children of Israel unto the Lord God The Baptist and all that preach most soundly of Baptisme convert most to Christ I have observed that those men and that those Ministers that have preached the Law and Baptisme most soundly amongst men have converted most and the reason why so few are converted in these dayes because few preach the Law cleerly in the spirituall breach and Baptisme as Luther prophesied Baptisme after his time would be lost so there be few preach Baptisme cleerly to make the tree good and the fruit good for the tree is evill and the fruit evill by Adam And here is the rule to know all Sermons to be good or bad by converting or not if they make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill as it is Christs own rule Mat. 12. 33. This is the first main ground of a faithfull Minister to prove all his Doctrine and Sermons by if he misse this ground he cast out his net on the wrong side and catch no fish convert no souls though he labour all his life This is the right side that Christ bad Peter cast out the net on i. the net of the Gospel to make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill and this is the reason why hearers get no assurance of salvation because they do follow such Preachers that make neither the tree good nor the fruit good nor the tree evill nor the fruit evill but partly good and partly bad We must do something to make our selves good before God which is the greatest abomination that Antichrist can set up against God to affirm that we can make our selves righteous in whole or in part as the Homily of our Church for then Christ died in vain Now seeing John the Baptist was fore-prophesied of by so many Prophets and by so many Apostles and by Christ himself that a greater then John have not sprung up among them that have been born of women that he was a burning and a shining candle and thus testified by an Angel from heaven Let us believe his baptisme was from Heaven let us know that those that are Baptists that preach most of Baptisme their doctrine is most heavenly and they shall convert most to the Lord for they point most to the Lamb of God that hath taken away the sins of the world who drew all his obedient hearers by preaching the Law from the sundry sorts of sects 1. to Baptisme and then shewed them Christ the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world Wherefore hearken to this Elias Repent and receive Christ the Lamb of God by Baptisme to take away your sins for so many as received him to them he hath given prerogative to become the sons of God so many as believe in his name which are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God So he that would draw all the sects and divisions of England into one he must first thunder out the Law and shew how cursed they are all because they have not taken Christs counsell Rev. 3. 18. Then he must bring them to the faith of their Baptisme he must teach them there is one God one Faith one Baptisme and he that does not gather with John and Christ too into Baptisme scatter and here is the cause of all the sects and divisions in all the Churches in Christendome for when men have lost Baptisme some will have justication from all eternity some from the crosse all born and unborn some in the womb some at faith some at conversion some at death and some after death and then they must go wash to get remission of sins Thus he that gathers not into Christ by Baptisme scattereth abroad for except I wash thee thou shalt have no part with me so except thou take thy part with Christ from thy Baptisme thou canst have no assurance of salvation John preached saying Repent for the kingdome of heaven is at hand this is not only to be understood that he preached nothing else but the summe of his doctrine was by the Law he shewed them what horrible sinners they were the generation of Vipers detest your sins and your own righteousnesse believe in the Messias he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire for all that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ for in our Baptisme we received remission of our sins in the death of Christ into which we were baptized and buried and in Christ we received everlasting righteousnesse in whom by baptisme we are raised and he preached the kingdome of heaven is hand because Baptisme was at hand for where Baptisme is truly preached there the kingdome of heaven is at hand Christ and his righteousnesse is at hand in Baptisme peace is at hand to them that believe their baptisme they have peace with God and assurance of salvation and all the sects and professors of England have no peace with God nor assurance of salvation but they that believe they have peace with God from their baptisme into Christ in infancy and joy in the Holy Ghost is at hand by Baptisme as the Eunuch found true and the Jaylor and