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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

we are made members of his body of his flesh and of his bone i. spirituall members straitly coupled together unto him for seeing Christ hath loved his Church and sanctified it and cleansed it through the washing of the water through the Word Ephes. 5. 26. he so made us to himself a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blame vers. 27. and by that Baptisme are we made members of his body of his flesh and of his bones as vers. 30. And therefore Christ doth feed us with his body and blood by faith that we might dwell in Christ and Christ in us that we might be certain that we are incorporated into him by Baptisme Therefore he took flesh of the Virgine to testifie that he acknowledgeth us for his members for Christ may as truly say of his elect that are baptized into Christ and have put on Christ as Adam said of Evah when she was married to him She is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh so Christ may say of all the elect that are married to him by Baptisme They are members of my body of my flesh and of my bones And by this means i. by Baptisme and by faith is the heart made a good treasure for God said I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your filthinesse and a new heart and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the stony heart and give you an heart of flesh Ezek. 36. 25 26. and this heart is purified by faith Acts 15. 9. for when the heart is made pure it is made a good treasure for all things are pure to it so that as it is said on the one side of them that are not sanctified that the unbelieving and impure they are defiled Tit. 1. 15 16. But also as the Prophet Hagg●i crieth out so are all the works of these peoples hands and that which they offer in the Temple is unclean Hag. 2. 15. signifying all comes from an unclean treasure So on the other side to the pure that is to them that are washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and the Spirit of our God in Baptisme and their hearts purified from their sins by faith in the blood of the Lamb all things are pure and all the works of their hands what they offer in the Temple is made good fruit in the Spirit of God freely and thereby acceptable in the sight of God whom nothing can please but that which is pure and hereupon David giveth this answer to his own question Who shall dwell in the Tabernacle of the Lord and who shall rest in his holy hill even he that hath innocent hands which no man can have but by remission of sins in Baptisme wherein a mans hands are washed in Christs innocency and a pure heart which Christians obtain by faith in the blood of Christ Thus having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water we may keep our profession without wavering Heb. 10. 22 23. with innocent hands and a pure heart which shall see God Mat. 5. Men are made good trees by putting on Christs white rayment righteousnesse as a garment as Gal. 3. 27. Now if a man had such a garment that would make all his thoughts words and works good it would make him a good tree Adam you know hath so clothed all naturall men that he hath made all their thoughts words and actions evill shall we not grant as much to Christ to make the tree good and the fruit good If a man can bring a green tree to grow over a drie the green tree will make the drie green also and finde sap enough and make it bring forth much fruit as we have seen in a part of a tree being green growing over a dead and drie part it makes it fruitfull So Christ is a green tree and we drie as he saith If they have done thus to t●… green tree what shall be done to the drie Answ Truly if Christ do not grow over it and over the fruit of it it shall burne Men are made good trees by his Spirit for by one Spirit we are baptized into one body and made all to drink into one Spirit i. in Baptisme we are regenerate and new born of water and the Spirit that we might be one spirituall body whereof Christ is the head and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Therefore in the Supper we drink the blood of Christ that we might be made partakers more and more of the Spirit of Christ to be all of one minde and spirit Now he that bringeth forth fruit before God in the Spirit of Christ shall be saved otherwise he is hewn down and cast into the fire What are none made good trees but those that are graffed and baptized into Christ to bring forth good fruit before God Was not Cornelius his prayer and almes good fruit before God which came up to God before Baptisme Acts 10. And what say you of Infants dying before Baptisme I answer that Cornelius did pray in faith that Christ was to come as the Jews did before his coming which brought forth some fruits of faith that Christ should come and take away their sins and they brought forth some bad fruits of transgression of the Law as David for which they sacrificed Now therefore Cornelius being an elect vessell that he might not stand in a twofold estate before God to bring forth some fruit good and some bad God sent an Angel from Heaven to him and bade him send for Peter and he shall shew thee what thou oughtest to do i. to be made a good tree to bring forth nothing but good fruit signifying he shall shew thee by faith in the death and resurrection of Christ and by baptisme into Christ the tree shall be made good and fruit good Matth. 12. 33. For by the Law they were under the heavy yoak that we nor our fathers were able to beare which bare some good fruits and some cursed as Jehosaphat 2 Chro. 19. 2. and Hezekiah 2 Chron. 23. 25. Now if a twofold estate had been good enough for Cornelius what needed an Angel be sent from Heaven to send for Peter to bring him into a better estate before God then he was in which shews that we have now a better estate before God by Baptisme into Christ then the Fathers had under the Law as the Apostle saith God providing a better thing for us Heb. 11. 40. we have a perfect remission of sins and no more sacrifice for sin are with one offering made perfect for ever that are sanctified and how is that by Baptisme Ephes. 5. 26. and by Faith Acts 26. 18. by Baptisme to the person and by faith to the conscience as Heb. 10.

knocking with judgements till they take his counsell Rev. 3. 18. if any man will heare my voyce saith he and open the dore I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me You see Christ raps loud with the sword and cannons and he will knock with an earth-quake and with pestilence Luke 21. 11. In England and Scotland where are Saints with the sword and pestilence but in Ireland where are most Idolaters with sword and famine reasons I give in a book to come out in Christs knock at the dores of England Now is it not good letting of Christ in to sup with us and we with him when hee knocks and calls to us to take his counsel to buy of him gold to make us rich in the lively faith of the merits of Christs death in baptisme for a perfect remission of sins for he likes not this lukewarm lame remission of sins to halfes which many professe and white-rayment justification to cloath us that the shame of our nakednesse may not appeare and eye-salve of the Spirit that takes of Jesus water and blood to witnesse to your spirits you are the children of God Rom. 8. 17. that thou mayst see Rev. 3. 18. Christ will not leave rebuking and chastising England and knocking till they heare and let him in Now therefore let the loynes of your minds be girt about with verity and your lamps of faith burning Luke 12. 35. and ye your selves like men that wait for their Master when he will return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find waking i. in the wedding garment Verily I say unto you he will gird himself about and will make them sit down at table and will come forth and serve them and if he come at the second watch or in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants vers. 36 37. Now you blessed White-rayment Christians understand that Christ our Master is now returning from the wedding for I believe not any more Churches of the Gentiles before the marriage of the Lamb to the Iews shall be called and the third watch is come and the dawning of the day of the Iews is at hand and our Master now knocketh the dinner of the wedding of the Gentiles hath lasted about 1623. for the marriage of the Gentiles was called a dinner Mat. 22. 4. and the marriage dinner was furnished with guests of good and bad for all had not a wedding garment and therefore bad Now as noble Bridegrooms often times will bid a multitude to dinner but none but his speciall friends are bidden to supper So Christ the most noble Bridegroom hath bidden seven Churche● of the Gentiles to the dinner of the marriage and now he is returning from the wedding of the Gentiles and he knocks and calls Rev. 3. 20. Blessed are you that let him in immediately for he calls for you his friends the White rayment Christians to come to supper Give me leave to shew you the friends of the Bridegroom why Christ now knocks and calls in England it is to call you to supper all that were bidden to the wedding-dinner were not blessed But now he saith write Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb these are the true sayings of God Rev. 19. 9. The wedding-dinner is past and Christ is returning from the wedding as Luke 12. 36. and behold he standeth at the dore and knocks in England with the sword and pestilence let him in for it seems some have not let him yet say it is the voyce of my well beloved that knocks saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled for mine head is full of dew and my locks with the drops of the night Cant. 5. 2. for men that are let in use not to knock but those that are shut out Christ is about to marry his wife of the Iewes that shall make her self ready by baptisme and faith and he will grant to her to be clothed in fine linen bright and pure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the justifications of the Saints Rev. 19. 8. And now Christ knocks at the dore in England to call his friends to go with him to the marriage-supper with his wife and will begin his supper in England he will sup with them Rev. 3. 20. The most rarest junkets are kept for the marriage-supper Now therefore heark hee sayes I will sup with him that lets me in and he with me see how Esdras prophesied of you 2 Esdras 2. 38. Arise and stand up and behold the number of those that are sealed for the feast of the Lord which are departed from the shadow of the world and have received glorious garments of the Lord Take thy number O Sion and shut up them that are clothed in white which have fulfilled the Law of the Lord Here you see he prophesied of you White-rayment Christians sealed for the feast as Christ doth Rev. 3. 4. 18. 16. 15. Now therefore all you that have put on Christ in infant-baptisme Gal. 3. 27. and made your long robes white in the blood of the Lamb as my Sermon of the blood of the Lamb declares prepare a supper for Christ the cheere must be prepared of hearts My son give me thy heart and it must be broken and contrite for he loves no stones that will not break for the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit A br●ken and a centrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psal. 51. 17. Secondly these hearts must be served in at your supper in gold that he counselleth you to buy of him Rev. 3. 18. which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death in one baptisme for remission of sins for thus Peter served in three thousand hearts that were pricked by the Law in baptisme in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins Acts 2. 38. Thirdly you must serve it in in the white-rayment justification wherein no shame of nakednesse do appeare for Christ cannot endure sin Fourthly you must buy eye-salve of the Holy Ghost to anoint your eyes that you may see Rev. 3. 18. For Christ will not sup with blind sinners Fifthly the marriage-chamber must be paved with the love of the daughters of Ierusalem Cant. 3. 10. i. with love to all the citizens of the new Ierusalem and now invite him saying Arise thou North-wind and come thou South and blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out let my well beloved come into his garden and eat of his pleasant fruits Cant. 4. Now Christ hath prepared a supper for you for thus he saith I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrbe with my spice I have eaten mine honey comb with mine honey I have drunk my wine with my milke eat O friends drink and make you