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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

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

seditions that nation rise against nation and kingdome against kingdome Ergo there shall be great earth-quakes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. in according to or through those places and famine and pestilence these are the beginnings of sorrows of which I have writ more fully in the Counsell of Christ to England Now as Moses when a pestilence was comming counselled the Israelites a way to escape the destroying Angel by sprinking the blood of a Lamb upon the two dore-posts and the upper dore-post of their houses that when God saw the blood he said he would passe over them and the plague shall not be upon you to destruction so ● counsell you the Israel of God buy one of them books for every house and sprinkle the faith of the blood of the Lamb upon your two dore-posts of your bodies and soules and the upper dore-post of your spirits that when the destroying pestilence shall come God may see the blood of the Lamb upon your consciences he may cause it to passe over your houses where the Israelite of a good conscience is within and whatsoever comes to your bodies yet your souls shall be safe for as the Angels of heaven went up and down on Jacobs ladder so they shall ascend and descend for your protection that believe your bodies were washed with pure water in Baptisme and your hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience by the blood of the Lamb you may keep your profession without wavering of deliverance Heb. 10. 22 23. For he that dwelleth in this secret of the Lord shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Psal. 91. 1. and he shall give his Angels a charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes to beare thee in their arms that thou dash not thy foot against a stone v. 11. and peace shall be upon them that walk according to this rule of a new creature and upon the Israel of God Gal 6. 16. Thine in the Lord Jesus JOHN EACHARD JUDGEMENT Denounced against Unfruitfulnesse in grace MATTHEVV 3. 10. And now also is the ax put to the root of the tree therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewne down and cast into the fire IOHN the Baptist the forerunner of Christ was prophesied of by two famous Prophets Isaiah and Malachi For this is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah saying The voyce of him that cryeth in the Wildernesse Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths streight And Malachi calleth him the Prophet Eliah that should turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and of the children to their fathers He exhorteth them to prepare a way in their hearts for Christ that they may receive him for so many as receive him he gives them prerogative to become the sons of God That as Princes and great Kings have forerunners that prepare their wayes and foretell of a kings coming to prepare him lodging so did John prepare the way for the Lord by shewing their lost miserable and cursed condition by sin The Vallies are exalted when men escape out of the mire of sin and go to Christ the Mountains and Hils are brought low when men cast away all pride of their own righteousnesse and trust in their merits and imbrace Christs and then crooked things are made streight when men cast away hypocrisie and simulation and receive the Gospel sincerely And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children i. as Elias did when there was such a dissention in Religion that some fathers were for Baal and the children for God so on the contrary But Elias brought them all to acknowledge the true God So John the Baptist seeing the dissention of so many sects the fathers Sadduces and the children Pharisees or Esses he by a divine zeal thundring out the Law did convince them all of sin that they were great and damnable sinners and needed to be baptized and confessed their sins and were baptized in Jordan and was a true pointer for he pointed out Jesus Christ to be the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world that men should receive him and this he was fore-prophesied he should do lest the Lord should smite the earth with cursing i. to bring a destruction upon the whole land for their dissention for when one part of a Common-wealth opposeth another Ipsa Salus non potest talem Rempublicam conservare Salvation it self cannot preserve such a kingdome for a kingdome divided cannot stand God hath smitten our land with this cursing that the hearts of the fathers were not towards the children nor the hearts of the children towards their fathers in the true Religion Fathers are for an Episcopacie and children for another way fathers for one sect and children for another none of both for Christ O that the Lord would raise up some prophet or John the Baptist that might thunder out the Law and Judgments of God against all the sects and divisions both of Cavilleers and all others to shew them they are all cursed and damnable sinners the best of all but luke-warm Gospellers and therefore wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked that they may seek the remedie in Christ for their sins and buy of him gold tried in the fire that they may be rich which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death received in baptisme which makes men rich members of Christ children of God and inheritors of the kingdome of Heaven which would make them leave fighting if they did believe it and white rayment that their filthy nakednesse might not appear they would then leave stripping one another of their garments and eye-salve that they might see how the Papists set them together by the eares and laugh at them when they kill one another they would then leave fightinng one with another and both sides fight only against them for murthering of their brethren in Ireland Now Christs testimony of John was this that he was that Elias that was to come and is come already and they knew him not but have done to him whatsoever they would Mat. 17. 12. i. many of the Jews knew not the Majesty and office of John the Baptist but said he had a devill Herod added this to his sins that he cast John into prison and beheaded him his birth was foretold by an Angel which appeared at the right hand of the Altar of incense saying Fear not Zacharias for thy prayer is beard signifying that he had prayed for a son for thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John which signifies the grace of God signifying he should be a Preacher of the free grace of God to wretched sinners pointing with the finger at the Lamb of God for whose sake we are received into free grace and favour of God And thou shalt have joy and gladnesse and

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

his houshold after Baptisme rejoyced And I can testifie that my God shall fill you full of joy and peace in believing i. that you are in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ the same is very God and eternall life and this I know by faith in my baptisme into that Jesus that came by water and blood not by water of Baptisme only but by water and blood 't is that Spirit that beareth witnesse i. unto our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8. 16. that Spirit is true and those Christians that hold the true faith in their baptisme that by it and by the blood we know we are in him that is true and by the Spirit that beareth witnesse by both these they are the right joyfull Christians in all the world the Devill and the world are mad at them for their joy and are the citizens of the new Jerusalem the street of it paved with pure gold like transparent glasse signifie the lively faith of our Baptisme And this John had his garment of Camels hair he was no velvet or silken Preacher with long Camels hair on his head no his garment was hairy like Elias free from softnesse or pride and a lethern girdle about his loynes not broydered with silver or gold but like Elias in his lether girdle 2 King 1. and his meat was Locusts and wilde Honey to shew Humble-Bees honey and Locusts could content him as the Pulse did Daniel and the three children Daniel he did not desire delicate fare but he was in his apparel and diet far from pride or luxury There went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan and they were baptized of him in Jordan confessing their sins They went out into the Wildernesse to see a Prophet he was not a Reed shaken with the wind to run after every wind of doctrine but he taught that doctrine and baptisme that he was sent to teach from God for so he testified he that sent me to baptize with water said unto me Joh. 1. 33. But when they came to see him he so preached the Law and the wrath of God to come upon them for sin they confessed their sins i. they humbly confessed they were sinners before God by the Law and had deserved eternall damnation and prayed to God to forgive them their sins and took the Sacrament of Baptisme unto repentance for the remission of sins and bad them believe in Christ that should baptize them with the Holy Ghost which Johns baptisme could not do as the twelve men Acts 19. For by our baptisme now we are made clean from all our sins before God and regenerate that of the children of Adam we might be made the sons of God and as Ananias said to Paul Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins in calling on the name of the Lord Acts 22. And Paul testifieth that Christ doth cleanse his Church in the laver of water through the Word Eph. 5. and Christ saith Except ye be regenerate of water and the Holy Ghost ye cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 3. And Paul saith that Baptisme is the laver of regeneration Tit. 3. that we might have this ground of consolation in all afflictions that we are baptized and so regenerate and are adopted to be the sons of God And seeing Baptisme is a means saith the Expositor whereby we obtain remission of sins and the benefit of regeneration let us beware of that doctrine of Devils that through malice or foolishnesse we deprive not our children to come unto Christ to obtain remission of sins and the benefit of regeneration in infancy For if Christ say Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdome of heaven then they must be baptized for they can come no other way to Christ but by Baptisme nor any other way be of the kingdome of Heaven as Joh. 3. 5. but by that of themselves or of their parents if they die in the womb for Baptisme is as the Ark for a man and his houshold 1 Pet. 3. 21. When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces come to his baptisme he said unto them O generation of Vipers who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come What you Pharisees that think your selves good and contemne others you that trust to your own righteousnesse you that say stand apart I am holier then thou you that think your selves better then other folks the Law doth declare you are a cursed generation for you are a poysonable generation and desirous of hurting you are the generation of Vipers for your fathers slew the Prophets and you are of the same viperous mind to kill them that discover your hypocrisie for all your plots are against them that discover you And you Sadduces What are you come to my baptisme What need you be baptized as if he should say you believe no resurrection nor Angel nor Spirit you are all cursed by the Law for you have not continued in all things you shall go cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels you shall finde a Devill in Hell that will not believe there are Angels in Heaven Well both of you are come to my baptisme look you be both of one faith to believe in the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the Pharisees and the sins of the Sadduces and of the whole world and thus he reconciled these Sects to be all one in their baptisme So the only way to reconcile all the Sects in the world is to shew them their abominable estate by Adam the generation of Vipers and how cursed they are by the Law and the wrath of God hangs over them and bring them all to faith in baptisme to obtain remission of all sins past present and to come and how they put on Christ in baptisme to make them everlastingly righteous For here is the cause of all the sects and divisions in Christendome for when men have lost baptisme then one sect will devise to get remission of sins one way as by a Popes pardon by pilgrimage or in Purgatory The Anabaptists by a new baptisme and by a new Church-way not appointed by Christ but invented of themselves to make them more righteous and holy and clean then others that are not of their way and therfore will not communicate with others for they think they are more holy then others by strictnesse of their order and thus all sects imagine that in that way they walk in they are lesse sinners then others and more righteous then others and therefore will not communicate with others and you will be a Church by your selves But I say unto you O generation of Vipers all you sects in Christendom come home to the faith in your baptism into Christ there is wrath coming upon all

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.