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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

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

Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal 1 Sam. 15. 33. so are all men that will not receive Christ by baptisme hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath Joh. 3. 36. as Jews Turks and Heathens Sometimes it is taken for hewing by degrees as Exod. 31. 4. Hew thee two tables of stone Metaphorically it is taken for the preaching of the Law by the Prophets So Hos. 6. 5. Therefore I have hewn them by my Prophets and slain them with the words of my mouth by punishments and plagues and curses of the Law for their sins Therefore the Law and the Prophets indured untill John i. hewing them and slaying them as in Hosea for their sins and since that time the kingdome of Heaven is preached and every man presseth unto it How is the Kingdome of Heaven to be preached By faith and baptisme for remission of sins is preached by baptisme and the righteousnesse of Christ without which no kingdome of Heaven but by baptisme we come into the large heaven of remission of sins as Luther calls it in which we have remission of all sins past present and to come for the doctrine and work of Baptisme it came down from heaven as Christ posed the Pharisees The baptisme of John was it from heaven or of men intimating it was from Heaven But why did he call it the baptisme of John not the doctrine or ministery of John Answ To shew that his baptisme was the most heavenly thing For there was a man sent from God whose name was John Job 1. 6. And what was he sent to do Answ. To baptize He that sent me to baptize with water said unto me Vpon whom thou seest the Spirit of God come down and tarrying still upon him that is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost By all which you see that where baptisme is truly preached and administred there the Kingdome of Heaven is preached and is at hand and in it the Kingdome of Heaven is set open to all the elect and according to the established doctrine of the Church of England which all that have taken the Protestation are sworn to maintain that in my baptisme I was made a member of Christ a childe of God and an inheritor of the Kingdome of Heaven which is a heavenly point of doctrine that agrees with the reformed Churches and Scriptures for if any be made an inheritor of that Kingdome it must be by baptisme For Verily verily I sâ—y unto thee saith Christ Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot see the Kingdome of God Joh. 3. 5. For that which is born of the flesh is flesh and unclean and unfit for the Kingdome of heaven untill it be new born What is meant by good fruit All the fruit that man brings forth before God is sin or righteousnesse every evill man brings forth evill fruit of sin and every good man bringeth forth good fruits of righteousnesse A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit namely before God Matth. 7. 17. So that every man Church or Nation that will not now receive baptisme or believe by baptisme into Christ he is made a good tree and brings forth nothing but good fruit before God through remission of sins and Christs righteousnesse he is hewn down and cast into the fire What is meant by fire By fire in this place is not meant hell fire though they shall go afterward into hell fire that do not escape but they are cast into the fire of Gods wrath signifying that every man that bringeth forth evill fruit of sin before God that believes not by baptisme his sins are all forgiven and that in Christ he bringeth forth fruit of righteousnesse before God he is hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath as is plain Joh. 3. 36. He that believeth in the Son which none can do before he be baptized into him bath everlasting life he that obeyeth not the Son i. to let him wash him Joh. 13. 8. shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him For fire is kindled in my wrath and it shall burn to the bottome of hell and set on fire the foundation of the mountains Deut. 32 22. Now in that he saith Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit we gather that all men now baptisme is offered are good trees or bad there are none indifferent or partly good and partly bad This is proved Matth. 12. 33. Either make the tree good and his fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill Augustine saith he commanded the Jews that they should be good trees and to bring forth good fruit and in that he saith make the tree evill he admonisheth them that they should not be evill for the Pharisees declared themselves to be evill trees by their evill fruit Others take it that Christ spake of himself as of a tree Thus the tree is known by the fruit and the fruit is like the tree The casting out devills is a good fruit as you grant in your children therefore if you in your words and judgements make the fruit good then also make the tree good for an evill tree cannot bring forth good fruit Mat. 7. 18. Say of him that cast out devils he is a good tree not the prince of devils but if you make the tree evill and say I am an evill man and have the devill Beelzebub do not attribute the casting out of devils which is good fruit to an evill tree for an evill tree as Beelzebub is cannot bring forth good fruit nor an evill man by Adam cannot bring forth good fruit before God This you may see Matth. 7. 17. So every good tree that is made good by baptisme into Christ bringeth forth good fruit before God and a corrupt tree by Adam as all are by generation bringeth forth evill fruit i. before God Calvin noteth that this was the opinion of the Pharisees that they were partly good trees and partly bad and that they brought forth some good fruit before God and some bad for which they did sacrifice as some say now they are partly flesh and partly spirit and therefore do bring forth some fruits good and some bad and this was the opinion of the old Pharisees for their fained sanctimony was such that the people perceived them not Now Christ puts away this vizird and uncaseth all Hypocrites and tels them that all men are good or bad before God a good tree bringeth nothing but good fruit before God and a bad tree nothing but bad as Matth. 7. 18. for there is nothing such an enemy to true Christianity as to counterfeit a man in a twofold estate before God but they do in vain think themselves righteous that are not made good trees by baptisme into Christ for such justifie themselves before men and think to make themselves righteous in whole or

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 saying they must be hewn down before they can be converted or builded up which Satan as he did Paul hindred which caused me the rather to write it out and send it to the Presse because the Enemy hate it lest it should convert more and endamage his kingdome which I have sent foth as John a fore-runner to make way for a more excellent Work of the counsell of Christ to England 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 Matthew 12. 33. Either make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill Rev. 3. 5. 12. A white-rayment Christian and a citizen of the new Jerusalem Published according to Order LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons and are to be sold by John Hancock at his Shop in Popes-head Alley 1646. To all the friends of the Bridegroom the White-rayment Christians and citizens of the New Jerusalem DEare and faithfull Brethren Mr. Brightman fore-prophesied of a Church to arise that should be the Woman clothed with the Sun which should glitter on every side round about with the most cleer light of the Scripture of the Sun of righteousnesse in the doctrine of justification as you may see on Rev. 19. 17. and chap. 12. 1. with the cleer knowledge whereof she being adorned as it were with a goodly garment came forth abroad and laid her self open to the view of the world And Rest saith hee shall be the naturall daughter of the woman clothed with the Sun meaning a spirituall rest which are the most entire and chaste Congregation of all the rest yet no Sect which above others shine with this glorious aray And it seemeth saith he that all the chief stresse and violence of the last battell in the West shall be turned against that holy Congregation which we said right now to stand glittering in the Sun which are the hill of precious fruits and the mountain full of holy pleasures of which God maketh more account then of all delight some things in the world Now you white rayment Christians are this woman clothed with the Sun for you all believe that you are clothed with the Sun of Righteousnesse and stand in him before God Here is an Ax for you for the blessing of Joshua belongs to you which he spake to the children of Joseph Thou art a great people and hast great power therefore the mountain stall be thine for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it down and the ends of it shall be thine and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites though they have iron Chariots and though they be strong Jâ—sh 17. So here are mountains of sins errors and false religions in England and Ireland it is a wood of Sects Schismes and Heresies but thou hast cut them down for thou art a great people and hast great power with the Lord in prayer and England shall be thine and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites of sin Idolatry and false Religions though they have Ordnance of iron and though they be strong lay this Ax of the Law to the root of them and shew them that now also every tree i. Religion Church Sect or man that bringeth forth sin before God Isai. 1. 16. is hewn down and cast into the fire of God wrath for the wrath of God is now revealed from heaven against all unrighteousnesse of men which withhold truth in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18 for the hour of temptation is come to try them that are upon the face of the earth Rev. 2. 10. in which friends shall fight with friends as with enemies and the earth shalll fear with them 2 Esdr. 6. 22. when there shall be seen an earth-quake in the world and an upâ—ore of the people that is the time wherein the most High will begin to visit the world which he made 2 Esdra 9. 4. 3 hard it is for men to keep faith and a good conscience now yea the strongest faith shall finde it difficult Would not you be glad to be delivered from this hour of temptation and were it not labour worth the pains to shew that you shall be delivered And though all evill trees shall be cut down with the aâ— of the Law yet that you are good trees of righteousnesse of his own planting that God may be gloriâ—ied and shall be saved Isai. 61. â— Come forth come forth thou Kings daughter all glorious within all light in the Lord the Sun of Righteousnesse shew thy self to the world thy garments are of broydered gold Psal. 45. 13. that is of the merits of Christ crucified death and resurrection given you freely in your Baptisme into Christs death for remission of sins Rom. 6. 3 4 Acts 2. 38. and are made glorious in the Sun of Righteousnesse that is risen upon you Mal. 2. 4. shew your selves to the world for the stressâ— of the baâ—â—ell in the West you heare shall be against you but you shall overcome by faith 1 John 5 4. when the ax shall cut down the wicked yet fear not you are got into the Sun and therefore are out of gun-shot for your souls yet put on the whole armour of God Eph. 6. 14. and gird up the loynes of your mindes with the girdle of verity and put on the brest-plate of Christs righteousnesse and above all take the shield of faith in your Baptisme and in the blood of the Lamb wherewith you may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmâ—t of salvation in Christ that you are in him that is true 1 John 5. 20. and the sword of the Spirit the Word of God and your feet thod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace that testiâ—ies of Jesus that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood 't is the Spirit that beareth witnesse and that Spirit is truth and shall conquer Therefore stand fast and pray with all manner of praâ—er and supplications in the Spirit that testifieth of the water and blood of Christ for remission of your sins and you shall overcome For you have a strong city of the new Jerusalem salvation shall God set for waâ—ls and bulwarks Isai. 26. 1. open ye the gates of it Rev. 22. 14. that you the righteous nation that keep the truth maâ— enter in for by an assured purpose will Christ preserve perfect peace for you because

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 â—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 â—ine linen white and pure Rev. 19. 13 14. There be many religions now in England and maay mâ—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 Râ—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. â—â— 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

forgetting of a mans Baptisme into Christ is the cause of all the divisions sects wars and mischieves that are in the world and of the damnation of so many thousands for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that will not believe his baptisme into Christ shall be damned for he cannot believe he is in Christ or hath remission of sins or an everlasting righteousnesse for he that will not believe he is baptized into Christ and hath put on Christ shall be damned if he never will be baptized What Do you hold that Baptisme do conferre grace ex opere operato I answer no for then all the reprobate that are baptized should receive grace at it but Judas and Simon Magus did not But I believe that all the elect do ordinarily receive grace at baptisme as many Scriptures Fathers and Churches declare Acts 2. 38. Joh. 3. 5. Gal. 3. 27. Tit. 3. 5. And Cyprian Gregory Nazianzen Athanasius Chrysostom Basil Jerome Ambrose Augustine Luther Calvin Beza Bucer Zanche Mourton Marlorat Hooker the confession of Helvetia of Scotland Belgick France Argentine Augustan Saxon Wittenberg Palatine and our Church of England in all which ten Churches the grosse and damnable heresie of the Anabaptists is condemned and of all such as hold that grace is not given to the elect Infants at baptisme And here is the reason when the Jews are called they shall never scatter more into sundrie opinions and sects and fight one with another because they shall be so soundly grounded on the faith of their baptisme into Christ that they are in him that is true and so are members and children of God that they shall love one another so in Christ as they shall never fight one with another more and then shall the seventh Vial be powred out on the air which is the kingdome of the Devill for he shall never have any power to set them together by the ears as he doth now Heathens against Heathens Turks against Christians Papists against Protestants and Protestants one with another for herein consists the subtilty of the Devill and the Pope to set Christians together by the ears that he may get both for he gets more by their killing one another then by any other way but after that the seventh Vial be powred out on the kingdome of the Devill by the preaching of Baptisme and Faith that we are in him that is true the Devill shall never have any power to set them at variance any more for all the true Church shall by the faith of their baptisme into Christ believe they are members and love as brethren and then the Prophesie of Micah Mic. 4. 2 3. for the Law Thorah signifies in generall doctrine and so may be taken for Baptisme as Johns Baptisme was from heaven shall go forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem i. that men are clean by the word that Christ hath spoken in Baptisme And he shall judge among many people and rebuke mighty nations a far off of sin of righteousnesse and of judgement John 16. because they believe not in Christ that believe not their baptisme he shall bring them to it and then they shall break their swords into mattocks and their spears into sithes nation shall not lift up a sword against nation neither shall they learn to fight any more but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it i. between Jews and Gentiles which shall be truly graffed into Christ by Baptisme there shall be no dissention as there is now under the corrupt state of the Church for under that pure state of the Church they shall strive to shew all offices of love as they do now practices of hatred which is not so to be understood as if it were not lawfull now for Protestants to take up arms as the Anabaptists have held absurdly for so long as Antichrist fight against Christ they must defend themselves against him for the Church is terrible as an armie with banners she must fight But in the elect justified Church by baptisme into Christ and faith in the same among the right Olive branch Christians shall show such love peace and concord that they shall fight no more there is such love already to be seen among the white-raiment Christians that they had rather die then fight one against another And this is for the comfort of you the citizens of the new Jerusalem that are no Anabaptists nor Antinomians though the world may falsly call you by some grosse name for you hold the Law is to be preached in the killingest manner that can be and believe your baptisme in infancy and are sound in the faith of your baptisme you are the people that God will deliver in this bloody civill war For thus saith the Lord Jesus Because thou hast kept the word of my patience therefore I will deliver thee from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon earth Now the word of Christs patience is the true faith in our baptisme wherein we are baptized into Christ his death Rom. 6. 3. and buried with him and crucified with him and raised with him for the word of Christs patience is the faith of Christ crucified as Meyer dead and buried and risen again which are all included in the faith of our baptisme that we are in him crucified dead and buried to sin before God in him and risen again in him by baptisme which belongs not only to the Church of Philadelphia but to all other Churches that hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches I will deliver thee from the hour of temptation i. from the last persecution of Antichrist which is now come upon all the Christian world in these our dayes which is like to last till the Pope be destroyed Are we made good trees by putting on of Christ as a garment for if a man had such a garment as would make all his thoughts words and actions good it would make him a good tree Now Christ is such a garment of righteousness that is put on at baptism and by faith that it makes the tree good and the fruit good Behold Christ is come as a thief and the last persecution of Antichrist is begun blessed is he that keepeth his garments unto him i. which were put on at baptisme Gal. 2. 27. lest he walk naked and there see his filthinesse what an evill tree he is by Adam to bring forth sin before God in thoughts words and actions which should have been all covered if he had kept his garments that he put on at baptisme they are all cursed trees that keep not Christs garments Again are men made good trees by baptisme and faith because they are made to drink into one Spirit Then the way to bring all men to be of one Religion and to cease

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