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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

peny-worth of bread or drink thou art guilty of his death for he that taketh away a mans living killeth him Thou that hast oppressed or defrauded thy brother in any thing God is the avenger of all such things thou hast slain thy brother wo unto thee thou manslayer as Luther saith to the objection of the Usurer that said he lent his money to usury not to the poor but only to the rich I thank you Master man-slayer you will kill no poor men but only those that are rich but you will make them poor by usury and so kill them if a peny be so much what shall become of you that have defrauded cozened spoyled and plundred your brethren of many shillings and pounds wo unto you let this scourge of small cords or sins driye out all these sins out of thy conscience by contrition confession mortification vivification prayer against sin love of righteousnesse that Christ may dwell in the Temple that was made good by Baptisme but you have made it a den of thieves by your sins and it will remain an house of Prayer for which it was built of God for the Temple of God is holy which are ye And for you that will not believe it is so because you cannot see it it shewes you are not dead unto reason you have not slain the beast reason you are nor resolved to believe whatsoever God sayes though it be never so contrary to reason you will believe no more then you can mould up with sight and reason you are but Dunses in Christs School Do not you know that the Kingdome of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep and rise up night and day and the seed should spring and grow up he not knowing how for the earth bringeth forth fruit of it self first the blade then the eare and after the full corn in the eare and as soon as the fruit sheweth it self anon he putteth in his sickle because the harvest is come What will you say there was no seed sown because you see none for many dayes The Kingdome of heaven is sown in Baptisme wherein the seed is sown into the ground and men sleep and rise up night and day and walk in their calling the seed grow and spring downward first with a feare of hell and grow to some knowledge of a way of salvation he not knowing how yet by thundring and lightening hail the law and rain of the Gospel the ground of mans heart bringeth forth fruit of it self by the Sun of righteousnesse first the blade of godly sorrow then the eare of faith after the full corne in the eare fruits of righteousnesse and holinesse and anon he putteth in the sickle and reaps men unto Heaven because the harvest of such a man is come Are we graffed into Christ by Baptisme and made good trees because we are made partakers of the fatnesse of the stock See that ye abide in Christ for though ye be wilde Olive branches by Adam yet such is the nature of the sweet Olive Christ as Psal. 52. Christ is this true Olive tree that is both fat and sweet and we are graffed into him by Baptisme to bring forth fruit in the stock Christ know that it is the nature of a fat and sweet Olive stock to change the nature of a wild Olive branch and contrary to our manner of graffing to make it bring forth sweet Olives So Christ the sweet Olive will change the nature of thy person and actions before God and make them all good that abide in him by this faith in thy Baptisme Is it so Christ is a Vine and are we the branches and how were you made branches but by Baptisme look you bring not forth evill fruit before God for he that bringeth not forth fruit in Christ but evill fruit of sin God taketh it away cuts it off it withers in faith and men gather them together and they burn such are hewn down and cast into the fire Are we members of his body flesh and bones For he can say as Adam did to Evab and so may we say Ephes. 5. 30. Then are any of Christs members in a twofold estate before God partly Adam and partly Christ what do any of Christs members hands feet legs arms fingers toes bring forth good fruit and bad too before God no all Christs members are good trees and a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit before God here is comfort for thee if thou abide in this faith no man shall take thy joy from thee many lose their joy by believing they are in a twofold estate before God Again are you members of Christ by Baptisme where is your love to the members of Christ that are baptized into Christ as well as you Here is the reason of all the sects and divisions and wars in Christendome and no more love because they have forgotten their Baptisme as 2 Pet. 1. 9. they have forgotten they are members of Christ and children of God and inheritors of the Kingdome of heaven they say not why do we wrong one to another for we are brethren they have forgotten they were washed from their sins saith Peter and therefore if they have not put off the old man must needs live in old hatred malice envie and lying wherefore labour to bring all men to the faith of their Baptisme that in it they were made members of Christ for this faith would teach them to say Should one hand fight with another though the children of the Devill fight and could never agree should not the members of Christ love one another O quam iniquum est ut ii dissideant in terris qui in omnem aeternitatem una victuri sunt in coelis O! how unfit is it for those to disagree fight and hate one another on earth which shall live together for ever in heaven So that he that forgets his baptisme i. his washing from his old sins i. from originall and actuall sins that man cannot make his calling and election sure that hath forgot his Baptisme for he hath forgot the true faith i. that he is in him that is true and he hath forgot to adde to faith vertue i. of Christs death and resurrection and he hath forgot to adde to vertue knowledge i. of salvation by the remission of sins which was in baptisme and he hath forgot to adde to knowledge temperance for want of the knowledge of salvation by remission of sin cause men to fall to intemperance and he hath forgot to adde to temperance patience and thus they wrangle and fight with his comembers and he hath forgot to adde brotherly kindnesse he believes not his own sins are forgiven he forgives not his brother and he addes not love for he hath forgot Christ hath loved him and washed him from his sins in his own blood he covers not a multitude of offences in his brother so that you see the

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