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A84341	Good nevves for all Christian souldiers. Or The way to overcome the devill by the bloud of the lambe. As it was delivered in a sermon / by John Eachard, pastour of Darsham in Suffolke. Published according to order.	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1645 (1645)	Wing E48; Thomason E271_6; ESTC R212214	40,704	48

when it is more needfull to strive for a wedding garment for to him that overcometh and keepeth his garments Rev. 16. 15. will I give saith Christ to sit with me in my Throne Rev. 3. 21. signifying that shall be the conquering and raigning people whom Christ hath loved and washed from their sins in his own blood and made Kings and Priests to God his Father and they shall raign upon earth Rev. 1. 5. and 5. 10. Let England consider Christs words Rev. 3. 18. I counsell thee to buy of mee gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be made rich which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death in baptisme which make men rich that were poor by Adam and white raiment that thou mayest be cloathed that the filthinesse of the wickeness of sin may not appeare which is the white wedding garment of justification which makes a Christian know hee is ready for Christ when he hath it and eye-salve of the spirit of Christ that we may see how to walk by the Spirit and in discipline of the Word for untill this counsell of Christ be taken in England both of the Angels and Church this war will not cease for untill a mans wayes or Churches wayes please the Lord he will not make all his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. 16. 7. And when shall that be in England think you when they will be guided by his counsell i. Rev. 3. 18. he will then receive them to glory Psal. 73. Now many men dote so much about Discipline that they think to make a rare Church by it but are greatly deceived For if a man should take a company of Vipers to make them Nightingals do you think he can make them such by Discipline all the orders and skil let him order them how he can will not make them become Nightingals but if he can make them new creatures they may be made Nightingalls as well as any other creature There were two Pharisees which were the generation of Vipers Matth. 3. which were made sweet Nightingals by baptisme wherein they were made new creatures and sang sweetly in the night as Nicodemus that having learn'd the doctrine of regeneration of water and the Spirit in baptisme he was so changed that in the night when the other Pharisees as Vipers would have condemned Christ sang for him thus Doth our law condemn any man before it heare him and hee sweetly buried him with sweet odors And another notorious Viper that was a murtherer and a blasphemer Saul was so changed by baptisme when he did arise and was baptized he washed away his sins in calling on the name of the Lord that of a murtherer and blasphemer he became a sweet Preacher of the Gospel by night and till the dawning of the day and sang Psalmes in the night so sweetly that the Lord heard him and sent an earthquake Acts 16. Wherefore if you would make a good Church it must be by faith in our baptisme into Christ when wee were little children and by the white raiment of Christs righteousnesse applyed by faith Discipline may order a childe in good manners but he must have a soul and body first Now Baptisme and the white raiment is as the soul and body of all Christianity he that wants faith in this cannot tell whether hee be in Christ or no Discipline may order a Church but cannot make one Truly I never look to see a pure Discipline untill the Jewes be called which I wish all the faithfull to pray for except the woman clothed with the Sun begin to make one which hath the bright morning Star which are that chast and holy Congregation as Mr. Brightman calls them which are the place of Gods pleasures and the hill of his delights wherein God taketh more delight then in any thing of the world as Rev. 19. 17. which Church is now arising out of the corruption of the Church of Laodicea Corruptio unius est generatio alterius for though he will spue the luke-warm out yet there is a few names in Laodicea that shall sit with Christ in his Throne wherefore if you be brethren and going to the new Jerusalem remember Josephs words to his brethren Fall not out by the way for a Discipline who shall have the preeminence Let not him that putteth on the armour boast as he that putteth it off for as victory is of the Lord so is government If you look for government before wee have peace the gift of God you reckon without your hoast wherefore I command you from the Lord study to be quiet and do your own busines and work out your salvation with fear and trembling and perswade Euodius of the Presbyters and beseech Syntiche of the Independents to be of one accord in the Lord and labour all to overcome the Devill by the bloud of the Lamb as this Sermon shews you who would set you together by the ears to kill one another that he might get both I have writ of the miseries of England and of the remedies of the same and have shewen at least forty causes how the Bishops have brought the sword upon the land and therefore are justly put down of the Lord and his Parliament which I purpose to set in print if Satan hinder it not Let it not be said that the Presbyters and Independents have set dissention in the Parliament and City and in the Armies and brought the sword into their own bowells to make the Papists sport wherefore let no man speak any more of any government in the Church of England except by Parliament untill the wars cease those that shall remain shall pray unto the Lord to shew them such a Discipline out of Gods Word as shall be pleasing unto him Men may imagine that there may be a smiling shew of peace but they shall finde that Male sarta gratia nequicquam coit there is so much blood in the morter that it will not daub love will not grow within there is so much blood without and yet for my part I desire if the Lord will and pray for the peace of Jerusalem that peace may be within our walls and plenteousnesse within our palaces for no peace no plenty for where wars and sedition remain wee must look for earthquakes famine and pestilence Luke 21. 9 10 11. you shall have little pleasure in a Presbyterie or Independencie before these warres cease for there is a flood of Gods judgements coming now on all the world there shall none escape but those that get into the Ark of the faith of their baptisme into Christ 1 Pet. 3. 21. and such as take Christs counsell Rev. 3. 18. which are the blessed people that keep Christs garments unto them that their filthy nakednesse may not be seen Rev. 16. 15. and such as keep the word of his patience Rev. 3. 10. these shall be delivered from this hour of tentation Question 2 Now there is another Question also among many

spareth Gods enemies when God hath delivered them into your hands as Ahab did Benhadad to be slaine thy life shall goe for his life thy people for his people By sparing Benhadad he was cruell to the Israelites for he was the cause of the death of all those Israelites that Benhadad slew afterward whom if he had slaine he had shewed mercy to Israel So concerning the Rebels of Ireland that have cut the throats of your brethren in Ireland and are come over to doe the like here seeing the sword is put into your hands by the Parliament send an Herauld or Trumpetter before every battell unto your enemie or send men through all the Armie or Shire saying What wickednesse is this that is committed of the Rebels Jesuites and Papists of Ireland Now therefore deliver us those wicked men which are in your Armie or Citie that wee may put them to death for their villanie and put away evill from England Judg. 20. 12. 13. If they refuse to deliver them they shall maintaine murtherers and you shall overcome them by the bloud of the Lambe Proclaime free quarter for all true Protestants which are forced to fight against you shew your selves unto them saying Sirs wee are brethren why doe wee wrong one another Act. 7. 26 Send messengers unto them saying What have wee to doe to fight with thee thou King of Judah wee come not against thee this day but against the house of our enemie and God hath commanded us to make haste leave off to come against God which is with us lest he destroy you see 2 Chron. 35. 21. And when God gives them into your hands say unto Zebah and Salmana What manner of men were they whom yee slew at Tabor in Ireland or England As thou art a Protestant so were they every one was like the children of a King say They were my brethren even my mother Churches children As the Lord liveth if yee had saved their lives I would not slay you Judg. 7. 18 19. signifying if you had shewed mercy you should have found mercy but you have been mercilesse enemies to my brethren therefore I will slay you as your sword hath made women childlesse so shall your mother be childlesse among other women with Samuel I will hew you in pieces before the Lord 1 Sam. 15. 33. for though you come pleasantly and say truly the bitternesse of death is passed by a pacification yet you shall not escape the sword for he that sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed Gen. 9. 6. Therefore shew mercy unto your brethren by slaying of those that have and will slay more of your brethren for if any lead into captivitie he shall go into captivitie if any kill with the sword be must be killed by a sword true is the patience and faith of the Saints Rev. 13. 10. that is to kill them with the sword that have killed their brethren with the sword as Gideon did Vse 6 Is it so that by the testimony of the bloud of the Lamb you give glory to the justice of God by testifying Gods justice is satisfied by the bloud of the Lamb justice and mercy are met together in the bloud of Christ his justice hath full satisfaction and his mercy is shewed to us in throwing upon him the iniquities of us all and Righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other i. Christs righteousnesse is ours and therefore wee have peace with God Rom. 5. 1. Now can you give God the glory of his justice and then practise no justice to your brethren but plunder and rob and spoyle and steale be it farre from you can you be children of the just God of heaven and earth and practise such unjustice to your brethren for how can you say there is satisfaction made to Gods justice for thy trespasses by the bloud of the Lamb but that must move thee to give satisfaction for the trespasses you have done to your brethren And secondly doth his justice require that that should be remitted for which satisfaction is made by the bloud of the Lamb so doth justice require that they should be plundered which have made satisfaction by their weekly pay should not a faithfull Souldier be content with his wages Yes saith the Souldier if he could get it Ans. Will you wrong yor brethren and plunder and spoyle them because some deceive you of your wages enquire who have received it and that true satisfaction may be made be not unjust to others because others are unjust to you for the unjust shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven 1 Cor. 6. 9. Lose not your souls for a little pay And thirdly doth Justice require that that should be injoyed that is purchased by the bloud of the Lambe as remission of sinnes and an inheritance in heaven let the power of this grace move all Souldiers to suffer the fatherless and the widow injoy that which is purchased for them and not to destroy your brethren and their inheritance The sheep and the oxen made an ill sound in Samuels eares though they were brought for a good intent to do sacrifice but they made a worse sound in Gods eares which made Saul lose his kingdome for disobedience What an ill sound doe all the sheep and oxen make in the eares of God from all armies that are taken with an ill intent to doe mischiefe to the poore and needy the tears of the oppressed cry in the eares of the Lord of hosts Wo unto him that increaseth that which is not his and wo unto him that covereth an evill covetousnesse Hab. 2. 6. 9. Woe unto you that spoyle and thou ●●st not spoyled for when thou shalt cease to spoyle thou shalt be spoyled I● you magnifie the justice of the great God of heaven and earth practise justice to your brethren or he will practise justice toward you Remember the counsell of the Lord often in Deut. 23. 9. When thou goest out with the Host against thine enemies keep thee then from all wickednesse for thou art in danger to be slaine every houre and a good conscience by the bloud of the Lamb is a continuall feast it is murus aheneus nil conscire sibi null apallescere culpa i. 't is a brazen wall to have a good conscience the Devill cannot shoot through that and the destroyers that are sent by fire out of the mouths of guns shall passe over the houses where such an Israelite is within namely a good conscience sprinkled with the bloud of the Lambe Cause the Law and the Gospel to be preached powerfully in your armies There be some Anabaptists that would not have the law preached I met with an Anabaptist lately that heard me preach the Law and the Gospel and he told me to my face after the Sermon that he had been oftentimes scared by the Law he would have heard none of the Law but onely the Gospel and to speak so much of Baptisme was an offence to him Herein are two Doctrines of Devils 1. To forbid the Law to be preached 2. To forbid children to be married to Christ Now the Spirit speaketh evidently that in the later times which are now some shall depart from the faith i. of their Baptisme and counteth the bloud of the Covenant as an unholy thing wherewith he was sanctified in Baptisme and doth despight to the Spirit of Grace i. in despight of the Spirit that saith he that is washed i. in Baptisme in Christs bloud is cleane every whit needeth not save to wash his feet i. his conscience and conversation in the bloud of the Lamb but will have their hands and their head washed againe contrary to Christs counsell Joh. 13. For my part I beleeve one God one faith and one Baptisme Eph. 4. 5. The first is of God the second must needs be of the Devill that deny little children to come to Christ which can come no other way to him but by Baptisme either of themselves or of their parents for Baptisme is the Arke for the parents and their houshold 1 Pet. 3. 21. and then withdraw themselves from the children of God to perdition Heb. 10. 39. Now the Law hath most need to be thundred out in the most killing manner that can be in the Armies to make them flee and stand a far off from injustice and all sinne for although the Law is not given to the righteous man who are freed from the condemnation accusation malediction coaction of the Law as they are in Christ but it is given to the lawlesse and disobedient to the ungodly and to sinners to the unholy and to the prophane and to the murtherers of fathers and mothers to manslayers to whoremongers to buggerers to menstealers to lyers to the perjured and to whatsoever is contrary to wholesome doctrine 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. And therefore it must be preached to them you must hold out to them first the glasse of the Law to see their faces how foule they are they may goe wash their hearts in the bloud of the Lamb and then shew them the glasse of the Gospel Thus did Christ Mat. 5. Thus did Peter when he converted three thousand he shewed them by the law what betrayers and murtherers they were of the Lord of glory and then be preached baptisme unto them for salvation and shewed the promises were made to them and to their children and as many as the Lord shall call i. to beleeve that Baptisme belongs to them and all the true Churches of Christ have ever so understood it FINIS Mat. 20. 20. Revel. 3. 3. 1 Thes. 4. Gal. 3. 13. Matth. 3. Vers 11. 1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 3. 18. Psal. 32. 1. 1 Joh. 5. 4. Vers 20. Gen. 39. 9. John 8. 36. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Cor. 3. 17. Hab. 1. 13. Job 1. 1 Cor. 6. 16. Psal. 91. 11. If the King be in the battell you must sight flying to save his person as David but if the Phil●stims besiege K●●●● you shal overcome by the bloud of the Lambe Isaiah 53. 6. 1 Tim. 4. 1.