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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

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

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

generation of Serpents and Vipers do not bring forth Nightingals but a serpentine viperous and a poysonable brood so all men that are all evill trees by generation can bring forth nothing but evill fruit A second reason why all men are evill trees by nature and bring forth nothing but evill fruit because he hath an evill treasure of sin and wickednesse in his heart which cause him to bring forth sin before God that defile the man as our Saviour speaketh plainly an evill tree out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth evill things and what are they see Mar. 7. 21. Out of the heart proceedeth evill thoughts adulteries fornications murthers thefts covetousnesse wickedesse deceit uncleannesse a wicked eye backbiting pride foolishnesse all these things come from within and defile a man What an evill treasure is here there is not some fruit evill and some good for the thoughts of his heart are evill continually Gen. 6. For the very thoughts of the foolish are sin and an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15. 26. And so for their words they are evill continually for the prayers of the wicked are all sin and are turned into sin and shall be a wickednesse against them for what hast thou to do to take my covenant in thy mouth or my name when thou hatest to be reformed by baptisme and faith which would have brought forth reformed words And as for their works they are all evill before God for as Thornes and Thistles cannot bring forth Figs or Grapes so cannot these cursed trees bring forth good fruit but cursed whose end is to be burned The works and sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord Why all are such evill trees because sin is of such a defiling nature that it defileth the person and all his actions as one sin in the Angels and one sin in Adam and sin in Cain defiled his sacrifice so that God had no respect to Cains person nor his sacrifice Heb. 11. for sin had defiled him from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot that there was nothing but blains and sores and putrifying wounds which had made his person so evill and abominable before God that it could bring forth nothing but evill and abominable fruit Thus all men by originall sin are deprived of the glory of God and are deprived of power to bring forth good fruit for there is none that doth good no not one all are corrupt trees and can bring forth nothing but corrupt fruit and an evill tree saith Christ cannot bring forth good fruit Cannot an evill man do any good works Do we not see that they give almes build churches mend high wayes are not these good works An evill man may do good works before men as the Pharisees did they justified themselves by works before men but God knew their hearts i. that they were abominable Luke 16. 15. and not justified before God therefore he sayes to such that which is highly esteemed before men as great almes building of Temples and the like yet are abomination in the eyes of God because their persons are not in Christ neither are their consciences justified by faith in the blood of Christ therefore impure Tit. 1. 15. Is it so that all men are evill trees by generation conceived in sin and born in iniquity learn to bewail thy generation and see how wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked thou art by the same what an evill tree art thou by the same think not to say you have godly professors to your parents we are Gentlemen born or of Noble blood for all you that boast of such things are no better then the Pharisees which boasted they had Abraham to their father and yet being not in Christ God was not their Father but they were the generation of Vipers before God so are you that are not born of water and the Spirit and will not believe it you are by nature children of wrath and by generation as abominable before God as the generation of Vipers before men a deadly and poysonable generation for the she Viper in copulation biteth off the head of the fire and kils him and when she hath conceived the young Vipers gnaw out the bowels of their dam and kill her and therefore a most cursed generation so art thou so poysoned with sin that thou wilt destroy thy father that begat thee in the faith and mother Church as the Anabaptists and the people of it by persecuting the children of God Let this be a means to teach thee to bewail thy old birth with David saying I was conceived in sin and born in iniquity and so to be cast down for thy old birth that thou mayest flie to thy baptisme as David desired it Wash me with Hyssop and I shall be clean purge me and I shall be whiter then snow desire the Lord to manifest thy baptisme unto thee for no man can truly desire the new birth untill he see how miserable he was by the old for if thou couldest see how many sins thou hast brought forth by reason of the old birth it would be a means greatly to move thee to desire the new birth for your children and desire to understand your baptisme which Christ promised to Peter that knew not what Christ did when he washed him but he told him he should know it afterward So it would make us to desire to know afterward what Christ did for us at our baptism When David saw that he had committed adultery and murther he cryed out of his old birth but thou hast committed adultery before God for he or she that looketh on a woman or man to lust after them hath committed adultery in his heart and thou which hatest thy brother art a murtherer before God and he that saith to his brother Thou fool is worthy to be punished with hell fire and art in debt ten thousand talents of sins hast committed them O flie to Christ for to reveal thy new birth or else thou must be damned with the Devill and his angels because they are not born of water and the Spirit they cannot see the kingdome of God and no more shalt thou if thou be not of that faith Is it so that all men by nature are evill trees bearing evill fruit because they have an evill treasure of their heart that bringeth forth evill things As evill thoughts which defile a man before God Then consider what an evill treasure thou hast in thy heart all this while thou hast been ready to boast of it and to say thou hast a good heart to God-ward though thou canst not speak so much or pray as others yet thou meanst well and serve God and say the Creed the Lords Prayer and ten Commandements every day But I tell thee thou hast an evill treasure in thy evill heart that hath brought forth