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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

you trusted in him vers. 3 O trust in the Lord Jesus for ever for in the Lord our righteousnesse Jer. 23. 6. is strength for evermore vers. 4. for he will bring down them that dwell on high that fight against you the high city of Rome will he abase even unto the ground and bring it unto the dust v. 5. that your fee● shall tread it down and all doctrine of infidelity I call you White-rayment Christians if any ask my reasons they are these First because you are the few names in Laodicca of England as well as in Sardis that have not defiled your garments ● by a false faith or raigning sin therefore you shall walk with Christ in white for you are worthy Rev 3. 4. Secondly whosoever overcomes shall be clo●hed with white rayment saith Christ Rev. 3. 5. but you have overcome 1 John 4. 4. Ergo you shall be clothed with i● and therefore shall be white-rayment Christians for whomsoever Christ saith shall be clothed with white rayment I may truly call a white-rayment Christian but you overcommers are they that Chist saith shall be clothed with white rayment E●go I may truly call you white-rayment Christians Thirdly whosoever have bought of Christ white rayment that he may be clothed that the shame of his nakednesse may not appear may be called a white-rayment Christian because he hath bought it Rev. ● 18. But you are they Ergo Again whosoever watcheth and keepeth Christs garments that are white as Rev 3. 18. lest hee walk naked and they see his shame is a blessed white-rayment Christian as Rev. 16. 15. But you are such Ergo you are blessed white-rayment Christians Also you are citizens of the new Jerusalem for on whomsoever Christ will write upon the name of the city of my God the new Jerusalem which cometh down from my God out of heaven Rev. 3. 12. shall rightly be called a citizen of the new Jerusalem but on you that have overcome Christ will write the name of the new Jerusalem Rev 3. 12. Ergo you shall be called citizens of the new Jerusalem This was spoken to Philadelphia not to us of Laodicea I answer whatsoever was spoken to any one of the seven Churches runs into the last for let him that hath an eare heare what the Spirit saith to the Churches Rev. 3. it saith it to you overcommers in Laodicea in England for what I say to you I say to all Marke 13. Now concerning the Philadelphians that were admonished by Christ to hold fast that they had that no man take their crown Rev. 3. 11. I gather the Philadelphians being admonished to hold it fast should lose it for if man must hold fast a crown he will lose it and that the La●d ceans should take it from them for the white-rayment Christians that have overcome and taken Christs counsell Rev. 3. 18. shall take their crown from them to be called first citizens of the new Jerusalem And you shall take the crown from the Lutheranes because they defiled their garments and their works were not perfect before God Rev 3. 2 3. and shall be called first White rayment Christians Secondly whosoever is come to the celestiall Jerusalem and to be citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God are citizens of the new Jerusalem but by the blood of Christ in Baptisme and by faith Eph. 2. 13. Rev. 1. 5. you are come to the celestiall Jerusalem Heb 12. 22. and to be citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God Ephes. 2. 19. Ergo you are citizens of the mew Jerusalem therefore call your selves no more the Church of England or of the Lu●herans or the like for they are shaken and shall be removed Heb. 12. 27. but call your selves White-rayment Christians and citizens of the new Jerusalem for you see God calls you so Now your city is of pure gold like cleer glasse Rev. 21. 18. for your city of the new Jerusalem is built of pure gold that Christ hath counselled you to buy of him Rev 3. 18. which is the lively faith in the merit● of Christs death in our baptisme for remission of sins Acts 2. 38. in the first love of Christ not of such as have taken a new baptisme and so forsaken their first love of Christ as the Church of Ephesus did and therefore the candlestick of the Church was removed out of their place Rev. 2. 5. because they tooke a second baptisme and forsook their first for which cause the Councel of Nice made it an Article of their Creed I believe one Baptisme for the remission of sins and it is like cleer glasse because through this golden glasse of your baptisme wherein you were washed sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 1● you may see the face of God through it what a reconciled mercifull and loving Father he is to you that hath sealed a new Covenant to you to become your father and you his children and that your sins and iniquities shall be remembred no more Heb. 8. 12. and you may see through this glasse of your baptisme the face of Jesus what a blessed meek and loving Saviour he is to you that hath loved you and gave himself for you Gal. 2. 20. and washed you from your sins in his own blood and made you Kings and Priests to God his Father Ephes. 5. 25. Rev. 1. 5. and you may see as in a glasse 1 Cor. 13. 12 what a blessed holy and sweet Comforter you have that hath washed you in the new birth and the renewing of the holy Ghost Titus 3. 5. And the street of your city is of pure gold like to transparent glasse Rev. 21. 21. O walk in this golden street for it is transparent like perspective glasse for as he that hath a good perspective glasse may see far off so may you even your sins set as far as the East is from the West Psal. 103. 12. Peter complaineth of many that are blind and cannot see far off because they have forgotten their baptisme wherein they were washed from their old sins they have forgotten this transparent glasse But all you citizens of the new Jerusalem walk in this golden street of your baptisme it is a perspective glasse and as in a perspective glasse men look through two glasses so in this there are two glasses the first is made of the pure river of the water of life cleer as Crystall which is the pure water of baptisme Heb. 10. 23. the second is the blood of the Lamb both these meet in one look through them both together and anoint your eyes with eye-salve of the Spirit and you shall see far off even into heaven and behold Christ to be your wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. and your blessednesse happinesse holinesse eternall life everlasting glory immortality yea thou may see thy name