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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

we are made members of his body of his flesh and of his bone i. spirituall members straitly coupled together unto him for seeing Christ hath loved his Church and sanctified it and cleansed it through the washing of the water through the Word Ephes. 5. 26. he so made us to himself a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blame vers. 27. and by that Baptisme are we made members of his body of his flesh and of his bones as vers. 30. And therefore Christ doth feed us with his body and blood by faith that we might dwell in Christ and Christ in us that we might be certain that we are incorporated into him by Baptisme Therefore he took flesh of the Virgine to testifie that he acknowledgeth us for his members for Christ may as truly say of his elect that are baptized into Christ and have put on Christ as Adam said of Evah when she was married to him She is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh so Christ may say of all the elect that are married to him by Baptisme They are members of my body of my flesh and of my bones And by this means i. by Baptisme and by faith is the heart made a good treasure for God said I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your filthinesse and a new heart and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the stony heart and give you an heart of flesh Ezek. 36. 25 26. and this heart is purified by faith Acts 15. 9. for when the heart is made pure it is made a good treasure for all things are pure to it so that as it is said on the one side of them that are not sanctified that the unbelieving and impure they are defiled Tit. 1. 15 16. But also as the Prophet Hagg●i crieth out so are all the works of these peoples hands and that which they offer in the Temple is unclean Hag. 2. 15. signifying all comes from an unclean treasure So on the other side to the pure that is to them that are washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and the Spirit of our God in Baptisme and their hearts purified from their sins by faith in the blood of the Lamb all things are pure and all the works of their hands what they offer in the Temple is made good fruit in the Spirit of God freely and thereby acceptable in the sight of God whom nothing can please but that which is pure and hereupon David giveth this answer to his own question Who shall dwell in the Tabernacle of the Lord and who shall rest in his holy hill even he that hath innocent hands which no man can have but by remission of sins in Baptisme wherein a mans hands are washed in Christs innocency and a pure heart which Christians obtain by faith in the blood of Christ Thus having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water we may keep our profession without wavering Heb. 10. 22 23. with innocent hands and a pure heart which shall see God Mat. 5. Men are made good trees by putting on Christs white rayment righteousnesse as a garment as Gal. 3. 27. Now if a man had such a garment that would make all his thoughts words and works good it would make him a good tree Adam you know hath so clothed all naturall men that he hath made all their thoughts words and actions evill shall we not grant as much to Christ to make the tree good and the fruit good If a man can bring a green tree to grow over a drie the green tree will make the drie green also and finde sap enough and make it bring forth much fruit as we have seen in a part of a tree being green growing over a dead and drie part it makes it fruitfull So Christ is a green tree and we drie as he saith If they have done thus to t●… green tree what shall be done to the drie Answ Truly if Christ do not grow over it and over the fruit of it it shall burne Men are made good trees by his Spirit for by one Spirit we are baptized into one body and made all to drink into one Spirit i. in Baptisme we are regenerate and new born of water and the Spirit that we might be one spirituall body whereof Christ is the head and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Therefore in the Supper we drink the blood of Christ that we might be made partakers more and more of the Spirit of Christ to be all of one minde and spirit Now he that bringeth forth fruit before God in the Spirit of Christ shall be saved otherwise he is hewn down and cast into the fire What are none made good trees but those that are graffed and baptized into Christ to bring forth good fruit before God Was not Cornelius his prayer and almes good fruit before God which came up to God before Baptisme Acts 10. And what say you of Infants dying before Baptisme I answer that Cornelius did pray in faith that Christ was to come as the Jews did before his coming which brought forth some fruits of faith that Christ should come and take away their sins and they brought forth some bad fruits of transgression of the Law as David for which they sacrificed Now therefore Cornelius being an elect vessell that he might not stand in a twofold estate before God to bring forth some fruit good and some bad God sent an Angel from Heaven to him and bade him send for Peter and he shall shew thee what thou oughtest to do i. to be made a good tree to bring forth nothing but good fruit signifying he shall shew thee by faith in the death and resurrection of Christ and by baptisme into Christ the tree shall be made good and fruit good Matth. 12. 33. For by the Law they were under the heavy yoak that we nor our fathers were able to beare which bare some good fruits and some cursed as Jehosaphat 2 Chro. 19. 2. and Hezekiah 2 Chron. 23. 25. Now if a twofold estate had been good enough for Cornelius what needed an Angel be sent from Heaven to send for Peter to bring him into a better estate before God then he was in which shews that we have now a better estate before God by Baptisme into Christ then the Fathers had under the Law as the Apostle saith God providing a better thing for us Heb. 11. 40. we have a perfect remission of sins and no more sacrifice for sin are with one offering made perfect for ever that are sanctified and how is that by Baptisme Ephes. 5. 26. and by Faith Acts 26. 18. by Baptisme to the person and by faith to the conscience as Heb. 10.

all wars in Christendome is to teach them how they have all received one Spirit in Baptisme and baptized into one body that is a loving Spirit a peaceable meek and quiet Spirit that takes of Christs water and shews unto us and of Christs blood and shews unto us and of Christs righteousnesse and shews unto us Joh. 16. 14. But hast thou an hatefull spirit a wrangling angry fighting spirit that do not take of Christs water but of the Popes holy-water and shew to thee not of Christs blood and shews unto thee for remission of sins but of St. Frances his blood or some works of man for remission of sins or not Christs righteousnesse in Baptisme but mans righteousnesse and shew unto thee this is not the Spirit of Christ that the Saints are made to drink into at baptisme but thou hast forgot thy baptisme and so lost the Spirit of Christ for as the Spirit of God moved upon the waters i. as it were hatching and nourishing the cr●atures in the creation So doth the Spirit of Christ still move upon the waters of baptisme i. on the preaching of the faith of the same regenerating converting and nourishing these trees to make them bring forth fruit unto eternall life And therefore the Preachers of Baptisme shall convert most unto Christ because his Spirit will move upon the waters Mr. Perkins rule is this If a man would be a Student in Divinity let him learn and practise his baptisme Commentaries are needfull to the study of the Scriptures and the best Commentary to a mans own self is his own baptisme for if a man hath learned to practise his own baptisme he shall be the better able to understand the whole and without this help the Scriptures themselves shall be but a riddle unto us I desire to prize this rule and to make as much use of it as ever any Christian man did for untill men understand by this rule what is meant by this counsell of Christ to England under the type of Laodicea for it now appeareth to all the Churches what Christ wrote to Laodicea he would spue out him and his Hierarchy out of his mouth untill this counsell of Christ be taken I counsell thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayst be made rich Rev. 3. 18. that is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death in our baptisme into Christ which makes us rich sons of God Gal. 3. 26 27. and white raiment justification wherein no shame of nakednesse of sin appeare and eye-salve of the Spirit of Christ that takes of Jesus and shews unto us that came by water and blood not by water of Baptisme only but by water and blood 't is that Spirit beareth witnesse and that Spirit is truth 1 John 5. 6. Untill this counsell of Christ be taken in England and of the Lutherans the sword shall not cease 1. For as many as I love I rebuke and chasten Christ will not leave rebuking and chastening untill they be zealous of this counsell and repent of lukewarmnesse Rev. 3. 19. 2. For behold I stand at the dore and knock Ergo he will not be gone nor leave rapping with sword famine and pestilence untill they heare his voyce to buy gold white raiment and eye-salve and let Christ in to sup with them and they with him Rev. 3. 20. Then there shall arise in England the most conquering and raigning Church that ever arose in Chrstendome for to him that overcometh will I give to sit with me in my Throne as I overcame and sit with my Father in his Throne i. I raign and conquer and so shall my Church of England that take my counsell they shall conquer the Throne of the Beast and the false Prophet they are the woman clothed with the Sun white raiment Christians and citizens of the new Jerusalem Of this I have written at large and of the causes why this sword is upon the Land and what remedies must be used before it will cease O thou sword of the Lord How long will it be ere thou be quiet Turn again into scabberd rest and be still how can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Askelon in England Scotland Ireland and against the Sea-shore There hath he appointed it Jer. 47. 6 7. He hath appointed the sword in Germany and England untill Christs counsell be taken Rev. 3. 18. For when they wil be guided by his counsel they shall be received to the glory of his Throne to conquer and raign upon earth Rev. 5. 10. FINIS See 2 Esdr. 7. 26. 34 35. See 2 Esdr. 6. 28. See 2 Esdras 15 ● 6. 14 15 16 17 8 19. 22 23 24 26 26 37. See 2 Esd 16. 10 11. 14 15. 19. 5. 33. 8. 46. All that get into this city are safe M● Mi. Con. M● Mi. Con. Ma. Mi. Con. Ma. Mi. Con. Ma. Mi. Con. Object Ma. Mi. Con. Hebr. 8. 2 Pet. 1. 9. Rev. 22. 1. Ma. Mi. Con. See 2 Esdra 8. 52 53 54 to 63. 1 Cor. 2. 2. Nicen Creed Athanasius Gen. 6. Rev. 3. 20. See 2 Esdras 13. 31. Ma. Mi. Con. Isaiah 40. Mal. ● Prepare away in their hearts Joh. 1. 12. As Kings Vallies He shall turn the hearts as Elias did He thundred out the Law Was a pointer Lest he smile with a curse Oh that the Lord would raise such another Rev. 3. 18. Mat. 17. 12. Iohn signifies the grace of God therefore should be a Preacher of free Grace Great for he shall be a Baptist Filled with the Holy Ghost from the womb As Peter told the Iews Be baptized every one in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost Acts 2. 38. The rule to know all Sermons by Make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill The abomination of Antichrist Seing that there is such a testimony of Iohn Baptist Let us be Baptists He drew all sects 1. to baptizing then to Christ He that gathereth not into Christs baptisme scattereth The cause of all the sects and divisions of England for when men have lost baptisme then to work for remission of their righteousnesse The Law the summe to bring them to repentance The Kingdom of Heaven was at hand In Christ righteousness and peace and joy Acts 8. 39. 4. Garment 5. Went out to see a Prophet sent of God Ioh. 1. 33. He so preached the Law Acts 19. By baptisme we are made made clean Acts 22. 16. Ephes. 5. Iohn 3. 5. Titus 3. 5. Doctrine of Devills Iohn 13. 7. Vers 7. Pharisees and Sadduces Sadduces The losse of Baptisme is the cause of all sects O ye sects flee from the wrath to come Christ is come as a thiefe Iohn 10. 10. Not make your selves more righteous then Christ Verse 8. Verse 9. Ezek. 36. 26. Verse 10. What the Ax signifies What is meant by trees What meant by hewn down Luke 16. 16. Answ Joh. 1. 33. Ephes. 5. 30. Gal 3. 26 27. Joh 1. 12. Rom. 8. 17. What is meant by fruit Doctr. That all men are good trees or bad trees Augustine 12. Serm de verbis ●om Mat. 12 33. Chrysost. Emth. Hieron Theoph. Opinion of the Pharisees Reason 1. Jerem. 24. Reason 2. Reason 3. 1 Joh. 5. 6. Tit. 3. 5. Joh. 15. 6. As the confession of witches Ephes. 4. 5. By hypocrisie Gal. 3. 27. The Devill likes a second Baptisme well enough for he never perswaded any to denie their second Baptisme Reason 4. Where Baptisme is refused grace is refused as in Jewes Turks Heathens and Anabaptists to their children 〈…〉 23. 37. Doct. 2. That all men by nature are evil trees and can bring forth none but ill fruit ●at 7. 17 〈…〉 19. Luk● 6. 43 44. Rom. 6. 20. Reason●● For all men are evill by generation Rom. 3. 13 to 19. Crab-trees Serpents Reason 2. For he hath an evill treasure Luke 6. 45. Mar. 27. Gen. 6. 15. Pro● 15. 26. Prov. 15. 8. Reason 3. For one sin is of such a defiling nature that it defiles the person and actions Heb. 11. Ob. Almes Answ Luke 16. 15. Titus 1. 15. Vse Bewail thy generation Rev. 3. 17. Say not Abraham Generation of Vipers The Anabaptists against Luher at Munster shew what generation they are of Flie to Baptisme to be washed as David Peter knew not Mat. 5. Vse 2. An evill treasure in the heart Foolishnes to boast of a good heart How many thousand naughty thoughts Pray for a new heart Psal. 51. Ob. Answ Hos. 11. Iohn 3. 5 No more sacrifice Ephes. 5. 26. Heb. 10. 14. Acts 3. 23 John 13. 8. 1 Ioh. ● 20● Ioh. 3. 5. Make the trees good and the fruit good Christ is come as a thiefe Civilian Vse Is sin of such a defiling nature Heavens Rom. 8. 20 21. Doct. 3. All that are made good trees by Baptisme into Christ shall be saved Gal. 3. 27. Isai. 61. 3. Matth 7. 17. Calvin Luke 6. 44. Psal. 104. 1 John 3. 9. Psal. 1. 1 Ioh. 5. 6. Ioh. 15. 8. Psal. 19. Quest Answ 1 By graffing Rom. 11. 17. 24. Rom. 6. 5. 2. For we are made branches of the Vine John 15. 5. Two trees Reason 3. For we are made members of his body Ephes. 5. 30. Gen. 2. How is the heart made good Ezek. 36. ●5 1 Cor. 6. 11. John 1. 7. 4. By planting on Christ L●ke 23. 31. 5. By his Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 13. Quest Answ Psal. 130. 8. Acts 10. 6 Heb. 10. 14. 1 Pet. 3. 22. Acts 16. 34. Ob. Answ Ephes. 5. 27. 1 John Quest Answ As Arminians and Papists 1 Iohn 3. 10. James ● 10. ● John 3. 5. Mar. 4. 2● to 29. Vse 2. Psal. 52. 8. Vse 2. Vse 3. Acts 7. Joh. 5. 20. See Brightman on that place Rev. 3. 10. Vse Vse 1 Cor. 12. 13. Gen. 1. On Gal. 2. 27. page 265. Rev. 12. 1. Rev. 3. 4. Rev. 3. 12.

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 J●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 up●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 a● of the Law yet that you are good trees of righteousnesse of his own planting that God may be glori●ied and shall be saved Isai. 61. ● 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 stress● of the ba●●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 helm●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 testi●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 pra●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 wa●ls and bulwarks Isai. 26. 1. open ye the gates of it Rev. 22. 14. that you the righteous nation that keep the truth ma● enter in for by an assured purpose will Christ preserve perfect peace for you because

knocking with judgements till they take his counsell Rev. 3. 18. if any man will heare my voyce saith he and open the dore I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me You see Christ raps loud with the sword and cannons and he will knock with an earth-quake and with pestilence Luke 21. 11. In England and Scotland where are Saints with the sword and pestilence but in Ireland where are most Idolaters with sword and famine reasons I give in a book to come out in Christs knock at the dores of England Now is it not good letting of Christ in to sup with us and we with him when hee knocks and calls to us to take his counsel to buy of him gold to make us rich in the lively faith of the merits of Christs death in baptisme for a perfect remission of sins for he likes not this lukewarm lame remission of sins to halfes which many professe and white-rayment justification to cloath us that the shame of our nakednesse may not appeare and eye-salve of the Spirit that takes of Jesus water and blood to witnesse to your spirits you are the children of God Rom. 8. 17. that thou mayst see Rev. 3. 18. Christ will not leave rebuking and chastising England and knocking till they heare and let him in Now therefore let the loynes of your minds be girt about with verity and your lamps of faith burning Luke 12. 35. and ye your selves like men that wait for their Master when he will return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find waking i. in the wedding garment Verily I say unto you he will gird himself about and will make them sit down at table and will come forth and serve them and if he come at the second watch or in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants vers. 36 37. Now you blessed White-rayment Christians understand that Christ our Master is now returning from the wedding for I believe not any more Churches of the Gentiles before the marriage of the Lamb to the Iews shall be called and the third watch is come and the dawning of the day of the Iews is at hand and our Master now knocketh the dinner of the wedding of the Gentiles hath lasted about 1623. for the marriage of the Gentiles was called a dinner Mat. 22. 4. and the marriage dinner was furnished with guests of good and bad for all had not a wedding garment and therefore bad Now as noble Bridegrooms often times will bid a multitude to dinner but none but his speciall friends are bidden to supper So Christ the most noble Bridegroom hath bidden seven Churche● of the Gentiles to the dinner of the marriage and now he is returning from the wedding of the Gentiles and he knocks and calls Rev. 3. 20. Blessed are you that let him in immediately for he calls for you his friends the White rayment Christians to come to supper Give me leave to shew you the friends of the Bridegroom why Christ now knocks and calls in England it is to call you to supper all that were bidden to the wedding-dinner were not blessed But now he saith write Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb these are the true sayings of God Rev. 19. 9. The wedding-dinner is past and Christ is returning from the wedding as Luke 12. 36. and behold he standeth at the dore and knocks in England with the sword and pestilence let him in for it seems some have not let him yet say it is the voyce of my well beloved that knocks saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled for mine head is full of dew and my locks with the drops of the night Cant. 5. 2. for men that are let in use not to knock but those that are shut out Christ is about to marry his wife of the Iewes that shall make her self ready by baptisme and faith and he will grant to her to be clothed in fine linen bright and pure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the justifications of the Saints Rev. 19. 8. And now Christ knocks at the dore in England to call his friends to go with him to the marriage-supper with his wife and will begin his supper in England he will sup with them Rev. 3. 20. The most rarest junkets are kept for the marriage-supper Now therefore heark hee sayes I will sup with him that lets me in and he with me see how Esdras prophesied of you 2 Esdras 2. 38. Arise and stand up and behold the number of those that are sealed for the feast of the Lord which are departed from the shadow of the world and have received glorious garments of the Lord Take thy number O Sion and shut up them that are clothed in white which have fulfilled the Law of the Lord Here you see he prophesied of you White-rayment Christians sealed for the feast as Christ doth Rev. 3. 4. 18. 16. 15. Now therefore all you that have put on Christ in infant-baptisme Gal. 3. 27. and made your long robes white in the blood of the Lamb as my Sermon of the blood of the Lamb declares prepare a supper for Christ the cheere must be prepared of hearts My son give me thy heart and it must be broken and contrite for he loves no stones that will not break for the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit A br●ken and a centrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psal. 51. 17. Secondly these hearts must be served in at your supper in gold that he counselleth you to buy of him Rev. 3. 18. which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death in one baptisme for remission of sins for thus Peter served in three thousand hearts that were pricked by the Law in baptisme in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins Acts 2. 38. Thirdly you must serve it in in the white-rayment justification wherein no shame of nakednesse do appeare for Christ cannot endure sin Fourthly you must buy eye-salve of the Holy Ghost to anoint your eyes that you may see Rev. 3. 18. For Christ will not sup with blind sinners Fifthly the marriage-chamber must be paved with the love of the daughters of Ierusalem Cant. 3. 10. i. with love to all the citizens of the new Ierusalem and now invite him saying Arise thou North-wind and come thou South and blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out let my well beloved come into his garden and eat of his pleasant fruits Cant. 4. Now Christ hath prepared a supper for you for thus he saith I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrbe with my spice I have eaten mine honey comb with mine honey I have drunk my wine with my milke eat O friends drink and make you

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

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