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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

Christ the same is very God and eternall life for when a man is in Christ by baptisme for his person and in his white raiment by faith to his conscience hee is made partaker of Christs victory upon the Crosse over sin death the Devill and Hell for by faith in the white raiment that Christ is risen again for our justification and hath justified us we receive power to subdue sin the world and the Devill which are all overcome by faith in our first resurrection which is to our persons and baptisme when our bodies are washed with pure water Heb. 10. 23. but the first resurrection to our consciences is when wee are converted and believe the white raiment is ours that clotheth us that our filthy nakednesse should not appear Rev. 3. 18. wherein wee shew we are risen with Christ Col. 3. v. 1. for all that appeared to bring tidings of Christs resurrection appeared in white or shining raiment to shew that no man can tell of his first resurrection untill he can tell of his white raiment as Matth. 28. 3. Mar. 16. 5. Luke 24. 4. Jo●. 21. 12. all in white so must you if you be risen with Christ you must appear in white or else no victory over the Devill Thirdly hee that would overcome the Devill and all his Instruments of the world hee must not be a blind souldier as many are that fight for money and by ends but get the Devill into their hearts by covetousnesse and cheating souldiers as Judas did and the Devill gets them as he did him you must therefore buy of Christ eye-salve of his Spirit i. to walk by the Spirit to fight by the Spirit i. by the directions of the Oracle of Gods Word for men ought not to fight any battell before they have asked counsel at the Oracle of Gods Word as David did to know whether God do approve of that war or no and eye-salve to discern the true Religion from the false for else he may fight for the false Religion for Antichrist and not for Christ and also for eye-salve of the Spirit hee may keep himself from all wickednesse when hee goes forth with the host Deut. 23. 9. to keep a good conscience before God and before men for he that will plunder rob spoil and steal and whore and do wickedly shall not overcome the Devill but is overcome of him Thus must a true Christian souldier stand out in life and death against all adversarie power whatsoever Now being thus prepared by Christs counsell to fight against the World and the Devill I will shew you how you shall overcome the Devill by the blood of the Lamb by divers Reasons Reason 1 The first Reason why the best way to overcome the Devill is by the blood of the Lamb because you know the Devill fights against all men by sin either tempting men to sin or to despaire for sin committed Now when a Christian tempted to commit sin shews unto Satan the bloud of the Lambe as Joseph said How can I doe this evill and sin against God So say thou How can I doe this evill and sin against the bloud of the Lamb Thou shalt overcome him as Joseph did Or if Satan tempt thee to despaire as he did Judas if thou shew him the bloud of the Lamb he must needs be conquered for by that thou wilt testifie thy redemption and the murder of Satan that thou hast redemption through the bloud of the Lamb the forgivenesse of thy sins but the Devill hath not for this bloud of the Lamb testifies that Satan was a murderer from the beginning to our first parents to the first Adam and that he hath slaine the second Adam the Lord Jesus Christ here is the bloud of the Lamb that thou hast shed for who put into the heart of Judas to betray him and into the hearts of the Jewes to crucifie him but thou Satan Therefore this bloud of the Lamb testifies the remission of my sins and it testifies that thou art a murderer and thus the red colours of Christs bloud being displayed Satan cannot indure the field but will flie like a beaten Souldier for hereby the Devill is redargued to be the sinner and must despaire Reason 2 A second Reason why you shall overcome the Devill by the bloud of the Lamb because Satan fights against men by the curse of the Law to shew them how cursed they are by it but by the bloud of the Lamb you shall shew unto him that Christ by his bloud hath redeemed you from the curse of that law was made a curse for you for cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree that we might obtaine the blessing of Abraham And this testifies my blessednesse that Christ hath blotted out the hand-writing of the Law that made us cursed by his owne bloud Col. 2. 14. Thus by the bloud of the Lamb thou shalt testifie against the Devill that thou art freed and if the Sonne hath made thee free thou art free indeed Joh. 8. But this bloud of the Lamb testifies Satan is a murderer and so a transgressour of the Law and therefore cursed Now as men that have committed murder and they see 't is discovered will presently run away so Satan seeing men fighting against him by the bloud of the Lamb that testifies their freedome from the curse of the Law and how they stand fulfillers of the Law and also testifying how the Devill is a transgressour a murderer and so cursed by it he will not indure the field 't is time for him to run Reason 3 A third Reason why thou shalt overcome him by the bloud of the Lamb because Satan fights against all men by the feare of death Now when thou shewest unto Satan the bloud of the Lamb thou doest thereby testifie the victory of Christ over death saying Thanks be unto God that hath given us victory over death by Christs bloud so that death is unto me advantage and by the bloud of the Lamb testifiest to Satan that he is guiltie of the bloud of thy husband Now what murderer amongst men will indure when he shall heare a faithfull wife making an out-cry against him thus O this man hath murdered my faithfull deare husband here is his bloud that this man hath shed Murder murder murder make hue and cry after him lay hold of him carry him to prison to the barre and to the Gallowes so when Satan heares the faithfull say O thou art guiltie of the bloud of my deare and faithfull husband the Lord Jesus Christ here is his bloud carry him to the prison of hell Now as Satan is like his children that are murderers he must run and be fearfull as murderers are afraid and flee when none pursue them so is Satan the most fearfull coward in the world that will flee fast enough if you shew him the bloud of the Lamb Resist the Devill by it and he shall flee from you Jam. 4. 7. Reason 4 A fourth