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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

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 evill things to God-ward as evill thoughts evill words and evill works and these are they that have defiled thee Doth your heart that

is so good to God-ward as you say bring forth such bad fruit which defile the man before God I tell thee thy heart is naught for how many thousand naughty thoughts hath it brought forth before God How many idle words to be accounted for at the day of judgement and how many evill actions hath it brought forth If thou hast not a new birth and therein remission of all these sins it had been better for thee that thou hadst never been born therefore learn to see the naughtinesse of thy heart and pray for a new heart with David Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me For they that think they have a good heart to God-ward never saw themselves to have a bad heart such are in a wofull condition poor and blinde and naked but they that see themselves to have a bad heart and cry to the Lord for a new one and by faith wash his heart with the Hyssop of Christs blood by receiving the other sacrament of the blood of Christ to sprinkle his heart That man that cryeth unto the Lord against the corruption of his old heart and prayeth unto the Lord to create in him a new heart and goeth unto the Lords Supper that man hath a new birth and hath a new heart though he cannot feel it so new as he would Did not the good trees in the time of the Law bring forth bad fruit before God as David Moses Miriam Jehosaphat and yet they were not cut down and cast into the fire And so why may not good trees now do so bring forth some fruit good and some bad before God I answer in the time of the Law the axe was not laid to the root of the trees it was laid to the boughs and branches for God said I hewed them by my Prophets Hos. 6. 5. And you see how David for his ill fruit had four branches cut off the childe conceived in adultery was smitten of the Lord and died and the Lord said The sword shall not depart from thy house three other of his sons were cut off by the sword And Hiel the Bethulite had two sons cut off by the axe of the Law as you may see Josh. 6. 26. Joshua said Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth Jericho he shall lay the foundation thereof in his eldest son and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates thereof i. his eldest son shall die by this curse when he begins to build and his youngest shall die when he set up the gates thereof This curse seemed to lie asleep many hundred yeers and forgotten and therefore in Ahabs dayes Hiel the Bethulite builded Jercho he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his eldest son and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub i. they dyed according to the word of the Lord that he spake by Joshua and thus many Tribes of Israel were cut off by the Law though Judah remained still But now Christ is come preaching the kingdome of heaven by Baptisme into Christ to put on Christ now the ax is laid to the root of the trees of all Nations Churches and particular men to shew that all men now must be made good trees in Christ to bring forth none but good fruit before God or else the ax of the Law and Gods Decree and sword or judgements of curses is laid to their roots and are hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath as Christs own words declare Mat. 7. 19. for there is no more sacrifice for sin Christ hath now set open such a fountain in Baptisme that doth more then all the sacrifices of the Law with one offering he hath perfected for ever all them that are sanctified Heb. 11. 14. i. in Baptisme For every person that will not heare that Prophet i. Christ to be washed in Christs blood in baptisme shall be destroyed out of the people Acts 3. 23 i. he that will not let Christ wash him he may have part in him without which he shall have none Joh. 13. 8. as the Pharises i. he that will not be graffed into Christ to bring forth none but good fruit before God he is hewn down by the Word of God he that will not believe shall be damned i. he that will not believe he is in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ which no man can believe but by his baptisme as Joh. 3. 5. Every person that will not make the tree good and the fruit good by baptisme and saith or the tree evill and the fruit evil by Adam and infidelity shall be destroyed out of the people O this civill war wherein Christ is come as a thiefe or with a judgement like thieves shall destroy multitudes of people because they will not obey Christ to let him wash them because they will not believe their Baptisme into Christ in infancy for evill trees bring not forth good fruit for some bring forth none as the Civilian Hew him down why combreth he the ground some bring forth lukewarmnesse some infidelity some ignorance some drunkennesse swearing lying banning and cursing all these are bad fruit such are hewn down and cast into the fire howsoever they are hewn down in conscience and that remaineth under wrath without any assurance of salvation though the person if it be elect may be under mercy graffed into Christ and all these sins forgiven in his baptisme which he knows not till he repent and believe Is it so that all men by nature are evill trees bringing forth evill fruit because sin within them is of such a defiling nature that it hath made both person and actions filthy and unclean Consider the horrible filthinesse of sin how it hath polluted and defiled the heavens and the earth for they shall wax old as doth a vesture and as a garment shalt thou change them they shall be burned because they be subject to vanity for the sin of man they groan and travell in pain for the pollution of sin so are thy person and actions become unclean by the defilement of sin O bewail thy sin make haste out of thy miserable and wretched condition by sin make haste to Christ by saith who came to take away our sins for thy sins have made thee subject to burning The heavens and the earth and all things therein shall be burnt because they are subject to vanity for the bondage of corruption The Angels that are polluted with sin shall be burned in hell for ever burning and never consumed The wicked that are not graffed into Christ shall be burned with the Devill and his angels where the worm dyeth not and the fire never goeth out and yet darest thou remain

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.

Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal 1 Sam. 15. 33. so are all men that will not receive Christ by baptisme hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath Joh. 3. 36. as Jews Turks and Heathens Sometimes it is taken for hewing by degrees as Exod. 31. 4. Hew thee two tables of stone Metaphorically it is taken for the preaching of the Law by the Prophets So Hos. 6. 5. Therefore I have hewn them by my Prophets and slain them with the words of my mouth by punishments and plagues and curses of the Law for their sins Therefore the Law and the Prophets indured untill John i. hewing them and slaying them as in Hosea for their sins and since that time the kingdome of Heaven is preached and every man presseth unto it How is the Kingdome of Heaven to be preached By faith and baptisme for remission of sins is preached by baptisme and the righteousnesse of Christ without which no kingdome of Heaven but by baptisme we come into the large heaven of remission of sins as Luther calls it in which we have remission of all sins past present and to come for the doctrine and work of Baptisme it came down from heaven as Christ posed the Pharisees The baptisme of John was it from heaven or of men intimating it was from Heaven But why did he call it the baptisme of John not the doctrine or ministery of John Answ To shew that his baptisme was the most heavenly thing For there was a man sent from God whose name was John Job 1. 6. And what was he sent to do Answ. To baptize He that sent me to baptize with water said unto me Vpon whom thou seest the Spirit of God come down and tarrying still upon him that is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost By all which you see that where baptisme is truly preached and administred there the Kingdome of Heaven is preached and is at hand and in it the Kingdome of Heaven is set open to all the elect and according to the established doctrine of the Church of England which all that have taken the Protestation are sworn to maintain that in my baptisme I was made a member of Christ a childe of God and an inheritor of the Kingdome of Heaven which is a heavenly point of doctrine that agrees with the reformed Churches and Scriptures for if any be made an inheritor of that Kingdome it must be by baptisme For Verily verily I s●y unto thee saith Christ Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot see the Kingdome of God Joh. 3. 5. For that which is born of the flesh is flesh and unclean and unfit for the Kingdome of heaven untill it be new born What is meant by good fruit All the fruit that man brings forth before God is sin or righteousnesse every evill man brings forth evill fruit of sin and every good man bringeth forth good fruits of righteousnesse A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit namely before God Matth. 7. 17. So that every man Church or Nation that will not now receive baptisme or believe by baptisme into Christ he is made a good tree and brings forth nothing but good fruit before God through remission of sins and Christs righteousnesse he is hewn down and cast into the fire What is meant by fire By fire in this place is not meant hell fire though they shall go afterward into hell fire that do not escape but they are cast into the fire of Gods wrath signifying that every man that bringeth forth evill fruit of sin before God that believes not by baptisme his sins are all forgiven and that in Christ he bringeth forth fruit of righteousnesse before God he is hewn down and cast into the fire of Gods wrath as is plain Joh. 3. 36. He that believeth in the Son which none can do before he be baptized into him bath everlasting life he that obeyeth not the Son i. to let him wash him Joh. 13. 8. shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him For fire is kindled in my wrath and it shall burn to the bottome of hell and set on fire the foundation of the mountains Deut. 32 22. Now in that he saith Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit we gather that all men now baptisme is offered are good trees or bad there are none indifferent or partly good and partly bad This is proved Matth. 12. 33. Either make the tree good and his fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill Augustine saith he commanded the Jews that they should be good trees and to bring forth good fruit and in that he saith make the tree evill he admonisheth them that they should not be evill for the Pharisees declared themselves to be evill trees by their evill fruit Others take it that Christ spake of himself as of a tree Thus the tree is known by the fruit and the fruit is like the tree The casting out devills is a good fruit as you grant in your children therefore if you in your words and judgements make the fruit good then also make the tree good for an evill tree cannot bring forth good fruit Mat. 7. 18. Say of him that cast out devils he is a good tree not the prince of devils but if you make the tree evill and say I am an evill man and have the devill Beelzebub do not attribute the casting out of devils which is good fruit to an evill tree for an evill tree as Beelzebub is cannot bring forth good fruit nor an evill man by Adam cannot bring forth good fruit before God This you may see Matth. 7. 17. So every good tree that is made good by baptisme into Christ bringeth forth good fruit before God and a corrupt tree by Adam as all are by generation bringeth forth evill fruit i. before God Calvin noteth that this was the opinion of the Pharisees that they were partly good trees and partly bad and that they brought forth some good fruit before God and some bad for which they did sacrifice as some say now they are partly flesh and partly spirit and therefore do bring forth some fruits good and some bad and this was the opinion of the old Pharisees for their fained sanctimony was such that the people perceived them not Now Christ puts away this vizird and uncaseth all Hypocrites and tels them that all men are good or bad before God a good tree bringeth nothing but good fruit before God and a bad tree nothing but bad as Matth. 7. 18. for there is nothing such an enemy to true Christianity as to counterfeit a man in a twofold estate before God but they do in vain think themselves righteous that are not made good trees by baptisme into Christ for such justifie themselves before men and think to make themselves righteous in whole or

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