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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

in sin and pollute thy self more and more Well make haste to believe thy baptisme for the world will not hold thee long nor God indure thee to behold the light of this Son that will walk in darknesse of infidelity out of Christ for the ax is laid to the root of the trees every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire but thou dost bring forth bad fruit of sin Ergo thou art hewn down and cast into the fire In the second place we gather that all that are made good trees by Baptism into Christ to bring forth fruit before God shall be saved and not be cut down and cast into the fire All men have now the ax of Baptism laid to their roots except Jews and Heathens and Anabaptists which despise the counsell of God to their damnation to cut them out of the old Adam to graffe them into the new for it is certain that in Baptisme we put off the old man and put on the new for thereby the Father Son and Holy Ghost do graffe us into Christ and make us trees of righteousnesse trees of his own planting that the Lord may be glorified Isai. 61. 3. Now should Gods good trees of righteousnesse bring forth bad fruit of sin before God He saith no Mat. 7. 17. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit for by the remission of all sins in the blood of Christ in Baptisme the actions are made good by the eternall redemption and the everlasting righteousnesse which few men understand for by an eternall redemption by Christs blood in Baptisme we have remission of all sins past present and to come for ever before the Throne of God though we cannot yet believe it and we have an everlasting righteousnesse given unto us freely which makes us righteous for ever before God Hence saith Calvin is to be noted that men cannot do well before they be made good and therefore Christ saith to the Pharisees O generation of Vipers how can you speak good things when your selves are evill i. not graffed in Christ by Baptisme and Faith in him For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh i. from the abundance of good or evill in the heart and in Luke 6. 44. for every tree is known by his fruit for it is not a good tree that bringeth forth evill fruit i. of sin before God neither an evill tree that bringeth forth good fruit signifying that the good tree cannot but bring forth good fruit and hereupon the trees of the Lord are said to be full of sap i. full of the Spirit of Christ which cause them to bring forth good fruit for the seed remaineth in him saith St. John for whosoever is born of God sinneth not for his seed remaineth in him neither can he sin because he is born of God i. though he do sin before men yet he cannot fall out of Christs blood and righteousnesse that he need a new sacrifice before God For with one sacrifice he is made perfect before God for ever Heb. 10. 14. For Davids blessed man is campared to the tree planted by the rivers of water in infancy yea into Jesus that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood 't is that Spirit that beareth witnesse and that Spirit is trtuh 1 John 5. 6. that bringeth forth fruit in due season for they that are planted in the House of God in their youth or infancy planted into Christ by Baptisme shall bring forth much fruit in their age for herein is my Father glorified that you bring forth much fruit and be made my Disciples And how shall any bring forth much fruit before God except the words of his mouth and the meditations of his heart and all the works of his hands be made acceptable unto God but through Christs work in Baptisme for we cannot make them good by all the devices that mans brain can imagine but Christ must make them all good by his blood and righteousnesse freely without any works of man and give us faith to believe it But how is any man made a good tree before God that were all such evill trees by Adam First as trees are made good before men by planting or graffing before they can bring forth good fruit before men so must all men be planted or graffed into Jesus Christ by Baptisme before they can bring forth good fruit before God this is plain Rom. 11. 17. and 24. and though some of the branches be broken off and thou being a wilde Olive tree wast graffed in for them and made partaker of the root and fatnesse of the Olive tree for if thou wast cut out of the Olive tree which was wilde by nature i. by Baptisme wast cut out of Adam and wast graffed contrary to nature in the right Olive tree how much more shall they which are by nature be graffed in their own Olive tree for if we be planted with him into the similitude of his death even so shall we be to the similitude of his resurrection Rom. 6. 5. And how is that that we are graffed or planted into the similitude of his death The Answer is in the 4th verse We are buried with him by baptisme into his death that as they buried a man in the Sepulchre of Elisha that when the man was down and touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood upon his feet 2 King 13. 21. so the elect that were dead in sins in trespasses when they are cast into the grave of Christ when they are down and touch the vertue of Christs death by Baptism they revive and stand upon their feet before God We are made good trees because we are made branches of the Vine Christ as John 15. 5. I am the Vine ye are the branches Adam and Christ are compared to two trees Adam a wilde Olive the root of all men by nature Christ a sweet Olive or a Vine the root of all men by grace that are graffed into Christ by baptisme he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing i. he that abideth by faith in Christ by baptisme he bringeth forth much fruit of righteousnesse before God but he that abideth not in Christ to bring forth good fruit but in such a dead faith that he bringeth forth sin he is cast forth as a branch i. unprofitable by the judgement of God and withereth in the assurance of salvation and men gather them and cast into the fire of Gods wrath and they burn as they that turn Jews Turks Heathens Papists Witches and Anabaptists all these are justly excommunicated out of the true Church of God and judged to be under wrath because they have denied or forsaken or forgotten their Baptisme into Christ Why because by Baptisme

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