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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

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

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

many shal rejoyce at his birth because he shall have a new birth for parents may have great joy and gladnesse at the new birth of their children for he shall be great before the Lord although the wicked world shall contemne him and say he hath a devil yet he shall be great for he shall be a Baptist They are the greatest before the Lord that preach most soundly of Baptisme Paul the greatest of the Apostles preached most of Baptisme Luther was famous for Baptisme and Calvin the fourth Angel and name any that ever was famous in the Church that was not sound in the faith of his baptisme for no Anabaptist nor any other shall be great before the Lord in his Church which is not sound in that point that do not thunder out the Law to men that may drive them to the faith of their Baptisme in Infancie He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mothers womb which is not so to be understood that all the elect do now receive the Holy Ghost in their mothers womb but that all the elect should receive the Holy Ghost in their mothers womb of the Church which is baptisme in their Infancie when their godly parents i. all the true Church pray for the holy Spirit to be given to their Infants For why should not the Lord give his holy Spirit to Infants at baptisme as well as to John And as Peter told the Jews Be baptized and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink i. he shall be no drunken Minister the Holy Ghost shall teach him sobriety And he shall convert many of the children of Israel unto the Lord God The Baptist and all that preach most soundly of Baptisme convert most to Christ I have observed that those men and that those Ministers that have preached the Law and Baptisme most soundly amongst men have converted most and the reason why so few are converted in these dayes because few preach the Law cleerly in the spirituall breach and Baptisme as Luther prophesied Baptisme after his time would be lost so there be few preach Baptisme cleerly to make the tree good and the fruit good for the tree is evill and the fruit evill by Adam And here is the rule to know all Sermons to be good or bad by converting or not if they make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill as it is Christs own rule Mat. 12. 33. This is the first main ground of a faithfull Minister to prove all his Doctrine and Sermons by if he misse this ground he cast out his net on the wrong side and catch no fish convert no souls though he labour all his life This is the right side that Christ bad Peter cast out the net on i. the net of the Gospel to make the tree good and the fruit good or the tree evill and the fruit evill and this is the reason why hearers get no assurance of salvation because they do follow such Preachers that make neither the tree good nor the fruit good nor the tree evill nor the fruit evill but partly good and partly bad We must do something to make our selves good before God which is the greatest abomination that Antichrist can set up against God to affirm that we can make our selves righteous in whole or in part as the Homily of our Church for then Christ died in vain Now seeing John the Baptist was fore-prophesied of by so many Prophets and by so many Apostles and by Christ himself that a greater then John have not sprung up among them that have been born of women that he was a burning and a shining candle and thus testified by an Angel from heaven Let us believe his baptisme was from Heaven let us know that those that are Baptists that preach most of Baptisme their doctrine is most heavenly and they shall convert most to the Lord for they point most to the Lamb of God that hath taken away the sins of the world who drew all his obedient hearers by preaching the Law from the sundry sorts of sects 1. to Baptisme and then shewed them Christ the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world Wherefore hearken to this Elias Repent and receive Christ the Lamb of God by Baptisme to take away your sins for so many as received him to them he hath given prerogative to become the sons of God so many as believe in his name which are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God So he that would draw all the sects and divisions of England into one he must first thunder out the Law and shew how cursed they are all because they have not taken Christs counsell Rev. 3. 18. Then he must bring them to the faith of their Baptisme he must teach them there is one God one Faith one Baptisme and he that does not gather with John and Christ too into Baptisme scatter and here is the cause of all the sects and divisions in all the Churches in Christendome for when men have lost Baptisme some will have justication from all eternity some from the crosse all born and unborn some in the womb some at faith some at conversion some at death and some after death and then they must go wash to get remission of sins Thus he that gathers not into Christ by Baptisme scattereth abroad for except I wash thee thou shalt have no part with me so except thou take thy part with Christ from thy Baptisme thou canst have no assurance of salvation John preached saying Repent for the kingdome of heaven is at hand this is not only to be understood that he preached nothing else but the summe of his doctrine was by the Law he shewed them what horrible sinners they were the generation of Vipers detest your sins and your own righteousnesse believe in the Messias he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire for all that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ for in our Baptisme we received remission of our sins in the death of Christ into which we were baptized and buried and in Christ we received everlasting righteousnesse in whom by baptisme we are raised and he preached the kingdome of heaven is hand because Baptisme was at hand for where Baptisme is truly preached there the kingdome of heaven is at hand Christ and his righteousnesse is at hand in Baptisme peace is at hand to them that believe their baptisme they have peace with God and assurance of salvation and all the sects and professors of England have no peace with God nor assurance of salvation but they that believe they have peace with God from their baptisme into Christ in infancy and joy in the Holy Ghost is at hand by Baptisme as the Eunuch found true and the Jaylor and

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