['Ocik IY.• THE D E V I L A s E R p E N T. l1e harh d·c ne lurm, er died of Madner,. In this he is the very Image of the Devil, who·.is lo outrageous, .and filled with E nvy to Mankind, rhat he cares nor what Mif– chief he cloth, though it greatly heighrens his own Punifumenr in the End. There is an irreconcileable Enrrity between the ~erpenr and the Woman, .and between his Seed and her Seed. A Man naturally, by a kind of fecret InftinCl:, abhorreth the Sight of .a Serpent; and fo dorh the Serpent tile Sight ·of a Man. V. There is a certain fort of Serp"nrs, that if a Man look 'ftedfaftly upon them with one Eye, with a fingle Eye, they will run away from him : Such a Serpent is Satan ; f<>r tf a Chriftian face him with a fwgle J:<.ye, that is., look upon him with an Eye of Faith, it will refift him, and make him fly. N ' F E R E N C E S. f. FROM the W hole me may peroeive, .what the Nature of Sin is: Thefe evil Angels were glorious Creatures at firft, before they fell; but behold, what vile, curfed 'Creaturesand Monfters their departing from God, and Rebellion againft him, bath made them! I!. It may teach all Men to 'beware of the Devil, to watch againft him, to avoid Sin, and rhe Venom of Sin, as they would a Serpent. Ill. it may be of ufe to ftir up rhe Godly to Diligence and Watchfulnefs, &c. Be Jober, be vigilwt, &c. IV. It may teach us to blefs and praife God for Chrilt, in whom, through Faith, we get the Victory o;cer this terrible and crafty Enemy. Metaphors;
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