ßrazenfSerpento type ofGhrift 3°5 their colour. Through abundance ofpoifon they had a Why fiery fhining andgliflring skinne, and they feemed as if they ferpents. had been made of fire. A refemblance weehave in our fnakes,that fcerne to thine andfparkle again{I the Sunne. 2. From their effea. Forwith their fling they infufed fuckpoifon into the bodies of the Ifraelites, as flirred up in them an outragious heat and fire. Now thefe difeafes are moil painful', and fo tormentfiill as if a wild-fire were in the bowels, feeding upon the bones, marrow, and members. 3. From their end. Firft becaufè they were appointed by God, and aftera fort inflamed and kindled with delire of revengeof the Lords wrongs ; and they fo fiercely affaulted the Ifraelites, as if a raging and devouring fire had feafed upon them, which no way theycould avoid. Secondly, that in their punifh- ment theymight bee admonifhed, both what a fearefiill fireof Gods wrath theyhad kindled by their finagainfl themfelves; as alto that they had deferved a more feare- full fire in hell to feize upon their whole man everla- flingly. 3. Why flinging ferpents ? Anfw. To implyunto Why singing Firfl, that finne is the flingofthis old ferpent; even ferp:nts. a poifoned fling that bee bath thrufft into all mankind. But with this difference; in that this poifon is farre moregenerali, and the wounds infinitely more mifchie- vous then were thofeof the fiery ferpents. For, I. They Bung a few Ifraelites, but not all ; but this ferpent hath flungall mankind, noneexcepted. 2. They flung the bodies onely; but thefe,foules and bodies alto. 3 They flung one part of the body ; this ferpentall parts, and whole man. 4. They to a temporali death, this to an eternal'. Secondly, to imply that finne is the flingofa fiery fer- pent. i. set on fire withwrath and cruelty, and defire Temptations to poifon and deflroy us, Revd. 12.17. 2. Setting on called fiery us with fiery darts. For fo his temptations are called A ..,ates, why. X (Ephef.
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