Brazen Serpent, a type of Chrif1. Secondly,what little caufe we have to love our finnes: for that is to love our owne bane. Prov.8.3 5 . Hee that fìnneth again(' mee, hurteth his ownsfoule ; and all that hate mee, lote death. No thine but the more pleating, the more poifoning ; the more delicate,the more deadly. Sinne never 4o much difguifed, never the lea deadly. Thirdly, that (inners are but deadmenwhile theylive, r .Tim.5.6. An ifraelite flung was but a dead man : So although the reafonable foule in a finner makes him a man, yet the want of the Spirit of grace makes him a dead man. Death waits upon finneas the wages on the worke; and hell upon death that comes before repen- tance. Fourthly, A foole hee is that makes a mockeoffinne. 1 Whowould play with a deadly ferpent, or make a jeft i of his owne death? or drinkup the poifon of a ferpent in merriment ? or cafr darts & firebrands about him to burnehimfelfe and others, and fay, Am I not in fport ? See Troy. 26.18 and I o. 23. and 14.9. Oh that wee could difcerne our wounds, as fenfibly as we are certain ly flung I Itwouldmake ns renne toGed, andgetMe- tes togoe toGod for us, and pray that thefe ferpentsand painful' wounds might be removed. If wee law death As prefent and as ghaflly in our fins as Ifrael did in their flinging, we would haften our repentance, and ficheaf. termeanes of cure. Sert. I1. The remedy is, Frrft prefcribed, Nsim.2 r .8. second- ly applied, verf.9. Thirdly in the fame verfe is the ef- fea : they recovered and lived. So then in, the reme- dy are, r. ordination, z. application, 3. fanation, or cure. I. The appointing path, Firit the perfon appoin- ting, whichwasGod himfelfe, whodeviled it and pre- fcribed it totlefes,for God will Pave onely inhis owne X .z meanes. The remedy of that difcafe. I. God appoints the meanes of health tofoule and body.
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