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Brazen
Serpent,
4 type
of
chri1.
\
from
God,
the
like
experience
of
God. Never
any
fed
and
feafled
with
fo
many
miracles
as
it were
in
ordina-
ry.
They
have
water
following
them every
where
out
fi
of
a
rock.
They
have bread
from heaven,delicate
even
to
a
miracle
;
but
this
Angels
food
is
too light,and
no
bread
.
will
ferve
them but
from earth.
God
gave
them
abun-
dance
of
it
for
the gathering
;
he rained it
mot/
bounti-
fully
round about
their
tents
:
but
their
urlthankfull
fouls
loathe it,and
tread
it
under foot.And therefore riling up
againfi
God
and
tempting him
they were deflroyed
of
Serpents.
i
.Cor.
o.9.
Note
here
by
the way
s.
The
juflice
ofGod.
Hee
Which
leadeth
that
brought
Manna
from heaven
to
feed them,for
con
-
to
Goes
juilice.
tempt
of
his grace
now brings ferpents
out
of
the earth
to
revenge and deffroy them.
Rom.
z.
4.5.
The
defpifng
of
Gods bountàfulneJ
e,treafureth up
wrath.
See
the fame
Juice
on
our
felves.
How
lightly
did
wee
in
our firfl
parents
regard that upheaped
meafure
of
bounty
and
grace
conferred
by
God
in
our
Creation
and
innocency
?
And
how
jufily
were we
flung
to
death
by
the old
fer-
pent
for
it
?
The
unthankfull
perfon
is
the
greatefi rob-
ber
that
is.
2. See
the
equity
of
this juflice on the
And
the
equity
Ifraclites.
They
not contented
to
murmur
againfi
the
of
it
Lord,
,
fet
all()
upon
c
lofes
and Aaron his fervants,
Why
hove
ye
6roetgbt
to
into
the
v
ilderne
fe
to
die?
Now their
punishment
is
anfwerable to their
time.
They tranf-
greffe in
hot
and
fiery
tongues,
and
are
puni flied by
bet
and fiery flings.
Venemous
words
againfi
God
and his
fervants
are
revenged
by
the mouthes
of
poyfoned and
venemous ferpents.
Doe thou
at
thy perill
fling
God
and
his fervants
with bitter
words,
God
will
have
fome
ferpent or
other to
fling
thee.
I am
out
of
doubt that
many
great
plagues
have lingred
and
doe,
amongfl us
in'
this land for the
poyfoned and reviling
fpeeches
cafe
i
againft
God
and
his fervants
every
where.
We
fling
his
holy profeffion
and
fervants inceffantly, and he
!kings
us
with