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And
teacheth,
not
to
be
wea.
ry
of
manna.
The
kind
of
it.
Why
ferpents.
The
devill
fo
termcd,why.
Why
fiery
ferpents.
Brazen Serpent,a
type
of
C%ri
/1.
ll
witb
the
fcorpions
ofhis
Judgements.
3.
Beware
of
being
weary
of
manna.
Never
did
man complaine
of
plenty
of
manna,
but
was
juftlÿ flung
with
want
of
it.
Doe thou
complaine
Without
caul
,and
thou
(halt have
caufe
to
complaine. Ifrael
that
complairies
oftoo
much
manna,fhall
fhortly
change
their
note
and
cry
out
of
to
many
ferpents.
I
I.
The
kind
of
the difeafe. The
Lord
Pent
fiery
fer-
pents
tolling
them.
Where
t.
why
ferpents
?
2.
why
fiery
?
3.
why
flinging
?
I.
This
difeafe
by
ferpents lively refembles
ourdif-
eafe
of
foule,
which is
no
other then the
fiery
fling
of
the
e/dferpent,which
is
the
devih,Rev.I
z.9. Our fpiritu-
all difeafe is hence
noted
to
come
from
that
old ferpent
at
firfl.
Now
ratan
is
aptly
compared
to
a
ferpent
in
five
refpefts
:
Firft, becaufe he covered himfelfe
with
a
fer-
pent,when
he firrt flung and
deceived
mankind. Second-
ly,
he
is
more
fubtle
then
any
ferpent
;
crafty
to
infinuate
and
deceive,
2
Cori
1.3.14. Thirdly,as
a
ferpent
dwels
and lies
among
thornes,
bullies,
bryars,
and
feeds upon
du
l:fo
the devill
raignes in the
thickets
and
bullies
of
worldly
cares
and
lusts,
and
feeds upon
worldlings
ex-
ercifing his
chiefe
power
againft
them.
Fourthly,
as
a
ferpent
carts
out
of
his
mouth venirne
and poyfon
:
fo
the devill
earls
out nothing but virulent
words
again
f{
God
and
his
Saints,
and
fpewes out
after
the
Church
a
flood
of
poyfon to
drowne
her.
How
bee
blafphemed
lob, how
he
is
the
acculer
of
the
brethren,
how
of
the
head
Chrift
himfelfe, the Scripture declares. riFtly,
as a
ferpent
is
curled
above
all
beads,
fò
is
the
devill.
The
firft
curled
creature
in
the
world
was
this ferpent
and
hath ever
fence
remained
the curfed
head
of
all
curled
rebells and
wicked
ones,
to
whole
curlody
and
con-
demnation
they
!hall
all
be
gathered
in
the
1aí}
day.../Wat.
2.4I
.goe
ye
curled, &c.
..
Why
called
fiery
ferpents
?
Ánfw.
I.
From
their