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ßrazenfSerpento
type
of
Ghrift
3°5
their
colour. Through
abundance
of
poifon
they had
a
Why
fiery
fhining
and
gliflring skinne, and
they
feemed
as
if
they
ferpents.
had
been made
of
fire.
A
refemblance
wee
have
in our
fnakes,that
fcerne
to
thine
and
fparkle
again{I
the
Sunne.
2.
From their
effea.
For
with
their
fling
they
infufed
fuck
poifon 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
after
a
fort
inflamed and
kindled
with
delire
of
revenge
of
the
Lords
wrongs
;
and
they
fo
fiercely affaulted
the Ifraelites,
as
if
a
raging
and
devouring
fire
had
feafed
upon
them,
which no
way
they
could
avoid.
Secondly,
that
in
their
punifh-
ment
they
might
bee
admonifhed,
both
what
a
fearefiill
fire
of
Gods wrath they
had
kindled
by
their
fin
againfl
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
imply
unto
Why
singing
Firfl,
that
finne is
the
fling
of
this
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
more
generali,
and
the
wounds
infinitely
more
mifchie-
vous
then were
thofe
of
the
fiery
ferpents.
For,
I.
They
Bung
a
few
Ifraelites, but
not
all
;
but this ferpent hath
flung
all
mankind,
none
excepted.
2.
They flung the
bodies
onely; but
thefe,foules
and
bodies
alto.
3
They
flung
one part
of
the body
;
this
fer
pent
all
parts,
and
whole
man. 4. They
to
a
temporali death,
this
to
an
eternal'.
Secondly,
to
imply
that
finne
is the
fling
of
a
fiery
fer-
pent.
i.
set
on fire
with
wrath
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.