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Brazen Serpent,
a
type
of
Orig.
(Ephef.
6.
i
6..)
for
three
reafons.
i
.
From the
man
-
ner
and
cuflome
of
fouldiers
in
times
paf}
which
call:
poifoned darts,
the
poifon
of
which
inflamed the
woun-
ded
bodies, and made the
wounds
incurable.
As
now
many
out
of
deíperate
malice poifon
their
weapons
and
bullets
to
make fure
with
their
enemy
:
So
loth
Satan
by
all
meanes
poifon
his
darts
to
(peed
the Chrif}ians
foule.
z.
Becaufe
as
fiery
darts they inflame
and
kin-
dle
in
the heart
all
manner
of
burning
luf
}s
and finnes,
one
of
them being
but
as
a
fparke or firebrand to
kindle
another.
3.
Becaufe
they leave
for moft part
a
caute-
rized
and
feared confcienee behind
them,
as
if
they
were
burnt
with
an
hot iron, which
makes the
firmer
flung
fenílefi'e
of
his
wound. Whence
is
another miferabïe
difference
hetweene
the
flung
lfraelite,
and
the
flung
finner.
The former
was alwayes
felt
with
griefe and
paine
:
but
this often
not
felt, and fo
more defperate.
Thirdly,the
effect
of
this
flinging was
death
in
many.
And
fò
the
effe
a
of
fanne
is
death
in
all.
The flung Iíra-
elite
had
death
in
his
bofome,
and no
other could
be ex-
peeled
:
fo
the guilty
firmer
is
flung
to
death.
In
his
na-
ture
is
every
man
the
Conne
of
death, and
can
expel
nothing
but death every
moment.
And
as
the
flung
per
-
fon
in
the
wilderneffe had
no
meanes
in
himfelfe
nor
from others,to
avoid
either
the ferpent
or
death
from
it,
till
God
appointed them the
brazen
ferpent
:
So
the
pnore (inner
was
deflitute
of
all
helpe in himfelfe and
others,
till
the
Lord
appointed
jefu.s
Chrifl
the promi-
Ced
feed, to
breake
the
ferpents head. There
liven
no
name
elfe, whereby
msft
be
faved,A
.g.
t
2.
Firfl note
hence,
how
deceitful) are
the
p!eafiires
of
finne.
It
is
as
a
fweet
poifon
:
Io6 20.1
2.
fweet
in
the
mouth,but
poifon
in
the bowels.
What
wife
man
would
drink
a
draught
ofpoifon
for
the
fweet
tafle
of
it
?
Wic-
ked
men
hold
fanne as
a
fweet
morfell
:
but
Cower fauce
fdllowes
it.
Secondly;
3
The
rnortóiI
effed
of
it.
b/'ervgtio4
..
: