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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
owns
foule
;
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
dead
men
while
they
live,
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
finne
as
the wages
on the
worke;
and hell upon
death that
comes before
repen-
tance.
Fourthly,
A
foole
hee
is
that
makes
a
mocke
offinne.
1
Who
would
play
with
a
deadly
ferpent,
or
make
a
jeft
i
of
his
owne
death?
or drink
up
the
poifon
of
a
ferpent
in
merriment
?
or
cafr
darts
&
firebrands
about
him
to
burne
himfelfe and others, and
fay,
Am
I
not
in fport
?
See
Troy. 26.18
and
I
o.
2
3.
and
14.9.
Oh
that wee
could difcerne our
wounds,
as
fenfibly
as
we
are
certain
ly
flung
I
It
would
make
ns
renne
to
Ged,
and
get
Me-
tes
to
goe
to
God
for
us,
and pray
that thefe ferpents
and
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
fiche
af.
ter
meanes 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,
which
was
God
himfelfe,
who
deviled it
and pre
-
fcribed it
to
tlefes,for
God
will
Pave
onely in
his
owne
X
.z
meanes.
The
remedy
of
that
difcafe.
I.
God
appoints
the meanes
of
health to
foule
and body.