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Brazen Serpent,
a
type
of
Chrí.
3.
The
laving
effeEt.
By Chrift
farte
mare
excellent.
jefus Chrift,
is
the
eye
of
faith,
which
is
the
eye
of
the
foule.
So
our
Saviour
Chrift
himfèlfe
expoundeth it
(L
h.3
.)
As
the brafen Serpent was
lift
up;
fo/hall thefon
of
?nail,
that
whofoever
beleeveth
in
him
&c. That
which
(
'[ofes
call's
looking on the
type,
Chrift
calls
beleeving
in himfelfe
the truth.
Which
if
the
Lord had not pur-
poled
to
expreffe,
he
could
as
eafily
have remooved
the
Serpents,
as
appointed
the
making
of
another
;
and
as
eafily
have
healed them
by his
word,as
by
this figne: but
hereby affords
them
a
double mercy and
cure,
or
e
of'the
body
by
the
figne,
another
of
their
foules by
the
thing
and
truth
thereby
fionify
ed.
II
F.
From
this
application followes afaving
effe
The Ifraelite
by
looking lived,
and
received
prefent
cafe,
with
freedome
from paine
and
p
eyfon
:
So
the
beleever
looking
on
Chrifi
by
the
eye
offaith,
hath
an
heavenly
life
reftored;
prefent eafe from the
paine
ofa
guilty
and
accufing
canfcìence
;
freedome from
the poyfon offinne
both
the guilt
and ffaine
of
it.
But
herein
the
truth
is
advanced above the
type.
.
That
brazen
Serpent
had
not
power
in
it
feu
e
to
cure;
this bath power
in it
felfe..
2.
Whereas
they
were cured
to
dye againe;beleevers attaine
a
found
cure,
never
to
dye
more,
¡oh.
j
[.26.
3.
Whereas
that did not alwaies
re-
tain
e
the
verrue
of
curing,
our
brazen
Serpent
dull
ever
reraine
power
and
verme for the falvation ofbeleevers,
looking towards
him,to
the
end
of
the
world.
4.Wher
-.
as
this
brafen Serpent,
now
a
remedy
againft poyfon,
was
after
turned
to
poyfon
the
Ifraelires
in
Hezekiahs
time
;
which
made him
ftampe
it to powder:our
brazen
Serpent ever rernaineth
the foveráigne
and
healing
God;
as
unchangeable
in his goodneffe,
as
hee
is
in his
moft
holy
and
divine nature. s. That remained
a
great
while,
about
feaven
hundred
and
threefcore yearis,
be
t
af'rer
was
defaced and
def}r&
yed
:
Our brazen Serpent
can
never
bee
defaced or
def}royed,
but abides the
Sa-
,viour