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Serpent,
a
type
of
Chrill.
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of'
{inners
to
all
eternity.
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a
fweet
Sermon
cloth
this
one type
centaine
of
the
whole
fumtne and
marrow
of
the
Got-
,
peal
?
what
a
pregnant
tetimony
and
vaticinie
is
it
alone
1
of the
death
and pa±ion
of
jefiis Chriff,as alíó
ofthe
ver-
tue
and
merit
ofthe
fame? and
confequently
what
a
prop
and
{fay
of
our
faith
,
?
in
what
a
whofegname alone
wee
can
us
to
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fav
ec
?
Seri.
3.
I.
Note
What
weake
,
unlikely
,
and
contrary
meanes
the Lord
ufeth,
to
effea
great
things
for his
Church,
and
in
his
Church.
Was
there
any
fence
or rat-
.1
fon
to
be
conceived
in
all
this
couniell
and
ordinance
of
God
in
healing thus his
eople
? i .
Could
a
Serpent
of
brafîe,a lhape only
more
Neale
then
hurt
l
them
?and
fiery
fo
a
dead
Serpent
prevaile
againff
many
and
im
Serpents
?
3.
Shall
not
this
(lope
to
the
wound
Ser-
pent
be
fo
much
as
touched
or app
y
but the
fight
of
it
onely
inconceivable
is
this ttolhumane
really
infliaed
?
How
reafon
which perhaps
would
h
count it
foolifh
he
might
by
manyother
ridi-
culous
?
But the Lord
(thoug
more mighty
and
likely
meanes)will
by no
other
meanes
of
%ft
their
deliverance.
ooved
themt;g
if
not
that,
he
could
as eafily
haor
hee
ve
have
hindiTedf
mfame
poy
fá
i
hha
e;
made
a
might
powerfully
remedy
:
but
he
choofCth
moft unlikely
meanes.
Why
d
th
the Lord thus
?
et/itfre.
For three
reaCons:
i.
Hee
will
have his
people
Tooke
for
helpe
del
é
ásnwhence no
helpe
can
be
deal
in
Each
meanes
t
p
expeaed
but
onely
divine.
er
ireane
revaile
agate {}living
world
cannot make
a
dead
4
p
ferpents,
3"
Obfervation
I.
God
helps
his
people
by
weak,unhkely,
and contrary
meanes.
And
why
he
Both fo.