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Brazen
Serpent,
a
type
of
Ori/I.
._
r
ávxnedols
Z.
toTttpynQu
3.
Kingdome of
Antichrift,how
fit
for
deffru-
dion.
More
fpecially
2
The
f:23,
whom
the
Lord jball
confume
etnd
a6olifb
:
There
is,
both
a
cenfumption,and
an
extin-
lion
:
The former
wee
have
feene,
the
fècond
as
cer-
tainely remains in
¡hort
time
to
be
done,Rev.
i
9.zo,z r,
The
beali
and the
fal(è
Prophet
fhalbe taken, and
their
flelh made
meat
for
the
fovles
cf
the ayre.There
is
more
f}rength
in this
word
of
God,
then
in
all
Antichrif}ian
limbes
and captaines.
All
Babylon,
Ph_yfitians
(hall
not
i
beak
her,
for great
is
the Lord
who
will deflroy
her.
If
this
be
the time
it
¡hall
forward apace;ifdeferred,ror
for-
gotten.
3.
The
cau'è
in
hand
is
Gods
caufe,
againfl
a
King -
dome;
i,
contrary
to
Chrifis whole Kingdome;
z.
a
Kingdome
de1}inated
to
defiruchon
by
God;
3. a
King-
dome
againff
which Chrifiian
Princes
are called
to
fan
-
difie
their
fwords
,
and to
fire
her
,
and to retourne
double
according
to
die whores workes; 4.
a
Kingdome
in
which every
member
is an
high
blafphemer,
and
ought to dye,
no eye
pittying
them
;
5.
a
Kingdorne,
an
infinite
encroacher upon Chriffian
Kings
and
King
-
domes,
and
diflurber
of
all
their
common
and
publike
peace,by
claimes
to
all
Crowns,fcepters,lawes,fubjecti-
on:but
God
is
with
his
caufè,
and
therefore it
is
firong
enough.
4. The
caufe
is not
therefore
at
an
end,becaufe foy-
led
;
nor farther from
vitiory,
becaufe
the
parry feernes
weaker,and
the
meanes
incomparable,
Iudger
Zo,
(Erne(
had the
better
caufe
then
Benjamin,
and
more number
of
fouldiers
,
and
were prudent
and
expert
in
warre
as
it
appeares
byfome
firaragems fet
againfi
the enemie;
yet
was
foyled and
broken
twice
.becaufe
although
God
had
beene fought, yet not
fo
ferioufly
as
was fit.
1
fthe
Ifreel
ofGod
had
fought the Lord
fò
ferioufly by
falling,
pray_
er,
and
fooind
humiliation,
the powers
of
Antichrif}
could
not
prevaile. But
great are the
finnes
of
the'
Church,which
muff
be
corre6ted;arsd
God
will
be
more
1
earnefily