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o
tambera.
Brazen
Serpent,
a
type
of
C
hrifi.
4lofer law
cannot cure
them
;
that
rather fharpens the
ring,
and
thralls
it
deeper into the
flefh
and
fpirit. He
direas
them
to
no
merits
or works
of
their
owne
to
cure
them;
for
their
merits brought
in
thofe
pcyfoned
Rings
among
them;but
he
fends
them quite out
of
thenm-
felves
to Gods
ordinance,
which
was
the
brafen
Ser-
pent.
Thom
art
never
in
the way
ofcure,till
thou
art fent
out
ofthy
felfe;
out
of
the
Law and
works
of
ir,
which
now
cannot juftifie
;
till thou comme(f
to
the
Evangeli-'
call
brazen
serpent,
there
is
no
hope
ofcure.
tks
the
If-
raelite
could never
be
cured
till
hee
acknowledged the
brazen
Serpent the
onely meanes
:
fo
no
more
canif
thou
f
till thou
acknowledge
J
E
s
u
s
C
H
R
i
s
T
the
onely
healing
God
;
and
that
there
is
no
other
name
in heaven
or
earth
to
be
Paved
by
but the
name
J
E
s
ti
s.
One)
Chaff,
onev
Chri
fl,
faid that Martyr
:
for
he
onely
can
give
a
perfect
righteoufiiefi'e
:
he onely
can
cover
our
im-
perfeetions
:
hee
onely
being
no
(inner,
could
conquer
finne:he onely
by
dying could conquer
death
:
he onely
by entring into
the
grave
could
fweeten
it :he onely by
fuflaining
the
forrowes
of
hell
could
(hut
hell for
all
be-
leevers.
Had
.Moles
fent the
Ifraelites any
whither
but
to
the
brazen
Serpent,he had deluded them,and they had
loft
all
their
labour.
Who
now
is
fo
void
of
judgement that
cannot dif-
cerne
whether
our religion or
the
Roman
be
the
ancient
and
true religion
of
Mofer and
the
people
of
God
If
a
man flung
with
the ferpent
come
to
us
for
counfell and
cure
as
they to
gofer;
we
fend
him
(as
Mores)
out
of
himfelfe to Chriff
onely, the
true
brazen
Serpent.
Our
Ì
doctrine
leads him
out
of
himfelfe,
out
of
his
owne
me-
rits,
out
of
externall
works
and
ceremonies unto
Chrift
who
is
our
peace,
and left
his
peace
unto beleevers.;
and
by
this
meanes
through Gods
bleffing
the patient
at-
f
tames
true
tranquillity
of
mind, and inward
peace
of
(cinfcicnce:
and
rejoyceth
with
an
unfpeakable
and
glo-
rious--