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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19485	The brazen serpent: or, the copie of a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Decemb. 31. 1620. By Iohn Andrevves, priest and preacher of the VVord of God at Saint Iames Clerkenwell in Middlesex	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 591; ESTC S122344	23,076	64

Brazen Serpent gaue them but health and life of Body only and that for a time but Christ giueth eternall Health eternall Life to Body and Soule both This Serpent was but the meanes and instrument of that life which God by it gaue to such as were Serpent-bitten but Christ is the Author the cause the very Originall of eternall Life And as it was not possible for the Israelites being once stung euer to be cured except they did looke vp to the Brazen Serpent So is it not possible for any man since the stinging of Adam by the Old Serpent in the beginning of the World to be saued but by IESVS CHRIST and him crucified Fourthly this Brazē Serpent was but one and set vp by Moses that Many Thousands of the people that were stung by thousand other Serpents might recouer health and all such as were either before or behind it on the right hand or on the left if they did but turne towards it and behold it were healed So Christ is but one Sauiour one Mediatour yet His death is sufficient to take away the venome and smart of all our sinnes and not ours only but of the whole World nay of a Million of Worlds If they would but fixe their Eye vpon him and beleeue in him for Christ is the end of the Law to Righteousnesse to euery one that beleeueth Rom. 10. 4. a Sauiour he was to such as beleeued that He would be sacrificed for them long before he was borne of the Virgin as to Adam to Noah to Abraham and Dauid For Abraham reioyced to see my Day saith Christ and he saw it and was glad He saw it by the light of Faith 1500. yeeres before Christ manifested himselfe in the Flesh For as Leo saith Refudit se in aetates praeteritas mysterium illud tam illis qui praecesserunt vtile quàm nobis qui sequimur The Mystery of our Redemption by the death of Christ as the Sunne at one instant disperseth his beams ouer the whole Horizon from East to West did shoote it selfe to all Ages past present and to come For He was the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the World Reu. 13. 8. as beneficiall to such as dyed before his comming if they looked towards him as to vs that liue after him for as it is in Mat. 21. 9. All that went before him and they that followed after cryed Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid That is they expected Saluation from Iesus Christ and by him only Neither from any Man were that man Moses nor from the workes of the Law but only from the Blood of the MESSIAS As these Israelites when they were bitten by the Serpents although they roared and cryed to one another yet not any was able to heale or helpe either himselfe or any other No not Moses but God only by the Brazen Serpent Fifthly I beseech you consider the meanes which God made choice of to giue life to the Children of Israel It was a Serpent as it were dead for it had no life in it Being but a piece of shining Brasse And some Naturalists affirme that if r Hemingius one be poysoned with the sting or venome of a Serpent the very looking on shining Brasse is present death to him In which the power of the miracle doth more plainely discouer it selfe Because God made that which of it selfe is the cause of Death to become to such as vsed it according to his Ordinance a cause of Life and Health Working one Contrary out of another giuing Life by Death So it is in Christ For by his death all true beleeuers are translated from Death to Life Which is so strange a wonder that it cannot sinke into many mens heads how it should euer bee brought to passe that Christ his death should procure and conuay euerlasting Life to vs. When Christ tels the Iewes Iohn 12. 32. that Hee must be lifted vp that is hanged on the Crosse and so dye and giue his Life for the life of the World They could not be perswaded that if he were the right Christ the Sauiour of the World that hee should die at all but liue for euer Therefore verse 34. The People answered him We haue heard in our Law that Christ bideth for euer then how dost thou say that he must be lifted vp that is hanged on the Tree and suffer death vpon the Crosse And therefore 1. Cor. 1. 23. Christ crucified that is hope of euerlasting life by such a one as like a notorious malefactor suffered death vpon the Gallowes is said to the Iewes to be a stumbling block and to the Gentiles foolishnesse So it pleaseth carnall men to deeme of the Mysteries of our Saluatiō because they are aboue their shallow Reason they account them meere foolishnesse But the Wisedome of God in this to such as are enlightened with super-naturall light appeareth to be the greatest and the very foolishnesse of God is wiser then the greatest wisedome of Men and the weakenesse of God is stronger then Men 1. Cor. 1. 25. But to make both his Wisedome and power knowne vnto Men it hath pleased God many times to bring one contrary out of another As at the first he made Heauen and Earth and all things else of what of Nothing only by the power of his Word And what more contrary to all things which haue a Being then nothing which hath no Being at all Whence was the order the Beautie the wel-composed frame of the Vniuersall World fashioned was it not out of an empty rude vnshapen and indigested lump or Chaos Did not Hee bring light out of Darknesse and what more contrary to Light then Darkenesse So Christ by the very shame of the Crosse purchased to vs eternall Glory and by his Death giueth vs redemption from eternall death and euerlasting Life to all true members of his mysticall Body And this must needes be so For considering that Christ is perfect God who made all the World and that with a word of his mouth being able if he pleased with one word to make a thousand Worlds as great as this Considering I say that He Christ IESVS the most high God did take vpon him as to morrow the day of his Circumcision to be ſ Gal. 5. 3. our Suretie to pay to his Father our Debt of death Temporall and Eternall He being more worth then all the Spirits of Men and Angels in a thousand Worlds because he is the Maker of them all His death must needs be more satisfactorie to Gods iustice and wrath then if all the Men and Angels in Heauen and Earth should for mans sins haue suffred all the endlesse and Numberlesse torments of Hell for euer and euer and if the Surety suffer death and pay the debt is it not reason that the principall go quit and free and haue his life spared Wherfore in Ioh. 18. 7. when the Officers came to apprehend Christ he asketh Whom seeke yee and they said Iesus of Nazareth