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J. Rainold argumenteth from Hezekiah’s breaking down of the brazen serpent, to the plucking down of the sign of the cross. 2. Why saith he that the brazen serpent, in the time it was abolished, had no use?
Yea, Joseph Hall himself, doth herein give testimony unto us, for upon Hezekiah’s pulling down of the brazen serpent, because of the idolatrous abuse of it, thus he noteth: “God commanded the raising of it, God commanded the abolishing of it. Sect. 8. 8.
I am the rather satisfied, because there is nothing there mentioned of the conversion of the high priest, or of the chief priests, the heads of the twenty-four orders which were upon the council, and had condemned Christ: the place cannot be understood but of a multitude of common or inferior priests, even as, by proportion, in Hezekiah’s reformation, the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests, 2 Chron. xxix. 34.
And for the invasion of Scotland by such an enemy after a reformation, is it any new thing? May we not say, that which is hath been? Did not Sennacherib invade Judah after Hezekiah’s reformation? 2 Chron. xxxii. 1.
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