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A77504	The mystical brasen serpent: with the magnetical vertue thereof. or, Christ exalted upon the cross, with the blessed end and fruit of that his exaltation, in drawing the elect world to himself, to believe on Him, and to be saved by Him. In two treatises, from John 3. 14, 15. 12. 32. Whereunto is added A treatise of the saints joint-membership each with other. As they were delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the gospel, and preacher to that incorporation. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. July 30. 1652.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4719; Thomason E1249_1; ESTC R208891	155,986	284

An. All men saith the Text. The Latine Translation hath it All things All things Omnia A reading which Augustine retaineth and contendeth for And Beza tells us that he findes one Greek copy and that an ancient one Non dixit omnes sed omnia Hoc utique non ad universitatem hominum retulit sed ad creatura integritatem i. e. spiritum animam corpus c. August Totos corpore animo faciam mihi servire Aretius ad Text. Utrumque ad se trahit ut salivt utrumque Ferus ad loc Phil. 2.6 All men 1 Tim. 2.5 The word All explained allowing it reading the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all things Shall we so take it how shall we understand it Why Christ draweth all things that is say some not onely the souls but the bodies of men the one here the other hereafter drawing both to himselfe the one in his Kingdome of Grace the other in his Kingdome of Glory Others more fully Christ draweth all things to himselfe not onely men but other creatures How why in respect of that universall Authority and Soveraignty which he hath over them being lift up viz. from the Cross to the Crown he hath all Power given unto him and not onely over all Men but over Angells Devills and all other creatures all which how the knee to him yeelding to him either a voluntary or involuntary subjection and obedience But to let that pass The Greek Copies generally read the word as our Translation renders it not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not All things but All men for their sakes it was that Christ took upon him the Office of Mediatorship he is the Mediator betwixt God and Men and upon them he excerciseth a spirituall government in drawing them to himselfe and this power he exerciseth upon all he draweth all men Qu. What are all men drawn by Christ unto Christ An. For Answer I find the word All here diversly expounded Some in the first place taking it universally for all men whatever All drawn to Christ how Potest hic tractus non solum de gratiâ quâ Electi trahuntur sed etiam de potestate quâ reprobi quoque velint nolint coguntur Christo subesse Omnes enim five boni sive mali ab ipso secundum merita sua judicandi sunt c. Ferus ad loc whether Elect or Reprobate good or bad both these are drawn by Christ unto Christ The one by the cords of his grace and mercy the other of his power and justice the one drawn to him as to a Saviour to believe on him to be saved by him the other drawn before him as a Judge brought to his Tribunall there to receive according to their demerits Thus shall all wicked men be drawn by Christ and to him A truth but I suppose not here intended The drawing here spoken of is by way of grace and mercy But how doth Christ thus draw all men 2. Why this he doth say others in the second place by offering himself to all offering grace and mercy life and salvation to all upon the condition of believing 2. Christ offered to all Omnes vocat omnibus salutem offert Ferus Mat. 23. True such an offer Christ maketh unto all all those whom he sendeth the Gospell to And so he may be said to draw all men calling inviting them to come unto him so did he draw Jerusalem in the dayes of his flesh O Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thee And thus he draweth all those that are within the pale of the Church the sound of the Gospell Muscul ad loc Ferus ad loc I dare not say with some Quantum in se est trahit that as much as in him lieth he draweth all men no I know that if Christ put forth his power he can overpower the soule of the most obstinate and rebellious sinner and cause him to come in and that willingly Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy powers Psal 110. Psa 110.3 When Christ puts forth the arm of his power accompanying his Word with his Spirit for that is the day of Christs power then shall his call be effectuall all that are so called shall come to him and that willingly Isa 65.2 Pro omnibus in cruce pependit omnes quantum in se est expansis ad se brachiis veluti trahit Musc ad loc Mat. 28.19 Mark 16.15 Thus Christ doth not draw all men yet outwardly he doth offering himselfe alike to all So he did upon the Cross where his arms were extended and spread abroad as inviting all willing and ready to receive and imbrace all that should come to him There behold the Son of man lift up and drawing all men unto him this he doth more clearly in the preaching of the Gospell which he requireth to be published to all Nations to every creature under heaven There he makes knowne himself offers himselfe to all that will receive him inviting perswading them to come to him to believe on him Thus he draweth all in respect of an outward call that this drawing proveth ineffectuall to some to many to the most the fault is their own in that they doe not hearken to this call they will not follow him drawing but draw back Mat. 23.37 I would have gathered you but ye would not saith our Saviour to Jerusalem In the mean time Christ draweth them outwardly Thus he draweth all not that he intends to save all but that by this means he may draw forth his Elect out of all and bring them home to himself even as the Fisherman the similitude illustrates it well in drawing of his net his drag he draweth all that cometh within the compass of it not onely good fish but weeds and stones and mud and wherefore doth he this why it is for the good fishes sake that what is good he may save Mat. 13.47 Even thus is it with Christ's Drag-net the preaching of the Gospell The Kingdome of Heaven is like unto a net saith our Saviour It draweth all that come within the reach and compasse of it Christ offering grace and mercy alike to all But wherefore this why it is for the Elects sake that Christ may save those which are his by that means singling and drawing them out of the world and bringing them effectually home to himselfe He draweth all that he may save some draws all outwardly by his word that by his Spirit accompanying his word he may draw his Elect out of all making that his drawing effectuall to them to all of them Thus Christ drawes all men A truth but not the whole truth here intended The drawing which our Saviour here speaketh of I look upon it as an inward and effectuall work a drawing and bringing of men home unto himselfe to believe on him Enquire yet further then How may Christ be said thus to draw

draw men against their wills Matth. 23.37 Answ True he is able to do it but he will not where the offers of Grace are rejected and slighted Christ will not put forth this his effectual power See the truth of it in Jerusalem Christ could have gathered them and brought them under the wings of his Grace and Mercy but they would not therefore he leaveth off to draw them giveth over the work The soul that rejecteth the offers of Grace and standeth it out against Christ what can it expect but that Christ should desist from drawing it Certainly as Christ will never bring a man to himself against his will Gen. 6.3 so his Spirit shall not ever strive with men for a time it may which yet is wonderfull mercy wonderful mercy it should knock at all but much more that being repelled and resisted it should continue knocking but it will not ever do it To draw back is the next way to provoke Christ to give over drawing then which what can be more pernicious and destructive to the soul They who draw back draw back to perdition O take we heed that none of us be found in that number Heb. 10. ult We are not of them saith the Apostle who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul Happy thrice happy we may we be found such such as are drawn by Christ to believe on him submit unto him Being thus drawn to him we shall communicate with him in all his merits all his benefits in Grace here and Glory hereafter FINIS THE SAINTS Joint-Membership WITH The mutual Respects and Offices which upon the account thereof they owe each to other A Subject generally useful for all Christians in special for such as are under a particular and more Regular Church-Relation As it was lately presented unto the Church of God at Great Yarmouth By JOHN BRINSLEY Minister of the Gospel there 1 Joh. 3.18 My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth LONDON Printed for Ralph Smith 1653. TO THE CHURCH AND CHURCHES of CHRIST in Old ENGLAND With all the Living Members of the same Especially Those in the Town of GREAT YARMOUTH Grace and Peace CHRISTIANS LET not the first word in this Inscription offend any of you They who familiarly denominate the Ocean from that Coast which it lieth upon and passeth by calling it the Brittish or Irish Sea c. shall not need to stumble at the like language being applyed to the Church Nor yet that word which you shall frequently meet with in the body of the Treatise where I call the Church under what-ever consideration looked upon a Mysticall Body I am not ignorant that that Phrase is commonly and properly given to the Church as Invisible but in as much as that Division of Visible and Invisible is but of severall Affections and Modes belonging to the same Subject and that the one of these is so involved and inwrapped within the other as that they cannot be actually severed I have therefore indifferently I hope without any just offence applyed it to either This Apologie being premised let me now crave acceptance of what I here present to you all of you every of you whom from my soul I wish I could as easily joyn together in reall Affection as here I have done in a verball compellation and Dedication this it hitherto hath been now is and so long as I am shall be my desire and endeavour in order thereunto it is that I have heretofore adventured abroad some small Tracts tending to the prevention or removall of what might impede or obstruct such a conjunction And upon the same errand I now send this after them wherein I have endeavored to mind all the Members of the Mysticall Body of such respects Affections and Offices as by vertue of their Joint-Membership they owe each to other a Subject generally usefull to all who professe and would approve themselves Christians more specially to such as are under a particular and more regular Church Relation A priviledge which I cordially wish for all in this nation that want it Truth is what cannot be denyed or excused the stones in our Ecclesiasticall buildings as they have done so yet generally they lye too loose not cemented as they ought to be Not that I look upon the formality of an explicite Covenant as essentiall to a constituted Church I shall not dare upon so slight a ground to unchurch the Churches which have been and are in this Nation and elsewhere yet somewhat I conceive should be done for the distinguishing of the Members of one Congregation from another besides their bare habitation within the compasse of a perambulation line or yet then an ordinary attendance upon Ordinances in such a place Surely besides duties of Piety towards God there are also duties of Charity which Christians are bound to performe as to all their Brethren where-ever so in speciall to those of the same particular Society with them What these and those are and how to bee discharged I have indeavoured here to set forth Herein beginning so Providence hath ordered it where my Reverend Brother in a Sermon Mr. Marshal's Sermon at the Spittle on Easter Munday April 1652. lately preached and published upon the same Subject and Text which came to my hand the day before I finished this left What I here hold forth I desire may not onely bee read but regarded and practised And that as by others so in speciall by you among whom Providence hath cast my lot and to whom under God I have devoted and dedicated my selfe and labours To you it cannot without great ingratitude bee either denyed or concealed God hath beene good and gracious in the midst of all those late Changes which have passed over the heads of this and the Neighbour Nations Not suffering the sword to enter within your walls as it hath done many others in an Hostile way not giving you wholly for a spoile whether to Domestick plunderers or forraigne Robbers but yet reserving to you some competent remainder of a Temporall Subsistence And whilest he hath remembred the outward man he hath not beene unmindfull of the inward having vouchsafed to you the liberty and enjoyment of some Ordinances requisite to the well being of a Church and comfortable subsistence of a Christian which many other Congregations in this Nation desire but want What remains then but that you should now make some returnes answerable to these receipts stirring up your selves to goe before others as in duties of Piety towards that God who hath thus put a difference betwixt you and them so in all offices of true Christian Love each to other Of this later I have lately minded you by word and now doe it againe by writing that so you may bee able after my decease which how nigh it may bee he above knoweth in whose hand my times are to have these things alwayes

The MYSTICAL BRASEN SERPENT WITH The Magnetical Vertue thereof OR CHRIST exalted upon the CROSS WITH The blessed End and Fruit of that his Exaltation in drawing the Elect world to Himself to believe on Him and to be saved by Him In two Treatises from John 3.14 15. John 12.32 Whereunto is added A TREATISE of the Saints JOINT-MEMBERSHIP each with other As they were delivered to the Church of God at Great YARMOUTH By JOHN BRINSLEY Minister of the Gospel and Preacher to that Incorporation Imprimatur Edm. Calamy July 30. 1652. 1 COR. 2.2 I determined not to know any thing among you saving Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 COR. 1.18 For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishnesse but unto us which are saved the power of God LONDON Printed by Thomas Maxey for Ralph Smith at the Bible in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1653. To The truely Honourable The LADY FRANCIS HOBART Grace and Peace Madam I Plead no excuse for the homelinesse of this present Whatever the Workmanship be sure I am the matter is such as shall find acceptance at your Ladyships hands I question not but your Honour hath often read of what esteem the Typicall Brasen Serpent was with the Israelites 2 King 18.4 even then when it was out of date a bare Nehushtan no more worth then what the metall weighed And I presume you have as often heard what honour at least the ignoranter sort of the Romish perswasion are wont to give to the Crucifixes of their own making Both of them superstitiously and idolatrously yeilding that respect to the shadow which is appropriate to the substance This it is which I here present to your Honours view The Mystical Brasen Serpent the Reall Crucifix Christ himselfe exalted upon the Crosse Of whose Magneticall Vertue I doubt not but your precious soule hath already had so much experience as that you earnestly desire to feele more of it In this way if these my poor labors may contribute ought either to your selfe or any other I shall blesse that God who hath made use of me as his Instrument in so honourable a service In the hope and confidence hereof I shall put them into your Ladyships hand and rest Great Yarmouth June 24. 1642. Ready further to serve Your Honour in all Christian Offices JOHN BRINSLEY An Alphabeticall Table A. ADversaries not to be feared 140. Affections towards Christ evidencing mans drawing to him 183 Christ offered to All how and why 146 Attractive vertue in Christ to be sought after 188 B. BEnefit of Christs death extending to all Beleevers 111 Beleeving on Christ the onely means to receive benefit from him 73 Discouragements in Beleeving answered 115 Blindnesse naturall to all men 153 Brasen Serpent both a medicine and a mystery 3 Brasen Serpent a lively and convincing Type of Jesus Christ 5 Brasen Serpent resembling Christ in five particulars 16 Brasen Serpent to be looked up unto 96 C. Carnall persons not drawn to Christ 181 Christ a mighty Saviour 17 Christ like unto men and sinfull men yet without sin 18 Christ crucified the onely Sole-Remedy 51 Christ a Saviour by his Fathers Ordination 22 Christ to be looked up unto and how 124 Motives to come unto Christ 71 Discouragements in coming unto Christ answered 115 Motives to look up unto Christ 97 Strength of Corruption no just discouragement in coming to Christ 122 Conversion to be ascribed unto Christ 161 Common work of the Spirit not to be rested in 191 Crosse of Christ a memoriall of mans sin and misery 21 Crosse of Christ the way to his Crown 27 The Crosse an Exaltation to Christ 28 Christ crucified the onely Saviour 62 Cure of the Soul to be locked after 48 D. Darknesse mans naturall estate 30 Death passed upon all 115 Death of Christ necessary in a threefold respect 45 Death of Christ not dubious 132 Drawing of men by Christ to Christ 143 150 Drawing a fruit of Christs death 134 Men drawn to Christ as a Saviour and Lord 169 God the Father draweth men to Christ how 144 All men and all things drawn to Christ how 145 Drawing what it importeth 152 Whence Christ draweth men 164 Men drawn out of themselves how 168 Evidences of men not drawn to Christ 179 Evidences of men drawn to Christ 183 Drawing to Christ a ground of comfort 187 Outward Drawing not to be rested in 190 Drawing back to be taken heed of 163. 191 E. Elect ones drawn to Christ 149 Enemies still infesting Beleevers 53 Enemies of Christ disappointed 135 136 Christ exalted upon the Crosse 28 F. Faithfulnesse of Christ in his obedience 56 Faith justifying and saving what 75 Faiths object and act in justifying 79 Faith how it healeth and saveth 80 Faith and Christ as the Ring and the Bloodstone 92 Faith the only Instrument in healing the soule 93. 101 Weaknesse of Faith no just discouragement 123 H. Christ Healing his people how 58 I. Ignorant persons not drawn to Christ 179 Impediments in coming to Christ 119 Mans naturall Impotency 154 Weak Instrument effecting great works 174 God blesseth all and only his own Institutions 10 Intercession of Christ effectuall 57 Inveterate sins not hindering benefit by Christ 119 Civil Justiciaries not drawn to Christ 182 L. Lamenesse naturall to all men 155 Christ Lift up four wayes 25 Lifting up of the Brasen Serpent shadowing the death of Christ in five particulars 29 Lifting up of Christ drawing men to him 173 Life eternall what 109 Life all men deprived of 44 M. Mans Misery the occasion of Gods Mercy in sending his Son 20 Man 's naturall Misery described 33 Gods Mercy in providing a Remedy 38 Ministers of God to be enquired of for Soul-cures 49 N. Natures power in the work of Conversion decayed 160 O. God not tied to costly Ordinances 7 P. Penitent sinners only capable of benefit by Christ 113 The Estate of Nature a Perishing Condition 43 Whether men Perish in death 105 No Perishing to Beleevers 107 Profane persons not drawn to Christ 180 R. Man Repenting God Repents 9 Refusing of Christ a just Condemnation 71 Relapses dangerous not desperate 120 Reluctancy against receiving of Christ with the grounds thereof 158 159 S. Salvation to be sought onely in Christ 63 Satan resembled by a Serpent in three particulars 34 Satan hindering men from coming unto Christ how 156 Men drawn from under the power of Satan how 156 Christ a Saviour to lost mankind 152 How Christ cometh to be a Saviour 154 Christ the onely Saviour 159 Ministers how called Saviours 161 How men save themselves ibid. Christ a perfect Saviour 68 Sense of misery a preparative for mercy 46 The Serpent the Instrument of mans misery 45 Shadowes made use of by God to work reall effects 8 Great Sins great punishments 9 Discouragements from magnitude or multitude of Sins answered 116 117 Son of man the phrase opened being given to Christ what it imports 12 14 Spirit of Christ drawing men to