The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained

3. Christ was lifted up upon the Cross: The Pole was undoubtedly a Type of the Cross, and the lifting up of the Serpent on the Pole was a ⟨p. 136⟩Type of Christ's being lift up upon the Cross. This was a blessed lifting up. Christ's lifting up is our lifting up. Joh, 12. 32. And I if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me: That is, all that belong to the Election. For mercy runs only in the channel of Election. O how happy was it for us, that this spiritual brazen serpent was erected. Christ's being lifted up upon the Cross, is the cause of our being lifted up to Heaven. And in the Sacrament is a solemn Commemoration of Christ's Crucifixion.

4. Christ is lifted up in our hearts, by our contemplating, admiring, loving him. It is not the lifting up of Christ on the Cross will save us, unless he be lifted up in our hearts. When we prize Christ, and set him highest in our thoughts and esteem, this is to lift him up in our souls. There are two chief things a Christian hath to do, to depress self, and exalt Christ.

4. The brazen serpent resembled Christ in the design of its being lifted up, and that was intuition; when Israel were stung, they must look upon the Brazen serpent; which looking implied a secret hope they had of cure. So Christ was therefore lifted up on the Cross, that he may be looked upon by an eye of Faith. The people of Israel needed not to have taken down the Serpent from the Pole, and touched their sores with it; they were only to look on it, and they were healed. So we need not go to fetch Christ down from Heaven (as the Papists do who make him to be corporally in the Bread); no, if we do but look upon him fiducially, we shall be cured of our sting.