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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 2: Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Adam.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. II. Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Adam.
The Covenant of grace in this sense is nothing else but a compact made betwixt God and man, touching reconciliation, and life Eternal by Christ. Now the first breaking forth of this gracious Covenant was to Adam and Eve, immediately after the fall, expressed in these words, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 1and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
THe Covenant of grace in this sense is nothing else but a compact made betwixt God and man, touching reconciliation, and life Eternal by Christ. Now the first breaking forth of this gracious Covenant was to Adam and Eve, immediatly after the fall, expressed in these words, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 1and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- 1Gen 3 19.
This promise as it is the first; so the hardest to be understood: it contains in it good news of the overthrow of Satan's Kingdom, and of mans freedom by the death of Christ. But the obscurity is such, that Luther exceedingly complains,