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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.
The occasion was this. The Lord looking down from heaven, and seeing how Satan had prevailed against man, and in some sort undone the whole fabric of the creation, he resolves upon Satan's ruin, and mans preservation; And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed. This literally is understood of the Serpent, but Spiritually of the Devil; both were as means to draw man unto sin, and therefore they are joined as one in the punishment; The Lord cut off the feet of the Serpent (say the Rabbis) and cursed him; 1and he cast Samael (the Devil) and his company out of heaven, & cursed them. Indeed man being in the transgression, must also have his punishment, as it follows vers. 17, 18, 19. and yet that God might manifest the riches of his grace, he includes in the Serpents malediction this everlasting Gospel. I will put enmity between thee and the woman, &c.
The occasion was this. The Lord looking down from heaven, and seeing how Satan had prevailed against man, and in some sort undone the whole fabrick of the creation, he resolves upon Satans ruine, and mans preservation; And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed. This literally is understood of the Serpent, but Spiritually of the Devil; both were as means to draw man unto sin, and therefore they are joyned as one in the punishment; The Lord cut off the feet of the Serpent (say the Rabbies) and cursed him; 1and he cast Samael (the Devil) and his company out of heaven, & cursed them. Indeed man being in the transgression, must also have his punnishment, as it follows vers. 17, 18, 19. and yet that God might manifest the riches of his grace, he includes in the Serpents malediction this everlasting Gospel. I will put enmity between thee and the woman, &c.
- 1R. Eliezer. c. 14.
For the sense of the Words we shall open these terms, as, 1. Who is the Serpent? 2. Who is the woman? 3. What is the seed of the Serpent? 4, What is the seed of the woman? 5. What is that Hu [in our Bible translated it?] 6. What is the Serpents head, and the bruising of it? 7. What is the heel of the seed of the woman, and the bruising of it? 8. Amongst whom was the enmity, or rather enmities? for in the Text we find many Armies; I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, &c.