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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.
Who is the woman? Some are all for Allegories, and thy will tell you, that the Serpent and the Woman are the superior & inferior faculties of the Soul; and that ever since the Fall there hath been a continual War betwixt these: but I look at this Commentary as vain and trifling, though it be fathered on some of the Ancients, and of no small note; others say, this Woman is the Blessed Virgin, in relation to which, they read the last words thus, she shall bruise thy head; this reading is not only allowed, but confirmed by the Council of Trent, and in some of their Prayer-books, thy call her The Mother of the Lord, the Tree of Life, the breaker of the Serpents head, and the Gate of Heaven. But I look on this Commentary as ignorant & Idolatrous,1 and wholly derogatory to the Kingdom of Christ. Others are not so easily mislead, and therefore say, that the Woman wheresoever mentioned in this Text, is Eve, and none but Eve; she it was whom the tempter had seduced, and in just judgment for her familiarity with the tempter, God meets with her, I will put enmity (saith God) between thee and the Woman.
Who is the woman? Some are all for Allegories, and thy will tell you, that the Serpent and the Woman are the superiour & inferiour faculties of the Soul; and that ever since the Fall there hath been a continual War betwixt these: but I look at this Commentary as vain and trifling, though it be fathered on some of the Antients, and of no small note; others say, this Woman is the Blessed Virgin, in relation to which, they read the last words thus, she shall bruise thy head; this reading is not only allowed, but confirmed by the Councel of Trent, and in some of their Prayer-books, thy call her The Mother of the Lord, the Tree of Life, the breaker of the Serpents head, and the Gate of Heaven. But I look on this Commentary as ignorant & Idolatrous,1 and wholly derogatory to the Kingdom of Christ. Others are not so easily mislead, and therefore say, that the Woman wheresoever mentioned in this Text, is Eve, and none but Eve; she it was whom the tempter had seduced, and in just judgment for her familiarity with the tempter, God meets with her, I will put enmity (saith God) between thee and the Woman.
- 1Antiphona de domina nostra secundum usum Eccles Hildenshem.