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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.
4. What is the Seed of the Woman?—The Seed of the Woman is that posterity of the Woman which do not degenerate into the Seed of the Serpent: that is the meaning of the first sentence, I will put enmity;—and then it follows, between thy Seed and her Seed: and for this sense we have these arguments. 1. The opposition of the Seeds, for as the Seed of the Serpent is taken collectively, so the Seed of the Woman must be taken collectively, that the opposition may be fit. 2. The enmities fore-spoken do strongly evince it: now the enmities pertain both to Eve and to all her posterity (if godly) to the end of the world; hence all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, saith the Apostle;1 And I will put enmity (saith God) between thee & the woman; is that all? no, but also between thy Seed and her Seed: and who can deny but these enmities have been ever since betwixt Satan's brood and the Saints? we are all wrestlers against Principalities and Powers, and Rulers of the darkness of this World, 2and against spiritual wickednesses in high places.
4. What is the Seed of the Woman?—The Seed of the Woman is that posterity of the Woman which do not degenerate into the Seed of the Serpent: that is the meaning of the first sentence, I will put enmity;—and then it follows, between thy Seed and her Seed: and for this sense we have these arguments. 1. The opposition of the Seeds, for as the Seed of the Serpent is taken collectively, so the Seed of the Woman must be taken collectively, that the opposition may be fit. 2. The enmities fore-spoken do strongly evince it: now the enmities pertain both to Eve and to all her posterity (if godly) to the end of the world; hence all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, saith the Apostle;1 And I will put enmity (saith God) between thee & the woman; is that all? no, but also between thy Seed and her Seed: and who can deny but these enmities have been ever since betwixt Satans brood and the Saints? we are all wrestlers against Principalities and Powers, and Rulers of the darkness of this World, 2and against spiritual wickednesses in high places.