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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.
2. The Seventy in their Translations of this place (with which agrees the Chaldee Paraphrast) renders it [Greek or Hebrew], he] which needs most denote some singular person, or Son of the woman; and the rather because the Seed spoken of before is rendered [Greek or Hebrew], to which if the relative had rightly agreed, it should have been [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew]; Hereto we may add, that to this it] or he] the Seed of the Serpent is not opposed as it was in the former sentence; but the Serpent it self, one singular Antagonist; here is singularis [Greek or Hebrew], a duel, or a combat of two, hand to hand, only Christ and the Serpent; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
2. The Seventy in their Translations of this place (with which agrees the Chaldee Paraphrast) renders it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he] which needs most denote some singular person, or Son of the woman; and the rather because the Seed spoken of before is rendered 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to which if the relative had rightly agreed, it should have been 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Hereto we may add, that to this it] or he] the Seed of the Serpent is not opposed as it was in the former sentence; but the Serpent it self, one singular Antagonist; here is singularis 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a duel, or a combate of two, hand to hand, only Christand the Serpent; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
3. The bruising of the head doth plainly discover this it, or he is Jesus Christ: for non can bruise the Serpents head but only God: the God of peace (saith the Apostle) shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. Now there was none of the Seed of the Woman,