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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.
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,1 that was ever God but only Christ, God-Man, Man-God, blessed for ever; and therefore it must needs be Christ; and only Christ that can bruise this Serpents head: O there's a Divine Power, a power and virtue of God in it to bruise the Serpents head; observe but the manner of this Duel: Christ treads on the Serpent; and by this means he comes to have a bruise in the heel, whilst with his heel he bruiseth the Serpents head; a wonderful thing that Christ should lay at the Serpents head with no other weapon but only with his heel; it were much for any man to strike at any common Serpent with a bare and naked foot: rather would he take a dart, or club, or any other Weapon; but with a foot to bruise Satan's head (that great and fierce, and monstrous Serpent) this exceeds any mans power or any mans daring to attempt: hence it is that some one person of more than human strength must do this deed, and who is that of the Seed of the Woman but only Jesus Christ?
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,1 that was ever God but only Christ, God-Man, Man-God, blessed for ever; and therefore it must needs be Christ; and only Christ that can bruise this Serpents head: O there's a Divine Power, a power and vertue of God in it to bruise the Serpents head; observe but the manner of this Duel: Christ treads on the Serpent; and by this means he comes to have a bruise in the heel, whilst with his heel he bruiseth the Serpents head; a wonderful thing that Christ should lay at the Serpents head with no other weapon but only with his heel; it were much for any man to strike at any common Serpent with a bare and naked foot: rather would he take a dart, or club, or any other Weapon; but with a foot to bruise Satans head (that great and fierce, and monsterous Serpent) this exceeds any mans power or any mans daring to attempt: hence it is that some one person of more than human strength must do this deed, and who is that of the Seed of the Woman but only Jesus Christ?