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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. Betwixt Satan's seed, and the seed of the woman: I will put enmity, not only between thee, and the woman, but also between thy seed, and her seed, q.d. This enmity shall not cease with the death of the woman, but it shall continue to her seed, and to her seeds seed, even to the end of the World. We see to this day how the Serpent and Serpents seed are striving and warring against the Church; and a wonder it is (considering the malice of the enemy) that there is a Church upon Earth, but only that we have Christs promise, The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it; and lo I am with you always, even to the end of the World.
2. Betwixt Satans seed, and the seed of the woman: I will put enmity, not onely between thee, and the woman, but also between thy seed, and her seed, q.d. This enmity shall not cease with the death of the woman, but it shall continue to her seed, and to her seeds seed, even to the end of the World. We see to this day how the Serpent and Serpents seed are striving and warring against the Church; and a wonder it is (considering the malice of the enemy) that there is a Church upon Earth, but onely that we have Christs promise, The gates of Hell shall not prevaile against it; and lo I am with you alwayes, even to the end of the World.
3. Betwixt Christ and the Serpent. O this a bloody conflict on both sides, he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 1. He shall bruise thy head; Christ shall break thy power, thy power, (i.e.) the power of the Serpent, or of the Devil himself: he fights not so much with the seed, as with the Serpent; if Satan be overthrown, his seed cannot stand. 2. Thou shalt bruise his heel; thou shalt afflict him and his, thou shalt cast out of thy mouth a flood of persecutions: thou shalt make war with him, 1and all them which keep the Commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
3. Betwixt Christ and the Serpent. O this a bloody conflict on both sides, he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 1. He shall bruise thy head; Christ shall break thy power, thy power, (i.e.) the power of the Serpent, or of the Devil himself: he fights not so much with the seed, as with the Serpent; if Satan be overthrown, his seed cannot stand. 2. Thou shalt bruise his heel; thou shalt afflict him and his, thou shalt cast out of thy mouth a flood of persecutions: thou shalt make warre with him,