A30167:83
Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…
Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and that he undertook to accomplish by himself the eternal redemption of sinners also, that the Lord Jesus addressed himself to this work, with undeniable demonstrations that he performed the same : objections to the contrary answered / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675
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.
He promised him under the name of the Seed of the Woman, after our first Father had sinned: I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed, it shall break thy Head, and thou shalt bruise his Heel (Gen. 3. 15.) This the Apostle hath his eye upon when he saith, When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to Redeem them that were under the Law, Gal. 4. 4.
He promised him under the name of the Seed of the Woman, after our first Father had sinned: I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed, it shall break thy Head, and thou shalt bruise his Heel (Gen. 3. 15.) This the Apostle hath his eye upon when he saith, When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to Redeem them that were under the Law, Gal. 4. 4.
2. God renewed this Promise to Abraham, and there tells him Christ should be his Seed; saying, ⟨p. 10⟩In thy Seed shall all Families of the Earth be blessed, (Gen. 12. 3.) Now saith Paul; To Abraham and his Seed was the Promise made; He saith not unto Seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy Seed, which is Christ, (Gal. 3. 16.)