A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

We will consider the words apart.

Saved.] It may either note the Salvation of the Soul, or the preservation of the Woman in Child-bearing. The first I suppose is principally intended, (for the Apostle here would signify some special comfort to Women under that curse. But the preservation of Women in Child-bearing was a common thing testified by daily experience in the worst, as well as in the best Women, and Christianity did not bring the professors of it into a worse estate in those things which immediately depended upon God, or make the Children Vipers, not to come into the world without the death of their Mothers.) Yet a temporal preservation may be included; for when an eternal salvation is promised, temporal salvation is also promised, according to the methods of Gods wisdom and goodness in the course of his providence, there being in all such promises a tacit reserve, viz. if God sees it good for us; and the manner of their preservation also, wherein the preservation of a believer differs from that of an unregenerate Person. Others are preserved by God, as a merciful Creator and Governor, in a way of common Providence, for the keeping up of the world; But believers are preserved in the way of promise and covenant, in the exercise of faith, and by the special love of God, as a tender Father, and their God in covenant with them through Christ.

Saved.] It may either note the Salvation of the Soul, or the preservation of the Woman in Child-bearing. The first I suppose is principally intended, (for the Apostle here would signify some special comfort to Women under that curse. But the preservation of Women in Child-bearing was a common thing testified by dayly experience in the worst, as well as in the best Women, and Christianity did not bring the professors of it into a worse estate in those things which immediately depended upon God, or make the Children Vipers, not to come into the world without the death of their Mothers.) Yet a temporal preservation may be included; for when an eternal salvation is promis'd, temporal salvation is also promis'd, according to the methods of Gods wisdom and goodness in the course of his providence, there being in all such promises a tacit reserve, viz. if God sees it good for us; and the manner of their preservation also, wherein the preservation of a believer differs from that of an unregenerate Person. Others are preserved by God, as a merciful Creator and Governour, in a way of common Providence, for the keeping up of the world; But believers are preserv'd in the way of promise and covenant, in the exercise of faith, and by the special love of God, as a tender Father, and their God in covenant with them through Christ.