A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

Therefore, God's destroying those enemies of the church by the ••ood, belongs to this affair of redemption: for it was one thing that was done in fulfilment of the covenant of grace, as it was revealed to Adam: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy […]." This destruction was only a destruction of the seed of the serpent in the midst of their violent rage against the seed of the woman, and so delivering the seed of the woman from them, when in utmost peril by them.

Therefore, God's destroying those enemies of the church by the ••ood, belongs to this affair of redemption: for it was one thing that was done in fulfilment of the covenant of grace, as it was revealed to Adam: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy 〈…〉." This destruction was only a destruction of the seed of the serpent in the midst of their violent rage against the seed of the woman, and so delivering the seed of the woman from them, when in utmost peril by them.

We read of scarce any great destruction of nations any where in Scripture, but that one main reason given for it is, their enmity and injuries against God's church; and doubtless this was one main reason of the destruction of all nations by the flood. The giants that were in those days, in all likelihood, got themselves their renown by their great exploits against Heaven, and against Christ and his church, the remaining sons of God that had not corrupted themselves.

We read, that just before the world shall be destroyed by fire, the nations that are in the four quarters of the earth, shall gather together against the church as the sand of the sea, and shall go up on the breadth of the earth, and compass the camp of the saints about and the beloved city: and then fire shall come down from God out of Heaven, and devour the,