Próm f d of Old. fo the Enmity mentioned, fo in the latter fore jingle perfora, fore one ofher Pollerityor feed, that thould obtain the Vietory, is exprefly denoted. foras all her feed iiscom- mon, do never go about this work, the greater} part of themcondoning ina wil- ling Subje6iionuntoSatan ; fo ifall of them fhould combine to attempt it, they would never be ableto accomplifh it, as we have before proved at large. Some one therefore to corneof Her, with whom Godwould be prefenr in an efpeciall and extraordinary manner, is here exprefly prorifed. And this is' the tblef izh. God having in infinite Wrfdom and Grace, providedthis way of Relief, and given this intimationof it, That Revelation became theFoundation andCenter of all the Re- ligion that milted in the world. For as thofewho received it byFaith, and adhered unto it, continued in the Worlhip of the true God, exprefling their Faith in theSacri- fices that he had appointed typically to reprefent and exemplifie before their eyes the work its felf whichby the promifed feed was to be aecomplifbed ; fo alfo all thatfa f Worlhip which the generalityof mankind apoJtatized into, was laid in a general per, fwafion, that therewas a way for the Recovery- of the favour aGod ; but what that was they knew not, and therefore wandered in wofull uncertainties, Some fuppofe that. our great Mother Eve-ist thofe words , :Genf` q. ver. r. nnn-ntt w+te ^n>», exprelfed an Apprehention that file had bore him who was Man-God, the Manthe Lord, thePromifed Seed. And they do not only contend for this meaning of the words, but alío reproach them who are otherwife minded ; as may be teen in the Writings of Runnier and Helvicur, againfa Calvin, Junius, Parser, and Pifator. That fhe together withAdam believed the Promife, had the conlolation and fervedGod in the Faith of it, I no way doubt. But that the had an Apprehenfion that thePromifed Seed fhould beföbon exhibited,and knew that he thouldbe the Lord, or7ehovab, and yet knewnot, that he was to be born of a Virgin, and not after the ordinary way of mankind, I fee no cogentReafon to evince. Nor do the words men - tioned neceflarily prove any fiitch.apprehenfion in her. The whole weight of that Cup- pefitioc,lyes on the Confiru&ion of the words from the interpoution ofthe Particle nit denotingas they fay after Verbs aîtivv al ayes an Accufative Cafe. But ;mantesmay be given to the contrary ; whence our Tranflation reads the words, I have gotten aman from the Lord, without the Ieali intimation of any other fenfe in the Original. And Drufttu is bold toaffirm, that it is want ofPhi skill in the Sacred Tongue, that was thecarte of that conception. Betides, if fhe had fuch thoughts, the was manifoldly miflaken ; and to what end that miftake of hers thould be here expreffed , I know not. And yet.notwithflanding all this, I will not deny but that the expref ion is unufuall and extraordinary, if the fenfeof our Tranflation be intended, and not that by forne contended for, I have gotten or obtained tbe.Man the Lord. And, this, it' is polfible cauled Jonathan Ben Vzziel to give us that glofson the words in his Tar- gum. ¡ip rn mr5 t ntirlyeti toberty moan rttn5 n+nnrt rnn nit 91+ c1tt1 +n zortm im äV15 wit p rricitit. AndAdam knew bisWife Eve, who defired the Angel: andfile ' conceivedand bare Cain, and Paid, Ihave obtained the man (et a man) the Angel of the Lord. That is, him who was promifed afterwards, under the name of theAngelof the Lord, or the Angel of theCovenant, which the Jews may do well toconfider. But we have farther Expofitions of this firfl Promife, and farther Confirmationsof this Grace in the Scripture its felt For inProcefs of time it was renewed untoAbra- ham, and the Accomplithment of it confined unto his Family. For his gratuitous Call from Supetf}hion andIdolatry, with the separation of him and. his Porierity from all theFamilies ofthe Earth,was fubfervient only unto the fulfilling ofthePromife-before treated of The firft mention of it, we have Gen. 12.v. #, 2, 3. Now the lord had raid unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy.Coeintry, and from thy Kindred, and from thy Fathers Houle, unto aLand that Iwill Phew thee: And I Will Make of thee a great Na- eion, and Iwill Merlthee, and make thy Namegreat, and thou Asa be a blefng. AndI will bkfl them that Ref; thee , and ctirfe him that curfetb thee, and in thee fball all theFamilies of the Earth be blrffed. And this is again expreffed, Chap. tS. v. IS. All the Nations of the Earth flail} be bled in him. And Chap. 22. ill. And in thy feed (hall all the Nations of the Earth be blefd. And when he doubted of the accomplillt- anent of this Promife, becaufe he was Cbildlefl, andPaid, Behold unto me thou haft given no feed, as knowing that therein lay thePromife, Chap. 15.v. 3. God tells him, that he who fhould come forth of his own Bowelsfhouldbe his Heir, ver. 4. whichwas after- wards Sß. SL 29.
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