 | Jonathan Edwards - 1832 - 454 pages
...excelling others, in being good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, and of the necessity of persecution, becoming- credible and customary, has a direct tendency to cause... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 pages
...righteous»." Descend through all successive ages, and you will still find the same enmity subsisting between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. As light and darkness, so Christ and Belial, both in themselves and in their members, ever have been,... | |
 | 1831 - 500 pages
...contest between her and the gates of hell have long ago commenced. For nearly six thousand years, the war between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent has lasted. Even the leader of the church's forces, whom God gave for an ensign to the people, has... | |
 | 1833 - 402 pages
...excision : for there is decided the controversy between the children of God and the children of Satan, between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, which has been going on ever since the Fall; and there all the wicked of the earth are congregated... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 pages
...the wicked walk on every title," he that departeth from evil, maketh himself a prey.' The old enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent is still working, and the old game every day played over again. * The truth at it it in Jetiis, and... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1833 - 402 pages
...war with lust and hypocrisy. And thus it was that enmity, the fiercest and most inveterate, was put between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The serpent himself came to the assistance of his seed ; evil angels conspired with evil men ; and... | |
 | George Burder, Joseph Hughes - 1833 - 1134 pages
...her« commenced between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the Devil among men; war is proclaimed enry Matthew" Matthew Henry [shall surely be put to dea That war in Heaven between Michael and iho Dragon began now. Rev, 12. 7. It is the fruit of this enmity,... | |
 | John Gillies - 1834 - 672 pages
...live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecution. In this promise, there is an eternal enmity put between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent ; so that those that are born after the flesh, cannot but persecute those that are born after the Spirit.... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 pages
...is a decisive test of conversion to God, since an interminable enmity was implanted by God himself between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. But " every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him." — " We know... | |
 | George Croly - 1834 - 666 pages
...he for the purpose of " destroying the works of the Devil." (1 John iii. 8.) It was prophesied that between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent there should be enmity. Our Lord directly applies the prophecy to the Pharisees, who, after exhibiting... | |
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Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent... 
