...faithful followers of Christ, and conform to the false opinions, or sinful practices of the world. The war between "the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent" began in Paradise, and will continue until the consummation of all things, and therefore opposition...

...beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelation, the rise, progress, and issue, of the enmity and contest between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, to the final breaking of the serpent's head, to the total and irrecoverable ruin of the monarchies...

...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...

...particularity of the first promise, made to our fallen ancestors in the garden of Eden; and the contrast between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; and from its particular fulfilment in his posterity, as in the families of Noah, Abraham, and Israel;...

...took place in 1'rance, and even in our own country, are sufficient to convince us, that the original enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent still continues; and that, were the fence of civil law which God has graciously placed around us, i...

...not to be, further than in expectation of gaining a soul; when that ceases, we know God hath put an enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. Neither should we " love them that hate the Lord," as the prophet told Jehosaphat, 2 Chron. xix. And...

...its members become one spirit with him. 1 Cor. vi. 17. Eph. v. 23-32. God promised that he would "put enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent ;" and • we- see the spirit of this enmity operating in Cain, " who was of that wicked one, and slew...

...name is every where cast out with contempt. It must be so. The decree cannot be altered — I WILL PUT enmity between the seed of the' woman, and the seed of the serpent. God put it, and put it for ever. The enmity broke out, as soon as there were two born into the world....

...Christian eommunities. THE PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH. THE import of that aneient deelaration, I will put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, soon appeared. In the early settlement of Christianity, immediate war was waged against the ehureh...

...issue in that decisive conflict, described in the original prediction of the enmity which would subsist between "the Seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent." This was he, whose "heel was indeed bruised," but who " bruised the head of the serpent;" who thereby...