Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
God promised to Eve, that the seed of a woman
Should tread down the head of the subtle serpent,
This Promise was fully accomplished than
When Christ became man and made the atonement.
This seed was of his mother and not from heaven sent
How can it be called the seed of a woman truly
Which taketh no substance, nor part of her body?
To Abraham and Jacob, the same seed was promised
The book of Genesis, is plain and manifest:
In thy seed, shall all the people of the world be blessed
Not brought from above, but born to perform the behest
Was Christ of his mother, and not from heaven sent
To this sense and meaning thy wits thou incline,
And mark well what is meant by this pronounce thine
How could it be their seed, which take not their substance
But came down from heaven, and was not of their kind? ...
Should tread down the head of the subtle serpent,
This Promise was fully accomplished than
When Christ became man and made the atonement.
This seed was of his mother and not from heaven sent
How can it be called the seed of a woman truly
Which taketh no substance, nor part of her body?
To Abraham and Jacob, the same seed was promised
The book of Genesis, is plain and manifest:
In thy seed, shall all the people of the world be blessed
Not brought from above, but born to perform the behest
Was Christ of his mother, and not from heaven sent
To this sense and meaning thy wits thou incline,
And mark well what is meant by this pronounce thine
How could it be their seed, which take not their substance
But came down from heaven, and was not of their kind? ...
For more, see Edmund Becke on Christ taking his humanity from Mary.
