Excerpt from A Sermon Preached Before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: At Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, on Friday, February 21, 1772 Prophecy was coeval' with the fall of man, and the firfi inftance of it has the kingdom of Chrif't, or the redemption of man, for its oh jeet. The words of it import, that 7'the feed of the woman [hould avenge her caufe on the head of the ferpent, and repair the da mages ful'cained by the fall: but in thofe da mages were involved the whole race of man (0 that had the promife of indemnity been confined to the Jewifli, nation, the remedy would not only have been Inadequate to the em], but infinitely ibort of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.