and half black, much of judgement and ter∣rour, and much of mercy and consolation, resembling Moses, who saved the Israelites, and slew the Egyptians.
In this verse, you have the Sun in a cloud, the Gospel with its masque on: the day-break of that glorious mystery which was hid in God from before the foundation of the world, the light whereof, though it were faint, and shadowy in regard of our Noon-day-brightnesse, yet at that time, through the help of the prospective of faith they might see thereby,
1. Mans Redemption, from the Tyran∣ny of Satan, and by consequence from sin, death, and hell, noted in that expression of breaking the Serpents head.
2. That man should be redeemed by a Mediatour, viz. by the intervention of the seed of the woman.
3. That this Mediator should be true man, intimated by the seed of the woman, and that he should have a divine power, being able to break the Serpents head, which is tantum mount to 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, God∣man.
4. That this Redemption should be wrought in a way of suffering, intimated by that expression, Thou shalt bruise his heel.