"The woman which thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree." Gen. 3. The woman was given for a help, not a hinderance; but
Satan often maketh that to become our snare which God hath given us
as a blessing.
"And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done?" Gen. 3. What is this? God seems to speak as if he were
astonished at the inundation of evil which the woman by her sin had
overflowed the world withal. What is this that thou hast done? Thou
hast undone thyself, thou hast undone thy husband, thou hast undone
all the world; yea, thou hast brought a curse upon the whole
creation, with an overplus of evils, plagues, and distresses.
What is this that thou hast done? Thou hast defiled thy body and
soul, thou hast disabled the whole world from serving God; yea,
moreover, thou hast let in the devil at the door of thy heart, and
hast also made him the prince of the world. What is this that thou
hast done? Ah, little, little do sinners know what they have done,
when they have transgressed the law of the Lord.
As death and the curse came into the world by a woman, so also did
life and health: "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman." Yea, to
show how much those that came after did abhor the act of the mother,
this sex, in the Old Testament, coveted children, if happily this or
that woman might be the mother of the Saviour of the world.
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