of promise. The promise given to our first parents in Paradise was, in one view, very general. Adam’s posterity might have misgivings as to its direct bearing on themselves; and if their consolation was to come from some special personality in the promise which might embolden them to say, it was meant individually for me, they would have remained uncomforted. But the glory of the promise was its revelation of the grace of God, and its proclamation of the coming Christ, the woman’s seed. He to whom