For Adam, by his sin, being become the child of wrath, and both in body and in soul subject to the curse, and seeing nothing due to him but the wrath and vengeance of God, was “afraid, and sought to hide himself from the presence of God,” (Gen 3:10), whereupon the Lord promised Christ unto him, saying to the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed”; he [that is to say, the seed of the woman, for so is the Hebrew text] “shall break thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” This promise of Christ, the woman’s seed, (verse 15), was the gospel; and the only comfort of Adam, Abel, Enoch, Noah, and the rest of the godly fathers, until the time of Abraham.⁵⁶
Thomas Boston | Edward Fisher, Marrow of Modern Divinity (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library) 38.

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  Tony grew up in Rhode Island. He was educated at BA (University of Rhode Island) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He worked in the insurance industry for ten years. He planted a PCA church in Wakefield, RI where he served for eleven years. In 2015–18 he pastored Covenant Reformed Church (URCNA) in Colorado Springs. He is currently pastor of Living Hope (OPC). Tony is married to Donna and together they have three children.

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