The Jews might ObjeR, If rhe former Privileges availed nn to Righreouſnefs and Salvation ; yer Circumcition at lea might; tand them in ſome ſtead ? In Anſwer whereunto you have, Fri a Con- ceſton, Circumcition indeed is Profitable. thou keep the Law, which is INuſtrated by a large Anrithetis, wer. 26, 27. 3. A DiftinQuion «: Circumcition 15 of two 90175, Outrrard and Litreral, Inward and Spiritual ; the Latter ftands 11 Corce, and hath Acceptation with God. wer. 28, 29. e If thou keep it per- tettly, to which Circumcition obligeth, Gal. 5. 3. or if thou wi thy urmoſt Care and Endeavour ſoto do. f 7.e. If otheriw ith thou Traoſgreſſeſt the Law, thy Circumciion avails thee nothino - jr gives thee no Privilege above the Uncircumcis'd. A wicked ip 1s to God as an Ethiopian, Amos 9. 7, The Apoſtle corr.G4$ the Carnal Confidence and Iypocrilic of the Fews, who vilued then - ſelves upon the account of this outward Ceremony, and thous hr ir ſufficient ro be Circumcis'd in the Fleſh. Some think rhe Apoſtle h1#1 Reſpe6& in rheſe wordsrorhe Time of the Law, whilſt Circum- c.10N was an ordinary Sacrament of tte Covenant; then indeed jt was Profitable and Available ; bur now, inthe times of the Golpe] 't iS Abrogitcd, wid, Gal. 5. 2, 5. ;
25 Fictetoie nt the uncircumcifion g keep the || riph. 5 Oc oF «c? !! ; _
reouſnels of the Law þ, jhall not his uncircumcition be counted for circrmciſion.
g #7. e. The Uncircumcis'd ; a figurative and frequent way of Speaking, wid. Rom. 3.30 andg4.9. þ Which none of them ever did ; but admit they cou!d, or elſe which ſome of them have done in ſincerity, though with manifold imperfe&ions ; ſuch as the two Centurions, one of which 1s mentioned in rhe Goſpel of Luke ; the other in the #5: If in this Sence the Uncircumciſed keep the Righ- teouſneſs of the Law, Shall they nor be all one in the Account of God, as if they were Circumcited ? wid. Rom. 4. 10.
2; And {hall not uncircumcifian which is by nature z, if it fulfil tho law &, judge thee /, who by the letter and circumciſion » doeft || eranſgreſs the T.aw?
# A Periphraſis of the G-atzles, who want Circumciſion, or are by Nature without it. & Here's another word, before it was K-ep, but now 'tis Fulfi/ rhe Law ; though the word be varied, yer the Sence 1s the ſame, wid. James 2. 8. 1 #. e. Rile up in Judgment againſt thee ; or elfe ſhall he not do it by his Example ? as in Mr: 12.41, 42. The Men of Nimeveh,and rhe Queen of Sveba ſhail judge the Iſraelites ; The meaning is, the Obedient Genrile fall Condemn the Diſobedient Jew. m i. e. The outward litceral Circumciſion ; or by the Letter, underſtand the Law, wid. 2 Cor. 3.6, 5, The Sence 15, by means of the Lew and Circumciſion, and reſting in then: as Pledges of the Lowe of Gvd (lo v. 17.) they are the more ſecure and bold in Sinning againſt God : Ir is to them an Occaition of T ranſgrefſion.
28 For * he 15 not a Jew » that is one {| outwardly »,
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n A right or true Jew, which is Heir of the Promiſes made to the Fathers. o The word Only is to be underſtood , wid. 1 Cor. x. 17. þ The Right and True Circumciſion which God principally requires, and 1s available unto Salvation : That Circumciſion 15 not much to be accounted of, which 1s only the cutting off an out ward Skin.
29 But he zx a Jew q which 1s one || * inwardly ; and * circumciſion zs that of the keart, in the ſpirit. and noc in the letter, * whoſe praiſe zs not of men but of God.
gq He isa Right and True Jew, an 1jraelite indeed, that hath taken away the Fore-skin of his Heart, 7er 4. 4. that is cleanſed from all corrupt «fefions, and hath Jaid aſide all Superfluicy of Naughti- neſs ; that Worſhippeth God in the Spirit, Kejoyceth in Chriſt 7e-
fur, and hath no Confidence in the Fleth. Such are rhe Circumci/-
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