The Fountain of Life Opened

Secondly, Hereby he was represented to the world, not only as a Subject, but also as a Sinner. For though he was pure and holy, yet this ordinance passing upon him, seemed to imply as if corruption had indeed been in him; which must be cut off by mortification. For this was the mystery principally intended by circumcision;¹ It served to mind and admonish Abraham, and his seed, of the natural guiltiness, uncleanness and corruption of their hearts and natures. So Jer. 4.4. Circumcise your selves unto the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Judah: (i. e.) the sinfulness and corruption of them. Hence the rebellious, and unmortified, are called stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart, as it is, Acts 7.51. and as it served to convince of natural uncleanness, so it signified and sealed the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, as the Apostle phraseth it. Col. 2.11. Now this being the end of God in the institution of this ordinance, for Abraham and his ordinary seed; Christ in his infancy by submitting to it, did not only veil his Sovereignty, by subjection: but was also represented as a sinner to the world, though most holy and pure in himself.

Secondly, Hereby he was represented to the world, not only as a Subject, but also as a Sinner. For though he was pure and holy, yet this ordinance passing upon him, seemed to imply as if corruption had indeed been in him; which must be cut off by mortification. For this was the mysterie principally intended by circumcision;¹ It served to mind and admonish Abraham, and his seed, of the natural guiltiness, uncleanness and corruption of their hearts and natures. So Jer. 4.4. Circumcise your selves unto the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Judah: (i. e.) the sinfulness and corruption of them. Hence the rebellious, and unmortified, are called stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart, as it is,