Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…

Ans. I answer, how do you know but that might be one thing which they charged upon him, no doubt Paul according as John Baptist did, did declare, that their being the Children of Abraham according to the Flesh as such, now availed them nothing; he 'tis plain denied their Children's right to Circumcision, to give them a right to Baptism; he received none of them to Baptism who professed not their Faith in Christ, the Covenant of peculiarity with Abraham's natural Seed as such being abolished. Moreover Paul told these Corinthians, ⟨p. 208⟩all things were now become anew; a new Church, and a new Church Membership, and a new right to that Church Membership, and now there is no knowing of Men after the Flesh, this Doctrine he preached to these Corinthians, 2 Cor. 5. 16. 17. and you force me to urge this matter often, wherefore henceforth know we no Man after the Flesh, yea, though we have known Christ after the Flesh, yet now henceforth know him no more, what doth the Apostle intend here by these words but this. viz. now henceforth or from the establishment of the dispensation of the Gospel, we know no Man after the Flesh; know, to know here, is to prefer or to esteem no Man above others, upon the account of their fleshly descent from Abraham in a lineal way by Generation, or in respect had to any Covenant God made with him or his fleshly Seed as such, that Covenant and Covenant right being taken away, he took away the first that he might establish the second, Heb. 10. 9. for the Priest-hood being charged, there is made of necessity a change also of the Law, Heb. 7. 12. there is therefore now no knowing or esteeming of Persons after that old Covenant manner, the new Covenant being quite different, or not according to the old, which run to Abraham's Fleshly Seed as such; they must now believe, and their Children must believe, before admitted as Members into the Gospel Church, therefore if any Man be in Christ, he is a new Creature, old things are passed away and all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. if any Person be grafted into Christ, or into the Gospel Church, he must have Faith and be a new Creature, or be of the New Creation as the Greek word holds forth; ay, (saith he) though we have known Christ after the Flesh, that is a Son of the Jewish Church, or esteemed him upon that account, Yet henceforth we know him, or prefer him in that respect no more;