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2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not so to any other Nation; this Rite could not therefore be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a Sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concerned. And thus Paul argues, Rom. 31. What Advantage then hath the Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? Ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's Natural Seed, and of Circumcision which was a Sign of it; the chiefest Privilege which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandments.

2. As a Token or Sign to them of the giving forth of the Law on Mount Sinai. He dealt his Laws and Statutes to Israel, he did not so to any other Nation; this Rite could not therefore be a Gospel-Rite, nor the Covenant it was a Sign of a Gospel-Covenant, in which the Gentile Christians are concern'd. And thus Paul argues, Rom. 31. What Advantage then hath the Jew? or what Profit is there in Circumcision? Ver. 2. Much every way; chiefly, because unto them were committed the Oracles of God. You may soon know the nature of that Covenant made with Abraham's Natural Seed, and of Circumcision which was a Sign of it; the chiefest Privilege which attended it, was the giving to them, i. e. the People of Israel, the Law of the Ten Commandments.

3. Circumcision, by the Doctrine of St. Paul, was a Privilege if they kept: the Law: For Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the Law; but if thou be a Breaker of the Law, thy Circumcision is made Uncircumcision, or a Nullity, and ⟨p. 59⟩profiteth thee nothing; that is, if thou keep not the Law perfectly. And thus speak our late Annotators on the place, If thou [Jew] keep the Law perfectly, to which Circumcision obligeth, Gal. 5. 3. If otherwise thou transgressest the Law, thy Circumcision availeth thee nothing, it gives thee no Privilege above the uncircumcised. What is now become (this being so) of that mighty Privilege Abraham's Seed (as such) had by Circumcision, if the chief Profit or Privilege was, because unto them the Land should be given, which could not give Life, but was a Covenant of Works? then the chiefest Profit lay not in it, as it was an Ordinance of Initiation into the Church: sure, had Paul been of the Judgment of Pedo-baptists, he would have rather past by that Privilege, when he spoke of Circumcision, which he calls the chief, and have said, chiefly in that it was a Seal of Church-Membership. But since he speaks the quite contrary, who shall we believe, you, or the great Apostle of the Gentiles? And evident it is, he confirms the same Doctrine,