2. The Advice or Counsel given, be thus minded; What is that? [Greek or Hebrew], think the same thing with me: What that is, must be known by the foregoing Context, and may be gathered from the third Verse, he had spoken of some false Teachers and judaizing Brethren, who gave out themselves to be Patrons, and Defenders of the Circumcision, and other Ceremonies of the Law, as if these thing• did commend them to God: Now the Apostle reproveth them, and saith they were not [Greek or Hebrew], the Circumcision, but [Greek or Hebrew], the Concision, Destroyers and Renders of the Church, not the true ⟨p. 151⟩People of God, who were sometimes noted by the Term Circumcision: they are the Concision, the Cutters and Dividers of the Church; but we are [Greek or Hebrew], the true Circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the Flesh: That is, who have no confidence in any superficial Righteousness, but seek our Justification before God, and the renovation of our Natures from Christ alone; and serve God, by exercising this Grace, in Faith, Love, and Hope; or who seek to Christ alone, for his renewing and reconciling Grace, that we may serve God in a spiritual Manner, and so at length attain the promised Glory. Now this he proveth by his own Instance, who had as much cause to glory in the Flesh, as any of them, but suffered the loss of all things, and counted all things wherein they gloried, and he might have gloried, but loss and dung, that he might obtain this Grace from Christ Jesus; and at length, after a diligent self-denying course of Service and Obedience, be brought home to God. Now, saith he, As many as be perfect, [Greek or Hebrew], mind this, take care of this, and do you, with the loss of all things, press to this.
2. The Advice or Counsel given, be thus minded; What is that? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, think the same thing with me: What that is, must be known by the foregoing Context, and may be gathered from the third Verse, he had spoken of some false Teachers and judaizing Brethren, who gave out themselves to be Patrons, and Defenders of the Circumcision, and other Ceremonies of the Law, as if these thing• did commend them to God: Now the Apostle reproveth them, and saith they were not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Circumcision, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Concision, Destroyers and Renders of the Church, not the true ⟨p. 151⟩People of God, who were sometimes noted by the Term Circumcision: they are the Concision, the Cutters and Dividers of the Church; but we are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the true Circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Iesus, and have no confidence in the Flesh: That is, who have no confidence in any superficial Righteousness, but seek our Justification before God, and the renovation of our Natures from Christ alone; and serve God, by exercising this Grace, in Faith, Love, and Hope; or who seek to Christ alone, for his renewing and reconciling Grace, that we may serve God in a spiritual Manner, and so at length attain the promised Glory. Now this he proveth by his own Instance, who had as much cause to glory in the Flesh, as any of them, but suffered the loss of all things, and counted all things wherein they gloried, and he might have gloried, but loss and dung, that he might obtain this Grace from Christ Jesus; and at length, after a diligent self-denying course of Service and Obedience, be brought home to God. Now, saith he, As many as be perfect, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, mind this, take care of this, and do you, with the loss of all things, press to this.
