ion, who refused to "submit themselves unto the righteousness of God," of which, when properly understood, it was the sign and the seal. So must all, without remedy, perish, notwithstanding their baptism and their other outward privileges, who are not "born again" by being made partakers of like precious faith with Abraham. Circumcision could not save the one; neither can baptism save the other. Mere natural descent from Abraham could not save the one; neither can mere natural relation to godly parents save the other. All the variety of external privilege and observance could not save the one ;-outward connection with the purest church on earth, and the most punctilious attendance upon all its institutions, cannot save the other. "He was not a Jew who was one outwardly, neither was that circumcision which was outward in the flesh; but he was a Jew who was one inwardly, and circumcision was that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God." He is not a Christian, who is one outwardly; neither is that baptism which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Christian, who is one inwardly, and baptism is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation."*

* Rom. ii. 28, 29. Gal, vi. 15.

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