...them only. Matth.5:3. " Blessed are the poor in spirit." Phil.3:3. " We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." H For these flow from our building so much on something in our. selves, which is always...

...sweetest delight in God. May the apostle's experience herein be thine : " We are of the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." O pray for the same grace, and thou wilt find that the less confidence there is in the...

...of them as being of the true or spiritual circumcision, and asserts, " We are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Such, and such only, are the legitimate members of that church, which Christ has purchased...

...heaven." And " Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me." " We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." (2.) In a real hatred of all sin ; being willing to part with every lust, without exception,...

...receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls P." "We are the circumcision that worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh q." " Rejoice evermorer." "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice s." "...

...to need much elucidation. No voice is heard, as in the desert of Sinai, summoning together such as worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, but- there is a line drawn, and all are on one side or the other. The world is divided,...

...holiness, I will rejoice ;" and they are all stamped with the character of " the true circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." The sum of the observation that has been now explained and defended, may be shortly...

...described. Let us take one exemplification only. " We are the circumcision," says the Apostle, " who worship God in the spirit; and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Doy да" worship God" — in public1! Alone? Habitually) Do you worship God "in the...

..." We are the circumcision," he writes to his beloved converts, " the saints at Philipp!, " " which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." May that blessed Spirit which dictated to the Apostle these distinctive tokens of Christian...

...of dogs, beware of evil work" ers, beware of the concision : for we are the circum(( cision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice (( in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. (e) In this passage, as in the former, the noun is used for a participle ; it means "...