The Failure of the Privileged Jew

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Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,

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And knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Lawe:

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And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,

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An instructer of them which lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast the forme of knowledge, and of the truth in ye Law.

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Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

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Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

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Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

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For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

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Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

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And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

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For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

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But he is a Iewe which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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