Who are the Judaisers?
By R. F. Cottrell
THOSE who teach that the Israel to be gathered in the future are such as are "Jews inwardly"—"Israelites indeed;" or those who say it is the literal descendants of Abraham? Those who say, There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; or those who affirm that there is a difference—that the Jews will be first in the kingdom of heaven? Those who teach that they that are Christ's are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise;44or those who teach that the children of the flesh, who have continued in unbelief throughout the gospel age, must be graffed in again, and be counted for the seed? Those who look, for their inheritance to Jerusalem, above which is free, which is the mother of all Christians, Jews and Gentiles; or those who are looking to the mother of the Jews which is in bondage with her children? Those who teach that the earthly, typical tabernacle and priesthood have met their antitypes in heaven itself, and have ceased forever; or those who tell us that there is yet to be a temple and priesthood "on earth," in a dispensation far more glorious than the present? Finally, are they those who teach that circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is something; or are they those who teach that circumcision is something, but the keeping of the fourth commandment of God is nothing but a yoke of bondage? R. F. COTTRELL.
Mill Grove, N. Y., July 3d, 1853.