Rom. 4:9, 10, 11, 12. "_Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?_ for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.--How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision. Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.--And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which _he had yet_ being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:--And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being _yet_ uncircumcised." Rom. 15:8. "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the premises made unto the fathers." 1 Cor. 7:18. "Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. _Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.--Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God._" From any one individual, who, in either of these distant cities, had seen any one of these same Epistles,--let it now be seen whether information of their contents, supposing it credited, would not have sufficed to produce those effects, the existence of which is so unquestionable. Not but that the same rashness, which suffered him to furnish such abundant evidence against himself in those distant regions, could scarce fail to have given birth to credence in abundance, of various sorts, and of a character, which, on that occasion, would be much more impressive. FOOTNOTES: