Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:23

23 If a man on the Sabbath-day receive Circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken , are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath-day ?

The strength of this whole Argument seemeth to be this. If a Ritual Law (such was that for observation of the Sabbath, given in Mount Sinai, Exod. 20.) may give place to another Ritual Law which is ancienter (such was that of Circumcision, given to Abraham long before) much more ought it to give place to a Law of Nature wrote in every mans Heart, viz. That it is our Duty to help those that are in great degrees of Misery and Affliction; which is what I paid Obedience to in Curing the Impotent man that lay at the Pool of Bethesda.

Do you yield this in your daily practice, that a man may be Circumcised, yea, and ought to be Circumcised on the eight day, tho it happeneth to be the Sabbath-day; and not to do it, were a violation of the Law of Moses about Circumcision, which was a Law given you by Moses, tho before him, to Abraham also?

What reason then have you to be Angry with me, who on the Sabbath-day have onely healed a man, and made him every whit whole: That is (as some think) I have not onely Cured him as to his Body, but as to his Soul, (but that hardly seemeth probable; for if it were so, the Iews could have no Evidence of the Spiritual Cure.) Others therefore think that the term [non-Latin text not transcribed], signifieth no more than perfectly, or compleatly whole, as to his Body.

Marginal references: Or, without breaking the Law of Moses.