Galatians 1

Christ has purchased a reprieve for these, but a sinner may have a reprieve and yet go to hell (John 5:6). 2. Such as are redeemed by Christ, are redeemed from the world (Galatians 1:4). Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver (or redeem) us from this present evil w…

2. You that have been tempted and come off victors, be full of sympathy, pity tempted souls; show your piety in your pity. Do you see Satan's darts sticking in their sides, do what you can to pull out these darts; communicate your experiences to them; tell them how you broke the…

Sometime immediately by himself and his own voice: as, the extraordinary Prophets in the Old Testament, and the Apostles in the New. So says Saint Paul of himself, he was called to be an Apostle, not of men, nor by men, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, Galatians 1:1. Som…

Lastly, there is a secret enmity between the seed of the wicked, and the seed of the Church: (1 John 3:12) the wicked are of that evil one, the devil; and therefore, must needs hate the godly, who are born of God. So that, when we shall see or hear, that ungodly persons shall in…

And in that hope let us persuade ourselves, that he may quicken our dead hearts, and revive us by his grace. And therefore in that hope, let us raise up ourselves, to use all holy means, of God's Word, Sacraments, and Prayer: which if we carefully and continually do, we shall se…

An angel brings Philip to the Eunuch that he may expound the scriptures to him. Lastly, they reveal the mysteries and the will of God: as to Abraham that he should not kill his son Isaac, to Mary and [reconstructed: Elizabeth] the nativity of John the Baptist, and of Christ our…

First, by giving thanks to God for them and the benefits that God vouchsafed by them to his Church. Thus Paul says that when the churches heard of his conversion, they glorified God for him, or in him (Galatians 1:24). The like is to be done for the saints departed.

If it be said that this place must be understood of Christ's miracles only, I answer that miracles without the doctrine of Christ and knowledge of his sufferings can bring no man to life everlasting. Therefore the place must be understood of the doctrine of Christ and not of his…

And, he mortifies his members on earth (Colossians 3:1-4). He is redeemed from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4). He is dead to sins, and lives to righteousness (1 Peter 2:24).

(2 Corinthians 13:14) "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ." (Galatians 1:15) "He called me by his grace." If we could engage the grace of God, or prevent it, then grace should be our birth; but grace is not essential to angels.

Christ is quick of understanding, to know what word is the fittest key, to shoot the iron bar that keeps the heart closed; he opens seals on the heart with authority, violence may break up sealed letters, but it may be unjustly done; but authority can open Kings' seals justly. C…

Answer: That is denied, he died for them as they were sinners, but as within the pale and under the covering of the fair and sweet shadow of eternally choosing love, otherwise, if Christ died for sinners as sinners; he died for all sinners; and for those that are finally obstina…

Take you a man in the estate of nature, and he will say, God be thanked he had always a good mind, and his parents would never say no less of him, but he was always a promising and hopeful child he thanks God; and thus a man will speak that is only well nurtured, he will say, it…

And Paul does the false apostles no wrong when he so vehemently inveighs against them: but he justly condemns them by his Apostolic authority. In like manner when we call the Pope Antichrist, his bishops and his shavelings a cursed generation, we slander them not, but by God's a…

For it is not without cause that he uses such vehement and pithy words. He speaks after the same manner also in the first chapter, saying: If we or an Angel from heaven preach to you otherwise than we have preached to you, let him be accursed (Galatians 1:8). And it is not to be…

Here then our merits, and satisfactions, and all inward justice, is excluded from the justification of a sinner. To this end Paul says, that we are justified freely by the redemption that is in Christ (Romans 3:24); that we are made the justice of God in him (and not in us) (2 C…

To which I answer that we may, and ought. For although we may not be men-pleasers, that is, such as frame and temper our actions, and our speeches, so, as they may always be pleasing to the corrupt humors and wicked affections of men (for then we were not the servants of God) (G…

So Christ took not upon himself the office of the high Priest, but he which advanced him to it, said, You are my son, this day have I begotten you (Psalm 2:7). Moreover, the Prophet defines not of the beginning of time, as if God had then begun to call him from the womb, but it…

For this cause the Prophet commands that such authority be given to the word of God, to the end we may boldly despise the whole world, if they should gainsay it; for by the authority thereof, we may condemn the Angels themselves, if they should fall into such a sin. If an Angel…

26. Woe to you when all men shall applaud you The last woe is intended to correct ambition: for nothing is more common than to seek the applauses of men, or, at least, to be carried away by them; and, in order to guard his disciples against such a course, he points out to them t…

Nothing has a more powerful tendency to withdraw teachers from a faithful and upright dispensation of the word than to pay respect to men; for it is impossible that any one who desires to please men (Galatians 1:10) should truly devote himself to God.

As he testifies to the Galatians, saying, Paul an Apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father) and so on — immediately taught from above. As it is written, Now I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me was not after men (…

So of spiritual Joy, as in the stony-ground Hearers, Matthew 13:20, and particularly many of John the Baptist's Hearers, John 5:35. So of Zeal, as in Jehu, 2 Kings 10:16, and in Paul before his Conversion, Galatians 1:14, Philippians 3:6, and the unbelieving Jews, Acts 22:3, Rom…

1 John 5:10: He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself. Galatians 1:14, 15, 16: Being more exceedingly [zealous] of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to REVEAL His Son…

He is therefore so Efficiently, as that he is the immediate Cause and Author of it, and that as he is now with God in Glory. Hence it is said, that we live, that is, this Life of God, yet so as that we live not of our selves, but Christ lives in us, Gal. 1. 20. And he does no ot…

He speaks of the contrary doctrine as fatal and ruinous to the souls of men, in the latter end of the ninth chapter of Romans, and beginning of the tenth. He speaks of it as subversive of the gospel of Christ, and calls it another gospel, and says concerning it, if any one, thou…

This plainly shows, that there is such a thing as a discovery of the divine superlative Glory and Excellency of GOD and CHRIST; and that peculiar to the Saints: and also that 'tis as immediately from GOD, as Light from the Sun: and that 'tis the immediate Effect of his Power and…

What should I speak of James, not the Apostle but the Brother of our Savior, the son-in-law of the Mother of our Lord: who by the Apostles, was ordained Bishop of Jerusalem, as Eusebius, in his 2nd book of Ecclesiastical History, and 1st chapter, out of the 6th of the Hypotypose…

The whole world lis in evil. Gal. 1. 4. Christ gaue himselfe, to deliuer us from this present evil world.

But besides this, there is a sovereign kind of judgment you c[]safed to the Prophets and Apostles, determining absolutely in matters of faith & conscience what is to be done, & what is not; and this is the judgment of God himselfe, whereupon the Apostles might say, It seem[]th g…

What delight does a dead man take in pictures or music? Jesus Christ gave himself to redeem us from this present evil [reconstructed: world] (Galatians 1:4). If we will be saved, we must offer violence to the world.

And the same Apostle speaks of great Numbers among the Galatians, who had made a high Profession, and were such as he had thought well of when they were first admitted into the Church, but since had given him Cause to doubt of their State, by giving Heed to Seducers that denied…

If they would flatter sinners that flatter themselves in a sinful way, and cry peace to them, to whom the God of heaven does not speak peace, they might avoid a great deal of reproach and censure; but they dare not do it. They are not to make a new law and gospel, but to preach…

And as from moral evil, so from natural evil; from external and internal evil, from all weakness of parts, and from all pains, and sickness, and deformities, from all labors, all incumbrances here in the world; freed from the company, and madness, and opposition, and tyranny, an…

First, self-opinion: We must be willing to lie quietly under the truth, to be convinced, and to be guided by it. Secondly, self-counsels, and self-reasonings, must be denyed; we must take heed of conferring with flesh and blood: as it was the care of Saint Paul, Gal. 1:16 immedi…

By being made a curse, he has delivered us from the curse. 2. Death (Hebrews 2:14-15), and therewith from Satan (Hebrews 2:15; Colossians 1:13), and sin (Romans 6:14; 1 Peter 1:18), with the world (Galatians 1:4), with all the attendances, advantages, and claim of them all (Gala…

Now redemption is the deliverance of any one from bondage, or captivity, and the miseries attending that condition, by the intervention or interposition of a price or ransom paid by the redeemer to him by whose authority the captive was detained. 1. In general it is a deliveranc…

1. To show the ground of eye-service: which is because all their care is to please their master, who is a man: for well they know that man can see but the outward show, or that which is done before his face. 2. To show the heinousness of that sin: for it is tainted with Atheism,…

Thus it appears, that this willful Sinner is condemned for renouncing the only Method of Atonement provided for the Pardon of Sins, which it was one of the chief Glories of the Christian Religion to reveal and establish. Saint Paul also is charged with high Uncharitableness by t…

And thus we shall make the Holy Scripture contradict itself: Or if we endeavor to accommodate and reconcile these seeming oppositions, upon a supposition that Christ in the language of my text preached the Gospel, it can never be done, with fairness and justness of thought, with…

Well then, in regard of the first enemy of our salvation, the Devil, we had need pray earnestly, that we may not be prevailed over by his arts; 'tis God alone that can keep us. Second, the world, that's another evil, which is as it were the Devil's chess-board; we can hardly mov…

But particularly, how will God perform the parts of a Father? 1. In allowing them full leave to come to him in all their necessities, (Galatians 1:6) Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father: there is a Spirit that att…

As long as God has work for us to do, he will maintain life and strength. Galatians 1:15: Who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace. The decree takes date from the womb.

Voluptuousness says, You need not be so strict, and nice, and abridge yourselves of the comforts of the world. Paul says (Galatians 1:16), I conferred not with flesh and blood. Flesh and blood are evil counselors, and under pretense of safety will suggest what is for our ruin.

Well then, 1. Press God about this, not only to grant his word to the Church, but to grant it to you, to your persons; To reveal his Son in me (Galatians 1:16). There is a general benefit, He has shown his word to Jacob, and his statutes to Israel (Psalm 147:19).

We must entirely give up ourselves to the direction of his word. As many as walk according to this rule (Galatians 1:16), we are not to walk as we please. There is a fixed determinate rule, which must be kept with all accurateness and attention; a godly man is very tender of bre…

But such as he were not acquainted with the workings of the Holy Ghost in conversion, and therefore scoff at these things. So (Galatians 1:16): Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. When our call is clear, there needs no debate.

3. Consult not with the flesh as a friend in the case, when your heart begins to work towards God. Galatians 1:16: "Immediately I consulted not with flesh and blood." It is notable, the word signifies to lay down a burden, to lay down our cares and difficulties in a friend's bos…

(Romans 14:23). He that doubts, is condemned if he eat, because he eats not of faith: for whatever is not of faith, is sin: nor according to the wills of men. (Galatians 1:10). For, do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men?

One eminent place instead of many others is in (Isaiah 53:5): He was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. To this the Apostles bear witness in the New Testament (Galatians…