Galatians 2

First. To me to live is Christ; [in non-Latin alphabet]. We must understand Paul of a spiritual life. To me to live is Christ, that is, Christ is my life; so Greg. Nyssen. Or thus, my life is made up of Christ. As a wicked man's life is made up of sin; so Paul's life was made up…

1. There is life. Faith is principium vivens, it is the vital artery of the soul (Galatians 2:20). The life that I live in the flesh, is by the faith of the Son of God.

The saints of old had it (1 John 2:3): We know that we know him. 2 Timothy 1:12: I know whom I have believed; here was Sensus Fidei, the reflex act of faith; and (Galatians 2:20) Christ has loved me. Here was faith flourishing into assurance.

Galatians 2:20. The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of GOD. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us.

But he would not break a commandment to gratify any. When God's glory lay at stake, who more resolute than Paul (Galatians 2:5)? The three children were humble; they gave the king his title of honor; but they were not sordidly timorous.

Which shows there are two sorts of corruptions, one of the flesh, the other of the spirit; when we grieve for, and combat with spiritual sin, (as being the root of all gross sins) now the kingdom of grace increases, and spreads its territories in the soul. 4. Then the kingdom of…

Faith has a two-fold act, an adhering and an applying. By the first act we go over to Christ, by the second act we bring Christ over to us (Galatians 2:20). This is the great grace we must set to work (Acts 10:43).

We must walk by faith, and not by sight, says the Apostle, 2. Corinthians 5.7. So says he of himself, Galatians 2.20. I live by the faith in the Son of God: he says not, he hopes to die in that faith, but he lives by it.

Oh then esteem the righteous as most worthy, because of their intrinsic holiness, whereby they outshine their neighbors. The righteous carry Christ about them (Galatians 2:20). Christ lives in me.

For the first — by the privilege of authority I mean a preeminence in regard of estimation, whereby he was had in reverence above the rest of the twelve Apostles. For Cephas with James and John are called pillars and seemed to be great (Galatians 2:6, 9). Again he had the preemi…

Reason 1. The faith whereby we live, is that faith whereby we are justified: but the faith whereby we live spiritually, is a particular faith whereby we apply Christ to ourselves, as Paul says (Galatians 2:20): I live, that is, spiritually, by the faith of the Son of God: which…

Love never that faith that hungers not after the Word, that is supposed to be lively without being ever fed by the Word, that cannot claim either its rise and original, or its growth from the Word; I will not say from this or that word in particular, or at this or that time read…

The point might have also use for confirmation, but we do not follow these. 2. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, that is our griefs and sorrows who are his elect, his people, his seed, who flee to him for refuge, and are justified by his knowledge, or by f…

For as the Apostle says (2 Corinthians 6): Behold now is the day of salvation, behold now is the accepted time; and (Hebrews 2:2): If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, how shall we escape if we…

It's that which cheers and delights them most, that Christ has stepped in and engaged to do that for them, which neither themselves nor any other person or thing could do. The life (says the Apostle, Galatians 2) that I now live in the flesh, is by the faith of the Son of God, w…

Who has made you to differ, and what have you, but what you have received? It sets you well therefore to be humble, and to put a price upon Christ, as the Apostle does on the same consideration (Galatians 2:20). When he says, Who loved me and gave himself for me — that makes Him…

And (Chapter 4:5): To him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness; which place demonstrates this, that an ungodly person, taking hold by faith of Christ's righteousness, may be, and is justified, and absolved, and fr…

(Ephesians 2:8) By grace are you saved, through faith. See more fully to this purpose, (Galatians 2:16) where the Apostle designedly as it were, sets himself to confirm this truth; for speaking of the way, how sinners come to be justified, and as it were entering in the debate,…

Though none of these acts can well be said to be before, or after the other in respect of time. For clearing of this a little more, consider that this resting may be looked on, either passively, or actively; passively, in respect of the believer's acquiescing in Christ, and assu…

We may confirm this either as to the positive part, that by believing a sinner is justified, or as to the negative part, that there is no other way possible whereby a sinner can be justified, but by believing; so that this great effect follows from a sensible sinner's taking hol…

If Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory, but not before God, for what says the Scriptures? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness, now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt, but to him that works not, but…

3. We seek only the evidence of justification in our holy walking; as the Scripture does, (1 Peter 1:24; Galatians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 John 3:14). Countless places say, these that live to Christ, and are new creatures must be in Christ, and justified, (2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Cor…

(1 Corinthians 15:10) By the grace of God, I am that I am. (Galatians 2:20) I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me, etc. There is a great deceitfulness in our heart, in the matter of performed conditions, so soon as we have performed a…

It is true, the word, the works of God, are not the principal object of faith, nor objectum quod; faith rests only on God, and the Lord Jesus (John 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:8). Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3…

2. It's a blasphemous comparison to say the gracious good will of God to choose men to glory, and the highest and most matchless love of Christ (John 3:16; John 15:13; Ephesians 5:25-27; Acts 20:28; Titus 3:3-4) is but a common motive to induce us to pray for all men, and such b…

Secondly, we are not to rest in graces or duties; they all cannot satisfy our own consciences, much less God's justice. If righteousness could have come by these, then Christ had died in vain, as Galatians 2 last. What a dishonor were it to Christ that they should share any of t…

And now faith being such a shield, it is of mighty force, and is able to repulse all the fiery darts of the Devil, and all the rest of the enemies of their salvation, so that the servants of God, that know what use they have of their faith, they know they have need of the growth…

Doctrine. A faithful believer is not to hide his eyes from observing the sins and failings of his brethren. If any man see his brother sin a sin, he must observe him, else he cannot see him (Galatians 2:14). When I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of th…

How then? By the faith of the Son of God (Galatians 2:20). It is one of the most important points that concerns our Christian practice, and therefore I pray you consider it; the life of Christianity is not a life of wisdom and graces, but of faith: if you would have Christ live…

He would see a mighty increase of the grace of God in him, not that he might be more excellent than his neighbors, more eminent in gifts, and so be better than others, or so esteemed; but he desires that all his lusts may be swallowed up, and that the life of Christ might more m…

Secondly, that we have some respect to the Word of God for our warrant. Thirdly, that in all we do, we have respect to the glory of God in all our performances, I live by the faith of the Son of God (Galatians 2:20). The just shall live by his own faith.

(Philippians 2:7) He humbled himself, and became obedient to the death, even the death of the cross; this commends obedience to us. It was an act of love (Galatians 2:20): Who loved me and gave himself for me. (Revelation 1:5) To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in…

Receive no light either of reason, or of the law, or of anything else than of Christ alone. Then you shall be learned indeed, righteous and holy, and shall receive the Holy Spirit, which shall preserve you in the purity of the word and faith: but set Christ aside, and all things…

One, which James this was? Answer: It was James the son of Alpheus: for he lived 14 years after this (Galatians 2:9), whereas James the son of Zebedee lived not so long, because he was put to death by Herod. The second thing is, how James should be the Lord's brother?

In this respect we are said to be crucified with him. Gal 2:19. The second is, in vs, when Christ conuaies the vertue of his death into the hearts of them that are ioyned to him, for the causing and effecting of the death of sinne.

We are therefore to be circumspect and careful, lest we be supplanted. The Apostle admonishes us to take heed lest we be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:13), and, that we walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise (Ephesians 5:15), that we walk with a rig…

And so Paul, when he wishes powerfully to exhort believers to consecrate themselves to God, “in newness of life,” (Romans 6:4,) and, “putting off, concerning the former conversation, the old man,” (Ephesians 4:22,) to render to him a “reasonable service,” “beseeches them by the…

The Apostle Paul, through all his epistles, speaks in an assured strain; ever speaking positively of his special relation to Christ, his Lord and Master and Redeemer, and his interest in, and expectation of the future reward. It would be endless to take notice of all places that…

So that not only the Persons are called spiritual, as having the Spirit of God dwelling in them; but those Qualifications, Affections and Experiences that are wrought in them by the Spirit, are also spiritual, and therein differ vastly in their Nature and Kind from all that a na…

The Life of Faith and Spiritual Obedience by Jesus Christ, Rom. 1. 17. Gal. 2. 20. I live by the Faith of the Son of God, Rom. 6. 7. (2.) It is that Life which God workes in us, not Naturally by his Power, but Spiritually by his Grace; And that both as to the Principle and all t…

And all the Actings of Grace in him, all the Duties of Obedience which he performed, all that glorious Complyance with the Will of God in his Sufferings which he manifested, proceed all from his Love to us, Joh. 17. 19. Gal. 2. 20. These things being in themselves truely Honoura…

Section 4. Men may be subdued by the power of the law and compelled to a strict course of duty, and advantaged by a sedate natural constitution, desire of applause, self-righteousness, or superstition may make a great appearance of holiness — but if the principle of what they do…

The obedience of a Christian, so far as it is truly evangelical, and performed with the Spirit of the Son sent forth into the heart, has all relation to Christ the Mediator, and is but an expression of the soul's believing union to Christ: all evangelical works are works of that…

For indeed, this is that James that had his first residence at Jerusalem, as an ordinary Bishop, whom Paul in his first, and last coming to Jerusalem, found in the City; almost all the Apostles preaching in other places (Galatians 1:19), and that concluded those things, which we…

And when he says that Job would do it to his face, the meaning of it is, that he would do it openly: he will curse you openly, he will curse you boldly, he will not go behind the door to tell tales of you, but he will speak of it before all the world, that you are a cruel God, a…

That is, if things are to be tryed out and determined by the law, no sinner can obtain acquitment; as Paul declares the sense of that place to be, Romansans 3:20. Galatians 2:16. but yet, Fourthly, It may be the sentence of the law is not so fierce and dreadful, but that though…

David expresss his confidence of the love and favor of God unto his own soul hundreds of times. Paul does the same for himself, Galatians 2:20. Christ loved M E and gave himself FOR ME, 2 Timothy 4:8.

Here two points must be considered: I. what faith that is by which men must live in this world; namely, true iustifying faith, the very same by which they are to be saved in the day of the Lord. I live by faith (saith Paul) in the sonne of God, who has loued me, and given himsel…

Your self-righteousness charges God with the greatest folly, as though he has done all things in vain, even so much in vain, that he has done all this to bring about an accomplishment of that which you alone, a little worm, with your poor polluted prayers, and the little pains y…

Jude verse 4. There are certain Men crept in unawares,—ungodly Men, turning the Grace of God into Lasciviousness. Galatians 2:4. False Brethren, unawares brought in. If it be said, these here spoken of were openly scandalous Persons and Heretics: I answer, they were not openly s…