Galatians 3

Sin lives in a child of God, but it is deposed from the throne, it lives not as a king but a captive. 3. A believer is redeemed à Maledictione, from the curse due to sin (Galatians 3:13): Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Christ said to…

While we are in the state of nature, we see nothing but the flaming sword; and as the Apostle says (Hebrews 10:27), there remains nothing but [illegible], a fearful looking for of fiery indignation. Second, while children of wrath, we are heirs to all God's curses (Galatians 3:1…

Quest. What is the Organical or Instrumental Cause of Adoption? Resp. Faith interests us in the privilege of adoption (Galatians 3:26). You are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Quest. 2. What use is there of the moral law to us? Resp. The law is a glass to show us our sins, that so seeing our pollution and misery, we may be forced to fly to Christ to satisfy for former guilt, and save from future wrath (Galatians 3:24). The law was our schoolmaster to…

Quest. 3. What is that which makes God our Father? Resp. Faith: (Galatians 3:26) You are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. An unbeliever may call God his Creator, and his Judge, but not his Father.

Man having sinned, is like a favourite turned out of the king's favor, and deserves the wrath and curse of God. (1.) God's curse, (Galatians 3:10). As when Christ cursed the fig-tree, it withered (Matthew 21:19).

1. The form of the first covenant in innocence, was working; Do this and live. Working was the ground and condition of our justification (Galatians 3:12). Not but that working is required in the Covenant of Grace: we are bid to work out salvation, and be rich in good works.

To show that Christ must die and be slain before he can be an intercessor. 3. Christ by dying had not purchased forgiveness for us, if he had not died an execrable death, he endured the curse (Galatians 3:13). All the agonies Christ endured in his soul, all the torments in his b…

Seventhly, that this love was the same in Father and Son, acted distinctly in the manner that shall be afterwards declared; so vain are the pretences of men who from the love of the Father in this matter, would argue against the love of the Son; or on the contrary. Eighthly, tha…

There must be no debts standing out, no arrearages unpaid: for upon the presumption that there be many perfectly good deeds done, yet if there be other deeds that have been faults, or faulty, the Law will not bate them. If a man has kept the Law in every other point but one, and…

And this he did virtually in the sacrifice of himself, or the blood of his Cross, fulfilling and finishing of them all (John 19:30), breaking down the middle wall of partition, abolishing in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of Commandments contained in ordinances, blotting out…

Q. What is that covenant of works? A. That whereby God promises all life and happiness, upon condition of perfect obedience to the law in a man's own person, with a threatening of everlasting death and cursedness for the least transgression (Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:10; Genesis…

Thus the believing Galatians, especially some of them, were so far 'bewitched' (as his word is) as for a time to assent to that great error in point of justification. And this by reason of that folly and darkness which remained in them, as he intimates when he says: 'O you fooli…

For as 'where the word of a king is, there is power,' says Solomon (Ecclesiastes 8:4), so where the word of God is, there is the power of God, and so is it here to be understood. And therefore as in other Scriptures his word is said to create, and by it the heavens to be establi…

Romans 10:4. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes. Galatians 3:22. The Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given to them that believe. With the promise there is joined an exhortation,…

Secondly, Abraham inherited Canaan in his posterity. For though God promised it to himself, when he was 75 years old, Genesis 12:4, and to him and to his seed, Genesis 15:7: Yet neither he nor his immediate seed enjoyed it, but his posterity the Israelites, 430 years after the p…

But we must take a better course: and when we hear of the promises of God made unto us in Christ; we must not content ourselves with a bare knowledge of them, but labour to believe them, and apply them unto ourselves, to our souls, and consciences: and so by faith make them our…

The furniture of this spiritual house of the New Testament, whereof Jesus the Christ is the King, Priest, and Prophet, is a priesthood, sacrifice, and an altar; but all spiritual. First, the priests, whether they be male or female, they are all one in Christ (Galatians 3:28). Ye…

There be many conditional promises in the Gospel, which are made to the gifts and duties of sanctification; which are all in vain, if poor drooping souls, finding such gifts, and duties of sanctification in themselves, may not take comfort from them, according to the promise. Th…

First, we do believe, that in our effectual calling, God draws us to union with Christ (John 6:44), shedding abroad his Spirit in our hearts (Romans 5:5), and working faith in us to receive Christ (John 1:12, 13), and to live by faith upon him (Galatians 2:20). Secondly, we are…

Then when he gives him precious faith; for that only distinguishes him from the world that lies in sin. (Galatians 3:22) The Scripture concludes (father, mother, son, daughter, no the infant that is born of the most holiest parents) all under sin, that the promise by the faith o…

For all the people were in some sense put under the curse; namely, so far as they would seek for righteousness by the works of the Law. So says our Apostle, As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse (Galatians 3:10). This curse was plainly and openly denounced a…

And the whole of this System of Laws, is called ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩ a Command, because it consisted ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩, in arbitrary commands and precepts, regulated by that maxim; The man that does these things shall live by them (Romans 10:5). And therefore the Law, a…

For as our Apostle speaketh, if they which are of the Law be heirs, faith is made void (Romans 4:14); and if righteousness come by the Law, then is Christ dead in vain (Galatians 2:21). And if there had been a Law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness should h…

This, I confess, does not appear at first view to be to the advantage of the Apostle's design, namely, that this Oath was after the Law. For in another place he expressly argues on the other hand, that what is first in such cases has the preeminence; and cannot be disannulled by…

This was done by Christ alone, who was therefore the [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] of this covenant, and all the grace of it. See (2 Corinthians 5:19, 20; Galatians 3:13, 14; Romans 3:25). 2. No restipulation of obedience to God could be made by man, that might be a ground of ente…

1. That to the office of a Mediator, it is required that there be different persons concerned in the Covenant, and that by their own wills, as it must be in every compact of what sort soever. So says our Apostle, A Mediator is not of one, but God is one (Galatians 3:20); that is…

The making of a new for no other ends or purposes but what the old was every way sufficient for, argues lightness and mutability in him that made it. To this purpose does he argue (Galatians 3:21), if there had been a Law given, that could have given life, verily righteousness s…

And the Apostle has respect to what he had discoursed about the promise of God, and the confirmation of it by his oath (chapter 6:15, 16, 17, 18). So he declares it also (Galatians 3:18). The promise made to Abraham and confirmed by the oath of God, was concerning the eternal in…

And by the various ways whereby God cherished their faith and hope was he glorified in all ages (Luke 1:70; Matthew 13:16; Luke 10:24; 1 Peter 1:10, 11; Haggai 2:7). (3.) To prepare the Church for the reception of him, partly by the glorious representation made of him in the Tab…

The Law required obedience, and threatened the curse in case of disobedience. With respect to the obedience which it required, Christ was the Ark in whom it was fulfilled; and with respect to the curse of the Law, he was the mercy-seat or propitiation whereby atonement was made,…

By the word he wrought internally on the minds and consciences of men, and by these miraculous gifts he turned the thoughts of men to the consideration of what was preached, by what in an extraordinary manner was objected to their external senses. And this was not confined to a…

The incarnation of the Son of God promised from the foundation of the world, shall be fulfilled in your seed, he shall take on him the seed of Abraham. So our Apostle argues (Galatians 3:16): Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says not to seeds as of many, bu…

A Testament, [in non-Latin alphabet], is of force, say we; that is, firm, stable, not to be disannull'd. For if it be but a mans Testament, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto (Galatians 3:15). It is ratified, made unalterable, so as that it must be e…

From there is [in non-Latin alphabet], mediatorem ago, pacificatoris partes ago, to interpose a mans self by any means to confirm and establish peace, which was here done, [in non-Latin alphabet], with an Oath. The word is used in this place only in the New Testament, as [in non…

For the generality of the seed of Abraham rejected the Promise also, whereby it appeared really to have been frustrated, and to be of none effect, as our Apostle declares in his answer to that objection (Romans 9:6). But instead of changing his purpose, God then more fully disco…

And this choice of a spokesman on their part, God did approve of, ver. 27. Hence he became in a general sense a [in non-Latin alphabet], a Mediator between God and men in the giving of the law (Galatians 3:19). Whatever therefore was done by Moses in this whole affair of the ded…

Some assert Moses to have been the Surety of the Old Testament. For so it is said, that the Law was given by the Disposition of Angels in the hand of a Mediator (Galatians 3:19). That is, of Moses; whom the People desired to be the internuncius between God and them (Exodus 20:19…

And, (1.) The notion of the word includes in it a supposition of some evil or danger that we are delivered from. This is sin with its consequents of misery, in the curse of the law and the wrath to come; therefore it is said of Christ that he saves his people from their sins (Ma…

In the first, there are to be considered, (1.) The note of connexion in the adversative particle [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩]: (2.) There is the qualification of the person spoken of, he is the just. (3.) The means of his being so, or of his obtaining the event mentioned, which i…

That which is asserted of these believing Hebrews is, that they belonged to another state that had another event. (1.) This state is, that they were of the faith, so our Apostle uses this expression (Galatians 3:7, 8). That is true believers, and heirs of the promises.

The answer which the Apostle gives with respect to the Law in general, may be applied to the sacrifices of it, with a small addition from a respect to their special nature. For as to the Law, he answers two things: (1.) That it was added because of transgressions (Galatians 3:19…

(2) That all these Priviledges do consist in certain especial operations of the Holy Ghost, which were peculiar to the Dispensation of the Gospel, such as they neither were, nor could be made partakers of in their Judaisme. For the Spirit in this sense, was not received by the w…

That they were so is certain, but he speaks of it, as of a thing which they knew full well: you that never knew and felt your spiritual death, have none of this spiritual life: you have it may be had convictions, and that many and great also; and you have been wounded much, but…

Brag not therefore, says he, that you are baptized, as though that were sufficient for you, to inherit the kingdom of heaven. As for the place of Paul, Galatians 3, I showed plainly before, how D. Andreas did violently wrest it to his purpose. Neither are his reasons taken from…

Some do place faith in the mind, and partly in the will, because it has two parts; knowledge, and affiance: but it seems not greatly to stand with reason, that one particular and single grace should be seated in diverse parts or faculties of the souls. The form of faith is, to a…

3. Seeming and unsound grace; as false faith, such as beginneth in joy will end in trouble; it easeth you for the present, but you shall lie down in sorrow: General probabilities, loose hopes, uncertain conjectures, vanishing apprehensions of comfort, all these things soon come…

Objection. Remission of sins, regeneration, and salvation is ascribed to the sacrament of baptism in Acts 22:16, Ephesians 5, Galatians 3:27, and Titus 3:5. Answer: Salvation and remission of sins is ascribed to baptism and the Lord's Supper as to the word, which is the power of…

And as the body has its hand, mouth, and stomach, whereby it takes, receives, and digests food for the nourishment of every part: so likewise in the soul there is a faith, which is both hand, mouth, and stomach to apprehend, receive, and apply Christ and all his merits for the n…

Bernard: Whoever is pricked for his sins and thirsts after righteousness, let him believe in you, who justifies the sinner, and being justified by faith alone, he shall have peace with God. Chrysostom on Galatians 3: They said, he which rests on faith alone, is cursed: but Paul…