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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The right images of the New Testament, which we hold and acknowledge, are the doctrine and preaching of the Gospel, and all things that by the word of God pertain thereto. Galatians 3:1: Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth — to whom Jesus Christ was before…

For it was not the lot of any of those Primitive Christians (of whom the Holy Ghost here speaks this) [He has wrought us for this thing] that they should be in that manner changed, and so enter into glory: but the contrary. For they all, and all saints since for these 1600 years…

And, Cursed is euery one, that continueth not in all things, that are written in the booke of the law, to doe them. Gal. 3. 10. This Ground must be holden against the Church of Rome: who in her Case-diuinitie, vseth to pacifie the conscience, by teaching men, that sundrie of the…

The 1st is that of (2 Corinthians 5:21): He has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, which can be no other way expounded but of Christ's being made an offering and sacrifice for our sins; he not being a sinner himself,…

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…

2. We are so justified by Christ as Christ was made sin for us, now our sins became really Christ's, not that he was made the sinner inherently, that were blasphemous to be thought or spoken of; But he was reckoned the sinner, and was substitute in the room of sinners, as if he…

The second thing here, is the native effect or fruit of the Covenant, and that which the Prophet aims at; even to show how it came to pass that Christ suffered so much, because it was so covenanted, statute and ordained, because he was by a prior contrivance and contract substit…

So, having shown how it comes to pass that Christ suffered and suffered so much, and was brought so low under suffering; and having told that he was engaged to pay the Elect's debt, and that the Father had laid their iniquities on him; lest any might think that the Father would…

And there are three steps of this his judicial answering, 1. He gets the indictment of the Elect's debt put in his hand; though there was no guile in his mouth, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he laid on him the iniquity of us all, and for the iniquity of my people was he…

We may shortly take these two observations here for the confirmation of two articles of our faith; looking on it, first, as a prophecy, we may observe that our Lord Jesus was bound to suffer and die, it was prophesied of him that he should be cut off out of the land of the livin…

While it is said, For the transgression of my people was he cut off and stricken, it implies that Christ in his undertaking for the elect did oblige himself to undergo all these sufferings that were due to them, and even the suffering of a cursed death, which was the curse threa…

We wish it were not, but the truth is, it is hardly believed by men and women; consider therefore shortly these three things, and you will find it true. First, the certainty and peremptoriness of the curse that follows sin, as we may see (Galatians 3:10): cursed is everyone that…

It is answered, they are sinners, death and the curse are due to them; well, says He, I will take their debt on myself, I will pay their ransom by undergoing all that was due to them. He has redeemed us from the curse of the law (says the Apostle, Galatians 3:13), being made a c…

Thus it stood with you: you deserved to be shut out for ever from God, to have the sword of His justice awakened against you; and He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; and was content that the sword of justice should awake against Him…

1. The estate that the Elect are naturally lying in for whom Christ undertakes — they are naturally under sin, liable to the curse of God, for the transgressing of His law; which had said, The soul that sins shall die, and cursed is every one that continues not in all things wri…

1. The great benefit that flows from Christ's sufferings, and it is justification, which in a word is this much: to be absolved, acquitted, and set free from the guilt of sin, and from the curse of God, justifying here being opposed to condemning. So that when it is said, They s…

Many of us, alas, live as if we were never to be called to an account, and as if there were no tribunal that we were to appear before. Secondly, observe that all men and women, even the elect themselves, are naturally, and as in themselves obnoxious to condemnation, and liable t…

If so, then it must be a most dreadful thing not to believe. If you would know what is your condition, you may read it (John 3:18, 36): He that believes not is condemned already, and he shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him; and (Galatians 3:10): As many as are…

Where Christ lifted up, and as dying on the cross, is made the object of justifying faith; even as the brazen serpent lifted up was the object that they looked to, when they were stung, and cured. 2. It's also clear from the law's labeling and charging us for the debt of our sin…

There are several things that will fall to be cleared in the prosecuting of this, which we shall speak to shortly, for clearing of that question of the Catechism, what is justification? because this doctrine holds out the form of it, and deduces it in this order. 1. A sinner is…

Isaiah 53:11, Verse 11 — By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. The doctrine of justification through faith in Christ Jesus was accustomed to be much thought of among the people of God; it is called, in Galatians 3:8, the pr…

Second, when He is said to bear their iniquities; it imports a burdensome bearing, or His bearing of it with a weight, and that there was a weight in it, as it's said, verses 3 and 4: He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; surely he has born our griefs, and carried…

So in verse 8 it is said, He was cut off out of the land of the living, and for the transgression of my people was he stricken; that which is here called the bearing of iniquity, is there called being cut off and stricken for the transgression of his people; and this may be the…

(1 Corinthians 2:2) For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. (Galatians 3:1) O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among…

Indeed, the law was a severer teacher to awe the saints, in regard of the outward dispensation of ceremonies and legal strictness, keeping men as criminals in close prison until Christ should come. But imputation of Christ's righteousness, and blessedness in the pardon of sin, a…

1. Because God dwells in this humbled soul, then he must be justified and converted (Ephesians 3:17): that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. 2. This is a liver by faith, and so justified; the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:…

Grace is pia fraus, a holy deceit, that before the soul be aware, it is caught: and though that be spoken of Christ, (Song of Solomon 6:12) Before ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadab; yet it has truth in this, that 1. No unconverted man intends to be…

So (Genesis 12:3) In you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 22:18) If the meaning be that, without any figure or exception, all and every family be blessed in Christ, then shall I infer that, all the families of the earth, without exception, are justified b…

But we may observe that the first promise that was given was not a bare word simply promising forgiveness or other benefits which God would bestow, but it was a promise of Christ's person as overcoming Satan and purchasing those benefits: 'The seed of the woman shall break the s…

A cause, or a person that a man has suffered much for, according to the proportion of his sufferings, is one's love and zeal to it; for these do lay a strong engagement upon a man: because otherwise he loses the thanks and the honor of all that is already done and past by him. H…

What word of God was it, by which you were begotten? It is a general speech, that in (Romans 10:17). faith comes by hearing, and by the doctrine of faith preached, (Galatians 3:5). that is, the Gospel of faith; so that this is the point: there is some promise which being reporte…

The desert of sin is still the same, and the exactness of divine justice is still the same; and therefore what has been is a pledge and document of what may be, if we fall into like crimes. God is impartially and immutably just, he is but one (Galatians 3:20). God is one, always…

So at this day the Papists brag, that they call back those to the bosom of their mother the holy church, whom they deceive and seduce. Contrariwise, we glory not in your flesh, but we glory as touching your Spirit, because you have received the Spirit by our preaching (Galatians…