Galatians 6

As the birds though they light upon the ground to pick up a little seed, yet immediately they take their wings and fly up to Heaven again: so the redeemed of the Lord, though they use the world, and take the lawful comforts of it, yet their hearts are presently off these things,…

And as faith rests on Christ's person, so on his person under this notion, as he was crucified. Faith glories in the cross of Christ (Galatians 6:14). To consider Christ as he is crowned with all manner of excellencies, does rather stir up admiration and wonder; but Christ looke…

Saint Paul had tasted these divine joys, and his mouth was out of taste for worldly things. The world was crucified to him (Galatians 6:14) — it was like a dead thing; he could find no sweetness in it. 4. Spiritual joys are more pure; they are not tempered with any bitter ingred…

4. Walk closely with God. Peace flows from purity (Galatians 6:16). As many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them: In the text, grace and peace are put together.

3. He who loves God, is not much in love with any thing else; his love is very cool to worldly things; his love to God moves as the sun in the firmament swiftly, his love to the world moves as the sun on the dial, very slow: the love of the world eats out the heart of religion:…

Answer: It concerns us to examine this; our salvation depends upon it; and we had need be careful in the search, because there is something that looks like grace which is not. Galatians 6:3: If a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Many th…

5. We show honor to our Heavenly Father by suffering dishonor, indeed, death for his sake. Saint Paul did bear in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus (Galatians 6:17). As they were marks of honor to him, so trophies of honor to the Gospel.

Labor to be new creatures. Nothing else will avail us (Galatians 6:15). Neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Now to be a bone-setter is not every man's skill; it requires special art and cunning and a gentle hand — that is, meekness and pity — which are never truly natural except when we have tasted the like or may fear the like. The apostle commands that those who are spiritual restor…

But others who stir not up themselves, God rouses and stirs up with terrors. 'He that walks according to this rule, peace be on him' (Galatians 6:16) — not otherwise. Though comfort is not always the immediate necessary fruit of righteousness, yet it is never without it.

They departed from the council, rejoicing in that they were counted worthy to suffer affliction for his name. And Saint Paul brags hereof greatly, saying; I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus, Galatians 6:17. And look, as these servants of God rejoiced in their sufferin…

Let us learn here, to hold on in a good course, when we have entered into it; for constancy and continuance is the true commendation: he that dieth in faith, is he that receives the crown. To this end, let us stir up ourselves, with the Apostle's exhortation, Galatians 6.9, Let…

Revelation 14:13. Blessed are they which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works follow them. Galatians 6:10. While we have time let us do good to all men. Where we may note that there is a time, namely after death, when we cannot do good to others.

What wretches then shall we be, if we suffer our hearts to be filled with earthly delights, and in the mean season have little or no desire to behold with the eyes of our mind this goodly spectacle that is to be seen in the passion of Christ, that serves to revive and refresh ou…

Again, works are to be done in regard of men: that our neighbor may be helped in worldly things — Luke 6:38; that he may be won by our example to godliness — 1 Peter 3:14; that we may prevent in ourselves the giving of any offense — 1 Corinthians 10:32; that by doing good we may…

These are your seed time, and what you sow in your duties in this world, you must look to reap the fruit of in another world. Galatians 6:7-8: 'If you sow to the flesh, of that you shall reap corruption; but if to the Spirit, life everlasting.' O my soul, answer seriously: would…

Nor (2.) need they pray, Lead us not into temptation. Nor (3.) need they bear in meekness, the overtaken weak ones, who trip and stumble unawares, considering lest they also be tempted (Galatians 6:1). (4.) The faith of the strongest is not full moon, or incapable of growing (Ph…

Position 2. The Scripture and all the ordinances are but created things, and not the ultimate object of our faith, and highest and completest love, that is reserved to God in Jesus Christ. Indeed, the most perfect we read of, Paul a chosen vessel stood in need of comfort from Ti…

2. Here is fullness of power, to reconcile to himself all things, whether they be things in heaven, or things on earth, by the blood of his cross; here we are made Christ's friends, to do whatever he commands us (Colossians 1:20; John 15:15). 3. Nor is there a stronger band or c…

Oh when shall I come, and appear before him? this is such a longing desire, when a man wants Christ; As that it is called, hunger and thirst (Matthew 5), such a desire as cannot be satisfied, but with meeting with that which the soul does hunger and thirst for; give a hungry man…

And therefore the servants of God have been content to lose all that they had, and willing to resign up all for the maintaining the integrity of their spirits, and the purity of their hearts and lives in the presence of God, and then let all go, they can suffer the spoil of all…

Take it in their outward condition in the world, an estate of means, and affliction; if he be a man of a fair outward estate, and of good means in the world, yet you shall see a marvelous spirit of self-denial in him, so as that in the midst of many worldly comforts, he fits loo…

Meaning dead to all these earthly things, and all the comforts here below, they are not our life, but our life is hid with Christ in God; and therefore to this world are we dead. And Paul therefore so speaks of it (Galatians 6:14): The world is crucified to me, and I to the worl…

Who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sin should live to righteousness. Then glory in it (Galatians 6:14): God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.…

Diverse things seen in one view do more surprise us, than if viewed by a leisurely contemplation: alas! We are sometimes overcome by the violence of a temptation, sometimes overtaken by the suddenness of it (Galatians 6:1). Brethren, if one be overtaken in a fault — inconsiderat…

And he says not: of whom I travail in birth until my form be fashioned in you, but until Christ be formed in you: that is to say, I travail that you may receive again the form and likeness of Christ, and not of Paul. In which words he again reproves the false apostles: for they…

And therefore in his reproof he does two things. First, he reproves them with meekness, and tenderness of heart, following his own rule (Galatians 6:1), for he might justly have said, you may be ashamed, that you are removed to another Gospel, but he says only, I marvel, that is…

God's service and kingdom, stands in justice, peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost (Romans 14:17). He that is in Christ must not know him in any carnal respects, but be a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:17). Baptism is not the washing of the spots of the…

Now these words [which is a sign in every Epistle] cannot be meant (as some are of opinion) of the former words only, namely, The salutation of me Paul with my own hand. First, because he says, it is a sign in every Epistle, whereas it is only to be found, 1 Corinthians 16:21, G…

And we daily behold how they burn, drown, and hang the servants of Jesus Christ, whose death nonetheless is precious and blessed in God's sight. For even as the Cross of our Lord was blessed; so also the gibbets, bonds, chains and deaths which his members endure do partake of th…

The like, by as good right, is to be said of all the Ministers of the Church. Moreover, in as much as all the faithful, of whatever condition they be, belong to the sanctuary of the Lord, and are made one royal Priesthood by Christ, to dwell before him: I willingly refer these w…

Again, many are too greedy, like horse-leeches, that still suck in other men's blood. Yet let us often and always bear in mind what Saint Paul says, (Galatians 6:9) to wit, that we shall reap in due season if we faint not. For the Lord exhorts us not to such a kind of liberality…

So highly does our heavenly Father value the salvation of men, that whatever contributes to it he chooses to place to his own account. That we may not become weary in doing well, (Galatians 6:9,) Christ declares that the labor of those who are faithfully employed in their callin…

And although the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, which natural Men might have, are sometimes called spiritual, because they are from the Spirit; yet, natural Men, whatever Gifts of the Spirit they had, were not, in the usual Language of the New Testament, called spiritual Per…

The outward Administration of this Ordinance considered materially, reaches no farther, but to the washing away of the filth of the Flesh, but more is signified thereby. There is denoted in it the Restipulation of a good Conscience to God, by the Resurrection of Christ from the…

This is plainly enough testified to in the Scripture. By his Cross, that is, his Death on the Cross, We are crucified to the world, Gal. 6. 14. Our old man is crucified with him, that the Body of sin might be destroyed, Rom. 6. 6.

Remembrance is of things and persons which are absent; remember them, though you see them not, though absent from you, yet make their case as present; be as bound with them, be as afflicted with them, yes, hasten into their presence. Bear one another's burdens (Galatians 6:2). R…

Wait with courage and resolution that you faint not. And the apostle puts the blessed Event of faith and obedience upon the avoidance of this evil, Galatians 6:9. We shall reap if we faint not.

Paul,He that prouids not for his own, a[]d namely for them of his houshold, is worse then an insidell: whence this order may be obserued, that I. a man must give to them that be of his own houshold and family: II. to his own blood, kinred, and alliance: III. unto strangers. The…

We shall see the practise of this in the word of God, Abigail obserued a fit time to reprooue her husbād for his churlish answer to Dauids servants, and therefore told him not of it till his feast of sheep-shearing was ended, & the wine gone out of his head. 3. The maner of our…

Secondly; they owe to them the honor of maintenance. So (Galatians 6:6): Let him that is taught in the Word, communicate to him that teaches, in all good things. And there is good reason for it: For if we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap yo…

Thus, I say, by reflecting on ourselves, we shall be withheld from being injurious in our censures, and in our reports of others; we shall hardly divulge their real miscarriages, much less accuse and slander them with false and forged ones. This is the Apostle's rule (Galatians…

An exact life will not make, but keep conscience quiet; an easy shoe heals not a sore foot, but keeps a sound one from crushing. Walking with God according to gospel rules has peace entailed upon it, and that peace is such a treasure, as thereby a Christian may have his rejoicin…

The world cannot alter the joy or sadness of the heart. A through-paced, well-tried child of God has his rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another (Galatians 6:4). It is a peddling, beggarly life to wander abroad for morsels, but that is a noble kind of living, when a man h…

As we say of a dying man, he is not a man for this world. A true saint is crucified in his affections to the world (Galatians 6:14). He is dead to the honors and pleasures of it.

The same Word is used in 2 Corinthians 8:8. To PROVE the Sincerity of your Love. So, Galatians 6:3, 4. If any Man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself: But let every Man PROVE his own Work. —In all these Places there is the same Word in the Gre…

APPLICATION. Translate this into spirituals, and the proposition shadowed forth by it, is fully expressed by the Apostle (Galatians 6:7). What a man sows, that shall he reap; they that sow to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; and they that sow to the spirit, shall o…

Indeed it is older than that, for it is a long time since Abel first took up the cross and had it laid upon his shoulders, and down from him all along to this very day all the saints have known what it is. I am glad that Christ has such a relation to this cross, and that it is c…

Some people love to be cross-grained, and take a pleasure in displeasing, and especially contrive to provoke those whom they find passionate and easily provoked, that (as he that gives his neighbor drink, and puts his bottle to him (Habakkuk 2:15-16)) they may look upon his sham…

1. We must give reproofs with meekness. It is the apostle's direction (Galatians 6:1): if a man be overtaken in a fault (that is, if he be surprised by a temptation and overcome, as the best may be, if God leave them to themselves) you which are spiritual, restore such a one in…