...is needless in that respect ; according to the apostle's reasoning, Gal. v. 4. " Christ is rendered of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law." Doubtless, it is Christ's prerogative to be our Saviour in that sense wherein he is our Saviour : And...

...distinguishing and fundamental doctrine of the gospel. The apostle writes to the churches of Galatia, " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace." By placing dependence on their own works for salvation, they rejected the gospel of the grace of God....

...by faith. The law.was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Christ is become of no effect unto you, •whosoever...are justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace : for we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith (b). ' What is the Law, concerning...

...sole motive in urging the Galatians to be cifcumcis«d, was, as the apostle in the passage just now 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ, neither...

...your own works ; and therefore ye are yet without the Mediator ; "Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace," Gal. v. 4. When God will enter into judgment with you, consider whether all your works will then justify you....

...vain." iv. 11, 12. " I desire to be present with you now, for I stand in doubt of you." iv. 20. ** Behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that, if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." v. 2. " This persuasion cometh not of him that called you." v. 8. This is the style in which he accosts...

...will appear if we consider what God says of circumcision, that it binds a man to keep the whole law: " I Paul say unto you that, if ye be circumcised, Christ...circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." But God has delivered us from the galling yoke; and it is tempting God to gall a believer's neck with...

...into them. For as many as are of the works of the law arc under the curse. Christ is become of none effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace." The meaning of the two last mentioned texts plainly is, that those who expect justification by works,...

...discipline, but •that of ' ..circumcision, and the ritual law. For thus it immediately follows — Behold I, Paul, say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. And, again, he reminds them — Brethren, ye have been called into liberty — that is, into freedom...

...which Spirit" the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him." " I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." God shall justify the circumcision through faith. " For every man shall bear his own burden." " We...