DISCOURSE: 2049 THE GREAT OBJECT OF CHRIST’S COMING Galatians 1:4. _Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father_. THESE words are a part of an introductory prayer, with which St. Paul begins almost all his epistle... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2050 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE Galatians 1:8. _Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other Gosp... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2051 MEN-PLEASERS REPROVED Galatians 1:10. _Do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ_. IN the Churches of Galatia, great efforts were made, by Judaizing teachers, to “pervert the Gospel of Christ,” and to establish in its place a doctrine m... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2052 CONVERSION, AND ITS EFFECTS Galatians 1:15. _When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood_. GREAT were the trials which th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2053 GOD GLORIFIED IN HIS PEOPLE Galatians 1:23. _They had heard only, that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me_. THE account of men’s conversion to God is a very profitable subject of contemplation. It tends... [ Continue Reading ]