...written, behold, I Paul, say unto you, that if ye be eircumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing *. Christ is become of no effect unto you ; whosoever of you are justifed by the lure, ye are jalien from grace'. Not that circumcision, simply and in itself, proved...

...debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified 5 by the law ; ye are fallen from grace. For we through...Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which...

...18. *' If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall Rve ;" Rom. viii. 18. " We through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ;" Gal. v. 5. *» God hath from tbe beginning chosen you to salvation through the sanctification uf...

...son ;h for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. feet unto yon, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from graee. 3t So then, brethren, we are not ehildren of the bond-woman, but of the free. 5 For we through...

...believer, one who " believes with the heart unto righteousness," can say with fervour and sincerity, " We, through the spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith," — not indolently, however, but remembering, as John says, that " he that doeth righteousness is righteous,...

...the death of Christ, and struck off from the scheme of redemption all the doctrines of the cross. " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." The apostle's whole scope, in this,...

...you nothing. For I testify unto every man that is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you. Whosoever...are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace." It is plain, that he is here speaking of such as expected to be justified by the law; who embraced...

...the Holy Ghost." Again to the Galatians, how does he describe the state of mind of a Christian ? " we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." Again : another impediment to the thought of religion is the faculty and the habit we have acquired...

...for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." (Gal. ii. 16.) And again: (p. 73, /. 21.) " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace." (Gal. v. 4.) — The epistle, from which all these texts are taken, was written against the Judaizers,...

...3. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." By grace, I should understand that spiritual life within us, which, if maintained, will issue in Eternal...