CHAPTER XIII.

SELF-EXAMINATION.-CONCLUSION.

Recite the apostle's advice to self-examina

tion.

5. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates.

Recite also his farewell exhortation, and commendation to Divine assistance, in concluding this Epistle.

11. Finally, brethren, farewell! Be perfect; be of good comfort; be of one mind; live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

THE

EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO

THE GALATIANS.

CHAPTER I.

THE AUTHORITY OF PAUL'S MINISTRY.

How did the apostle Paul receive his authority to preach the Gospel ?

11. I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man. ·

12. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

15. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; I conferred not with flesh and blood.

CHAPTER II.

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.

What does the apostle Paul assert of the means of justification ?

15. We, who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ'; that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

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Are not those who are justified by faith, required to be devoted to a life of holiness?

19. I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

20. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

CHAPTER III.

ABRAHAM AN EXAMPLE TO BELIEVERS. PURPOSE OF THE LAW.

Are not true believers in Christ, blessed in like manner with Abraham ?

6. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7. Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Did the law in any way supersede the covenant with Abraham ?

17. The covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Wherefore then serveth the Law?

19. It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made.

24. Wherefore the law was our school-master, to bring us unto Christ.

Are not all mankind, without distinction, interested in the blessings of the Gospel?

28. There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

29. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

CHAPTER IV.

ADMONITION AGAINST SUPERSTITION. PERSECUTION.

In what manner did Paul expostulate with

the Galatian converts, because that after they had received the Spirit of God, they placed a dependence on superstitious observances ?

6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father!

9. But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage.

10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Must not the followers of Christ expect to endure persecution from the spirit of the world ? 28. Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise';

29. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

CHAPTER V.

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. THE WORKS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT.

Paul exhorted the Galatians to steadfastness What was his

in the liberty of the Gospel.

language?