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Alatia, (to the Churches in which Country this Epiſtle is direfted) 1s by all agr now under the power of the Turks, and by them called Chiangarez Geograpkers rell us it ;s boun Weſt by Phrygia the greater, (now called Germian) Bithynia ( now called Beckſangel.) and Aſia On the South with Piſidia (now called Verſacgell) and Lycaonia (now called Cogn Eaſt with Cappadocia, (now called Amaſia.) Ard on the North with Paphlagonia (now called Bolli.) Country was anciently called Gallo-Grecia, from ſome Galls, who leaving their Country, and coming to inhabit there, ra; it that name. It had in it ſeveral Cities, among which Geographers reckou Ancyra, Synopa, Pompeiopolis, (j;r. diopolis, Nicopolis, Laodicea, to which alſo ſome count Antioch. When or by whoſe miniſtry this People firſt received the Goſpel, we do not read. Paul Travelled thither, AAs 16. 6. but was at that. time forbidden of the Holy G Preach there, but AQs 18. 23. it is ſaid, that when he had ſpent ſome time at Antioch, he departed and wen all the Country of Galatia, and Phrygia in order, ſtrengthning all the Diſcip
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that he was forbidden to Preach there, in which time, the Goſpel was planted, and Diſciples made in this Country,
At what time Paul wrote this Epiſtle to them is very uncertain; ſome think, that it was wrote much at the ſan tin, when the Epiſtle to the Romans was wrote (the Argument being much the ſame with that of that Epiſtle. ) Others think
it was written at Rome during his laſt Impriſonment, becauſe he ſaith, Ch. 6. 17. That he bare in his body the
Marks of the Lord Jeſus. Jr is manifeft that it was written at ſome diſtance of time after the
the Goſpel there, for the Enemy had had time to ſow Tares.
The Occaſion of writing it, was partly to reprove the members of this Church, for their Apoſt acy from the Do@ri,
the Goſpel, as to Juſtification ; partly to ſet them right again in it, and to vindicate himſelf from the Aſperſun; w; Tmputations which their falſe Teachers had caFt upon him, in order to their better ſucceſs with their new Dottrin, The new Dotrin brought in by theſe falſe Teachers, was the neceſſity of Circumciſion, and other works of the Law, as well as Faith in Chriſt, z order to the Juſtification of the Sinner before God; which they preſſed ray 1pon a politick, than any religious conſideration, as being the way to avoid that Perſecution which at that time attent,4 all Chriſtians : From which 1mputaution, thoſe who were Circumciſed, thongh alſo they profeſſed faith in Chriſt (1:4 themſelves. To buoy up themſelves they vilified the Apoſtle Paul to theſe Churches, as being no Apoſtle, one that hut learned all which he knew from James aud Peter, and John z yet varied from them as to his Doctrin and Pradice
yea from himſelf alſo.
The two fir Chapters of this Epiſtle are moſtly ſpent in the Apoſile's vindication of himſelf; proving himſelf t l a true Apoſtle, and not to have learned what he taught, from Peter or James or John, but that he had it by Revexion from Jeſus Chriſt. I» the two following Chapters he proves the Dottrin of Juſtification by Faith in Chriſt, (in qy- ſition to the Juſtification taught by theſe falſe Teachers, by the works of the Law,) by various Arguments. In th two laſt Chapters, he preſſeth their ſtanding faſt in the liberty wherewith Chriſt had made them free, rogether nih ſeveral other things, which are the common duties of all Chriſtians. Then cloſeth his Epiſtle, with praying Grace, Mercy and Peace, to be their, and all true Chriſtians Portion.
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After the Superſcription of the Epiſtle 5 the uſual ſalutation; and athankſ- gr wn; a f the Aooftt reproves the Churches of Galatia for rurning away from the Apoſtolick Dotrin, when as no other Dofrin, tho" Preached by an Angel, can be t0 Salvation, 6----10. This he learned not from Men, but from the Lord Chriſt bimſelf, which he proves by his firſt Zeal in Fudaiſm, 11----14. by bis wonderful Con- verſion and Calling to the Apoſtleſhipz and by his not conferring with other Apoſtles, but immediately journeyed to Arabia, and was not for many years known but by report to the Churches in Judea, 15---24.
1 T JAul an Apoſtle, not of men, neither by man a, but * by Jeſus Chriſt, and God, the Father, who raiſed him from the dead b.
4 The term Apoſtle in its native fignification ſignifieth no more than one ſent; in its Eccleſiaſtical uſe, it ſignifies one extraordina- rily ſent to Preach the Goſpel z of theſe ſome were ſent either more immediately by Chrift, (as the twelve were ſent, Matth. 10. 1. Mar. 2+ 14+ Luke 9. 1.) or more mediately, as Matthias (who
* was tent by the ſuffrage of the other Apoſtles to ſupply the place