of Fudas, Affs 1. 25, 26.) and Barnabas and Silas and others were. Paul faith he was ſent not of men, nor by men, that is, not meerly ; for he was alſo ſent by men to his particular Province, A#s 13. but he was b immediately ſent by Feſus Chriſt, as we read, As chap. g. and 26. 14, 15, 16, 17. of which alſo he gives us an account in this chap. ver. 15, 16, 17. (And by God the Father alſo, who (be ſaith) pu Chriſt from the dead. By this phraſe the Apoſtle doth not only aflert Chrift's ReſurreQion, and the influence of the Father upon his Re- {urre&ion, (though he roſe by his own power, and took up his own Life again, and was alſo quickned by the Spirit ;) but he alſo ſheweth a ſpecialty in his call to the Apoſtleſhip. As it differed from the call of Ordinary Miniſters, who are called by Men, (tho' their Mi- niſtery be not meerly of Men) ſo it differed from the call of the reft of the Apoſtles, being made by Chriſt not in his ſtate of humzlia- t/07, (as the twelve were called, Math. 10.) but in his ſtate of Ex-
* altation; after he was raiſed from the dead, and fate down on the
right hand of God.
2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the Churches of Galatia c.
c He writeth not only in his own name, but in the name of all thoſe other Chriſtians that were with him in the place where he now was; whether Rome or Corinth, or ſome other place, is uncertain :)
with whole conſent and privity probably he wrote, poſſibly at #heir inſtigation, and whoſe common conſent in that Doftrin of
Faith which he handleth, (as well as in other things about which he writeth) he here declareth. Some think that the Apofile for- bears the Term Saints, or Sandified in Chriſt Feſus, &c. commonly uſed in his other Epiſtles, becauſe of that Apoſtacy for wich he deſigned to reprove them ; but it is implyed in the Term Cu:s, Galatia was a large Country, and had in it many famous Cities; it was neither wholly Chriftian, nor yet ſuch, as to the mjrpin'; but there were in it ſeveral particular Congregations of Chriſtians which he calleth Churches, (every Congregation of Chriſtians uſing to meet together to Worſhip God, being a Church, a parti- cular Church, though all ſuch Congregations make up but one Uni- verſal Viſible Church.) Nor, being guilty of no 1dolat:y, though corrupted in ſome particular points of Do&rin, and thote of mv- ment, doth the Apoſtle deny them the name of Churches, though he ſharply rebuketh them for their Errors.
3 * Grace be to you, and peace from God the father, «yi, Phil. 1 d A common, as well as Religious and Chriftian form of faluta- Col. tion; P:4/s mark in every Epiſtle, and uſed by him without any 1 Thi variation, (except in his Epiſtles to Timothy and Titus, where he on- 1,211 ly adds Mer:y, &c.) the want of which, as alſo of his name, offers 1.
and from our Lord Jeſus Chriſt.
ſome grounds to doubt whether he wrote the Epiftle to the Hebrews. Paul had uſed it in the beginning of his Epiſtle to the Komars, and both the Epiſtles to the Corinthians; (ſee the Notes on _ I» 7+ x Cor. 1. 3. 2 Cor. 1. 2.) It teaches us in our common diſcourſes whether Epiſtolary or otherwiſe, to ſpeak to our Friends like Chrir ſtians, who underſtand and believe that Grace, Mercy and Peace from God, are the moſt deſirable good things. :
4 Who gave himſelf for our tins e, that he might deliver us from this preſent evil world f, according to the will of God and our Father g.
e Which Chriſt, though he was put to death by 711:tz and che —_ yet he was not compelled to die ; for Foy 10. 17. /* laid down is lif:, no Man took it from him. Sometimes it is {aid, Þ® died _ our Sins, as Kom. 5. $. ſometimes that he gave hinſef, (MEaNINg to death;) as in Eph. 5. 2, 25. 1 Tim. 2. 6. Tit. 2. 24. Þ& WAS Sf ven by his Father and he gave himſelf by his own free and ſponta” neous att. For our Sins, muſt be interpreted by other SCrIPLare® > there is the defe& of a word here, which the $9c!n7.t#15 Wor” have to be Remiſſim; others Expiztion (of which Remiſſun 1» ® conſequent.) Both doubtleſs are to be underſtood, and | ; thing more alſo, which is exprefſed in the following words Ol the Verſe. Remiſſion of Sins is granted to be the etect 9! __ Death of Chriſt, but not the primary and ſole cffett th-1e0' 3 but conſequential to the propitzation mentioned, Ag 5r :
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The R-demption, Fpre 1. 7. The Sarific? Zh. 10. 12. both which Texts ſhew the abſurdity of the S:cizz7 mms, in quoting thoſe Texts to favour their notion of Chrift's dyivg for the R-mif}mm of our Sins, without Siving the Juſtice of God ſarisfation ; And though ſome other Texrs mention Chrift's dying for our fins, without mention of ſuch Expiution, Propitiation, R:d-mption or S:itisf tion; yet they mufr b2 interpreted by the latitude of the end of Chriſt's death (ex-