...equally applied to the case of every beKever : « I do not, (says he,) frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.' My heart rejoiced in the consolation. ' God be adored, I cried, who hath brought me to this place,...

..." revived and I died;"3 where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt : and he adds, t' If " righteousness come by the law, then Christ is *' dead in vain ;" which equally holds good of the moral as of the ritual law. — (l As many as are of the " works...

...necessity. The necessity of the atonement of Christ, is clearly taught also by the apostle, Gal. ii. 21. " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." It is to no purpose to pretend that the law, in this passage, means the ceremonial law ; because he...

...do. What need, therefore, upon your scheme, was there of Christ ? And did he not die in vain ? For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal ii. xxi, J«iow, can your faith in Christ be any more than a mere jancy, when, as it is evident,...

...life, verily righteousness should have been by the law." " I do not frustrate the grace of God, for, if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," Gal. ii. 21. However, if you have a mind to smite, you may. You may get fire from the law, though you...

...been for this, the death of an incarnate God had been entirely needless. For thus heaven has declared, if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Well therefore might the holy apostle sum up the whole of the glorious Gospel in one word, We preach...

...given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have bten by the law °. And he grants, that if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain P. Which positions, the Gentile might e Gal. iii. 21. p Gal. ii. 21. have laid hold of, and turned...

...the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 2 1 I do not frustrate the grace of God ; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. PARAPHRASE. and live acceptably to him in his kingdom, which lie has £0 now set up under his Son....

...would be superseded altogether ; hence the ApOstle says *, " I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." — " The whole need not a physician, but them that are sick ;" and experience proves, that Jesus is...

...righteousness in the following texts means neither more nor less than justification. Gal. ii. 21 ;" " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Chap. iii. 21 : " If there had been a law which could have given life, (spiritual life, or a title...