...use of sovereign preventing grace is made by the apostle in his epistle to the Galatians : " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God." By this the apostle designed to teach them, not to glory over those who still remained in a heathen...

...that attachment which their adherents manifested to ceremonies. Galatians iv. 9, 10, 1 1, " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather, are known...of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Clements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and...

...God, could continue no longer than till Christ should come. He puts the pungent question to them, Now after that ye have known God, or rather are known...elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? It is evident that by these elements he means circumcision, and all the train of ccrmonies to which...

...Christ eame: 5 but Christ freed MS : 22 we are the sons of Abraham by the free wo'/irtn. 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,e whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times,...

...may grant to them. It appears that Paul was afraid of some of the timeservers in his day ; " But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known...elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Ye observe days, and months, aud...

...had, before they had heard of him and learned of him. Says the apostle to the Galatians : " But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known...turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements?" Gal. iv. 9- They have juster notions of the future state of recompenses, than others. Through Christ,...

...(Chap. iii. 3.) "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" (Chap. iv. 21.) "How turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ?" (Chap. iv. 9.) It cannot be thought extraordinary that St. Paul should resist this opinion with...

...fulfilment of outward ordinances : and such appears to have been the judgment of the apostle Paul. "But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known...how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereuiito ye desire again to be in bondage. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am...

...Nell. viii. 9, 10. * Acts, ii. 41, 42. k Acts, ii. 46, 47. ye should not obey the truth1? Now after ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how...months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vainb. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments...

...which the Almighty has doomed to pass into oblivion, in the words of St. Paul, (Gal. iv. 9,) " Now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known...elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ?" The Greek or Roman name is surely as glorious as that of Cymry or Welshman ; and yet what should...