The Epistle to the Galatians furnishes us with the next passage in our important inquiry. It is at the close of the iiird Chapter, the 26th and two following verses:—“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 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.” Here a new idea is introduced;—a fresh practical use is made by the Apostle of the Ordinance of baptism. And a very striking and beautiful idea it is. The order hitherto invariably found to prevail in what the Scripture says on the subject of baptism is observable also here. The Apostle first reminds the Galatians that _they were made the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus_, and then he refers to their baptism and what they had done by it. As we have considered the expressions, “baptized into Christ,” as they occur in the Epistle to the Romans, they need not be noticed here. But the words, “have put on Christ,” represent to us—what in connection with our subject we have not had before—the clothing or garments which baptized believers have put on, and in which they appear (when things are as they ought to be with them) both before God and before men. This phrase is said to have been taken from the method of dipping or plunging adults in baptism; who, when they came forth from the water, were clothed with their own garments as though they had been new, or with other garments really new. There are two senses in which true believers may be said to “put on Christ.” First, they put Him on as their righteousness for acceptance with God or for their justification; and, secondly, they put Him on—(and this seems especially intended here)—for sanctification; that is, His Spirit is imparted to them, by which they are so changed as to become new creatures. The graces of Christ’s Spirit are sometimes thus described under the figure of clothing. “Put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,” writes St. Paul to the Colossians, “bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.” “And above all these things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” (iii. 12, 14.) The Spirit of Christ ought to be as apparent in those who have been baptized into Him as the garments which they wear. Nay, His meekness, and lowliness, and gentleness, and goodness, and heavenly-mindedness, should become _a part of themselves_—_their very nature_. For as the work of sanctification, expressed by the being clothed upon with ‘Christ, is both _internal_ and _outward_, it may be compared to _the natural beauty_ with which Christ Himself said that God clothes the plants and the flowers: and when Christians manifest the genuine influence of the Spirit of Christ, it may then indeed be said of them, as He said of the lilies, “that Solomon in all his glory was not