+IV. We have spiritual liberty by the grace of God.+--1. Christian liberty is a deliverance from misery. (1) From the curse of the law for the breach thereof. (2) From the obligation of the law whereby it binds us to perfect righteousness in our own persons. (3) From the observance of the ceremonial law of Moses. (4) From the tyranny and dominion of sin. 2. Christian liberty is freedom in good things. (1) In the voluntary service of God. (2) In the free use of all the creatures of God. (3) Liberty to come to God and in prayer to be heard. (4) To enter heaven. +V. Christ is the great Liberator.+--He procured this liberty: 1. By the merit of His death. The price paid--His precious blood--shows the excellence of the blessing, and that it should be esteemed. 2. By the efficacy of His Spirit--assuring us of our adoption and abating the strength and power of sin. +VI. We are to hold fast our liberty in the day of trial.+--1. We must labour that religion be not only in mind and memory but rooted in the heart. 2. We must join with our religion the soundness of a good conscience. 3. We must pray for all things needful.--_Perkins._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 2-6. _Christianity Superior to External Rites._ +I. External rites demand universal obedience.+--"Every man that is circumcised is a debtor to do the whole law" (ver. 3). The Galatians were in a state of dangerous suspense. They were on the brink of a great peril. Another step and they would be down the precipice. That step was circumcision. Seeing the imminence of the danger the apostle becomes more earnest and emphatic in his remonstrance. He warns them that circumcision, though a matter of indifference as an external rite, would in their case involve an obligation to keep the whole law. This he has shown is an impossibility. They would submit themselves to a yoke they were unable to bear, and from whose galling tyranny they would be unable to extricate themselves. Knowing this, surely they would not be so foolish as, deliberately and with open eyes, to commit such an act of moral suicide. There must be a strange infatuation in ritualistic observances that tempts man to undertake obligations he is powerless to perform, utterly heedless of the most explicit and faithful warnings.