_A Supernatural Revelation._--There can be no doubt whatever as a matter of historic fact, that the apostle Paul claimed to have received direct revelation from heaven. He is so certain of that revelation that he warns the Galatians against being enticed by any apparent evidence to doubt it. It would be impossible to express a stronger, a more deliberate, and a more solemn conviction that he had received a supernatural communication of the will of God.--_Dr. Wace, Bampton Lectures._ _The Best Authority to be obeyed._--A dispute having arisen on some question of ecclesiastical discipline and ritual, King Oswi summoned in 664 a great council at Whitby. The one set of disputants appealed to the authority of Columba, the other to that of St. Peter. "You own," cried the puzzled king to Colman, "that Christ gave to Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven: has He given such power to Columba?" The bishop could but answer, "No." "Then I will obey the porter of heaven," said Oswi, "lest when I reach its gates he who has the keys in his keeping turn his back on me, and there be none to open." _Latitudinarianism._--Referring to Erasmus's temporising policy in the Reformation, Froude says: "The question of questions is, what all this latitudinarian philosophising, this cultivated epicurean gracefulness, would have come to if left to itself, or rather, what was the effect which it was inevitably producing? If you wish to remove an old building without bringing it in ruin about your ears, you must begin at the top, remove the stones gradually downwards, and touch the foundation last. But latitudinarianism loosens the elementary principles of theology. It destroys the premises on which the system rests. It would beg the question to say that this would in itself have been undesirable; but the practical effect of it, as the world then stood, would have been only to make the educated into infidels, and to leave the multitude to a convenient but debasing superstition." Ver. 9. _The True Gospel to be preached and believed._ I. The repetition of these words by Paul +signify that he had not spoken rashly but advisedly,+ whatsoever he had said before. II. +That the point delivered is an infallible truth of God.+ III. +That we may observe and remember what he had said as the foundation of our religion+--that the doctrine of the apostles is the only infallible truth of God, against which we may not listen to Fathers, Councils, or to the very angels of God. IV. They are accursed +who teach otherwise than the Galatians had received.+--As Paul preached the Gospel of Christ, so the Galatians received it. The great fault of our times is that whereas the Gospel is preached it is not accordingly received. Many have no care to know it; and they who know it give not unto it the assent of faith, but only hold it in opinion.--_Perkins._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 10-12. _The Superhuman Origin of the Gospel._