whom be glory for ever and ever. amen. I wonder you have so soon deserted unto another gospel,

but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me,

Now if it be a sin to seek for justification by Christ, then is Christ the minister of sin, which cannot be.

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

but the scripture has declar'd all guilty of sin, that the blessing promised on condition of faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,

and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, that is, father;

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude.

but what saith the scripture? "cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free-woman."