...his sanction to the ancient inspired •writings, by quoting from them, and by declaring that he " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." When in the upper sanctuary again, he sent the Spirit of Truth upon evangelists and apostles in copious...

...For though none delighted more than he in preaching Christ and gospel-grace ; yet he knew that Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ; and that, though, through grace, we are not under the law, as a covenant ; yet we are under it as...

...necessities of mankind. They retain all that is excellent in the Old Testament revelation : for Christ came, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and to carry the scheme of religion there laid down to a still higher degree of excellency. Accordingly,...

...prejudices of the Jew. Moreover, the religion of the New Testament is founded on that of the Old. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; not to repeal, but to establish them with higher sanctions and more powerful motives. Hence,...

...tradition of the fathers. He explained to the Jews the nature of his office, as the sent of God, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. He taught the church by his doctrines that he was the Son of God, and confirmed his doctrines...

...all the scriptures which my opponent would urge, in support of Jesus' being essentially God. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; the law is as far fulfilled, in the soul, as it is brought to love God, in his adorable image,...

...frohi Judaism, because it was the completion of that system which in Judaism had heen begun. Christ came, " not " to destroy the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. " * Hence the moral precepts of the Old Testament were preserved and perfected in the New; the...

...beyond the bounds to which I aru confined. Our Saviour in the 5th of St. Matthew tells us, • that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them.' "What his meaning was, he sufficiently explained in the following part of his sermon on the...

...Mosaical dispensation, and to correct the vulgar error, that he came to subvert it ; whereas, " He came, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ;n 1. to accomplish, in his own person, the types and prophecies respecting THE MESSIAH and his kingdom...

...of nature (as is proved) which we confess now to be part of his law. Object. ' Christ saith, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and that a jot or tittle shall not pass till all be fulfilled.' Answ. " He is the end of the...