...ascertained under the Christian, as under the Jewish dispensation. Our Saviour informs us, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; not to set up a new religion, but to perfect the old. And the ground upon which the divinity...

...beyond the bounds to which I am 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 mount...

...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...

...To suppose that the original law of the Sabbath is abolished, would be preposterous ; because Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. " The first day of the week, or Christian Sabbath, is the day which the Apostles and primitive Christians...

...beyond the bounds to which I am 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...

...fulness. Yet we do not therefore disdain or reject the law. We remember the words of the Lord, saying, "I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." We know that in the law are described unto us the kinds of virtues and vices. We know that the...

...above all, that he declared in one of his most solemn discourses — that on the Mount — that "he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil" — that "till heaven and earth should pass, one jot or one tittle should in no wise pass from the...

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

...unto you " ( 1 Pet. i. 25 ; Isai. xl. 6 — 8). When Christ preached the Gospel, he declared that he came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil ; and the Apostles in their preaching continually refer to the Old Testament as the standard of truth,...

...that it must be equally inaccordant with the precepts contained in the Gospel : for its great Author came not to " destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." When these things are taken in connection with the historical evidence, already adduced, that the early...