...he regarded it as originally of divine appointment. He declares in the most express manner that he 'came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ;' that is, he came not to deny and subvert their divine authority, but to fulfil the true and...

...lead us beyond the bounds prescribed. Our Saviour in the 5th chapter 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...

...he regarded it as originally of divine appointment. He declares in the most express manner that he 'came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ;' that is, he came not to deny and subvert their divine authority, but to fulfil the true and...

...exceedingly probable. In a passage, therefore, of high doctrinal importance, he declared that he " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." His coming had not a negative, but a positive end ; he came not to make of none effect, but to complete....

...worthy of God. It retaineth all the excellencies of the Old Testament revelation ; for our Saviour came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and carry the scheme of religion there laid down to a still higher degree of excellence. The...

...dishonour both to God and His Christ, who expressly affirms the opposite of this sentiment, viz : that He " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil" — (Matt. v. 17 — 20). Now the law here meant is, that law which forbids covetousness, and every...

...the " Glory which He had with the Father before the world was :" it was designed to shew also that He came " not to destroy the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil them;" for the presence of Moses and Elias on this occasion, the former the Lawgiver, and the latter...

...from Judaism, because it was the completion of that system which in Judaism had been 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...

...religion saying, Not one jot, nor one tittle, shall pass from the law, but all shall be fulfilled. " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." And we pray, after having repeated these commandments, " Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our...

...although 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 a rule...