...so bound upon us, a few passages of Scripture will prove as well as many. Our Lord declares, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. Take it, that by the " law," he meant both the , moral and the ceremonial ; ceremonial law could only...

...creations, and by his beneficence to all his creatures. As Jesus Christ expressly declared that he came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil, so it may be presumed that no revelation was intended to supersede or dispense with the study of those...

...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...

...pervading every page, and that in " the law and the prophets." The new things rest upon the old, " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." When you find our Blessed Lord changing an ordinance, you follow the change; when you find him not...

...the following extract from Mr. Noble ?* After making quotation of our Saviour's assurance, that " He came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil," Mr. Noble goes on to observe, — "Some have found it difficult to reconcile this declaration with...

...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 a rule—"...

...died, the "just for the unjust," that he might bring us unto God. And now, if I would learn that Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil — if I would certify to myself that the patriarchal and legal dispensations were but introductory...

...sure foundation to stand upon, which is the belief and knowledge of His blessed self. Just as Christ came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them — to give them a spirit and a depth in men's eyes which they never had before — just so He...

...now to be not only given, but preserved. This second was to be " like unto the first," for Christ " came , not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil;" and the object of both covenants alike was faithful obedience to the Creator. THE TWOFOLD DUTY, &C....

...Christ and his apostles . . . 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. —...