...surely in the way in which God would conduct them. Christ came into this world, as himself tells us, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. And we who preach his gospel, are authorized to "say none other things than those which the prophets...

...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...

...remind you, 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...

...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 scripture...

...fully and expressly enjoined in the Old Testament, that it is not consistent to suppose that He " who came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil," should reproach them for duly setting them out. But you will observe, that the true Church of Christ...

...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 a...

...preached 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,...

...pure ; that God would magnify the law, and make it honourable, &c. Our Saviour himself assures us, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. That whoever shall do and teach the commandments, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven :...

...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...

...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...