...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, the...

...used them with the greatest esteem and veneration, and to rich advantage. Our blessed Lord declared, that " he came not to destroy the law and the prophets; but to fulfil them." As he came to fulfil the law, and the predictions of the prophets, by his obedience and sufferings;...

...Master condemned the Scribes and Pharisees for having made void the law of God through their traditions. He came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. The disciples, (to whom, and to whom only, the language in Mark ix. 43, et seq. was addressed) were...

...God." How truly and how remarkably in this atoning sacrifice are the words of Christ fulfilled : " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." He fulfilled the moral law, by the spotless innocence of his character ; he fulfilled the law of sacrifice...

...attributing these doctrines, (we may say SANCTIONS,) to their Law. He came, in fact, as He always asserted, not to destroy the Law, and the Prophets, but to fulfil them ; and in every page, throughout the four Gospels, wheresoever a future state is insisted upon, it is...

...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,...

...many passages of scripture ; nay, I might say from the whole tenor of scripture on the subject. Christ came " not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." The corner stone of the Church is laid in Sion ; ie in the Jewish church. The privileges that had been...

...whilst the inspired Preacher of the Gospel proved the same great truth, and demonstrated that " Christ came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil." As then the Law and the Prophets were avowedly designed to introduce the Gospel, so they did, in fact,...

...will not 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 ;...

...that shows 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 proper...