 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...fullness. 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 fulfill them ' (Matt. v. 17). We know that in the law" are described unto us the kinds of virtues and vices. We... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 632 pages
...great commands which I have mentioned. says, On these two hang all the law and the prophets. If, then, he came not to destroy the law, and the prophets, but to fulfil them, it was certainly no part of the end of his mission to destroy, in any degree, the two... | |
 | Arminianism - 1842 - 1128 pages
...duties of religion, and the leading rules of personal and social morality. Our Lord Jesus 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1826 - 918 pages
...passages of Scripture will prove, as well as many ; and these we shall adduce. Our Lord declares, t li.it 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 law ; ceremonial law... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...earth, gave his sanction to the ancient inspired •writings, by quoting from them, and by declaring that he " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." When in the upper sanctuary again, he sent the Spirit of Truth upon evangelists and apostles... | |
 | Stephen Laidler, James William Massie - Converts - 1827 - 440 pages
...the tradition of the fathers. He explained to the Jews the nature of his office, as the sent of God, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. He taught the church by his doctrines that he was the Son of God, and confirmed his doctrines... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 576 pages
...the law 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... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1830 - 1120 pages
...perfectly 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... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 504 pages
...lead me beyond the bounds to which I aru 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... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 508 pages
...lead me 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... | |
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that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. 
