 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...dispensation is spoken of as the last and most perfect, wherein perfection was reached, Heb. vii. 19. " For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did." And chap. xi. 40. " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...priesthood" was afterwards to be " changed," and this makes a " necessity of a change also of thq law." " There is verily a disannulling of the commandment...going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness of it." Mo? ses and Christ have each their appointed stations in the church of God. The first " was... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...order of Aaron ? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change of the lawk. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment...nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope'. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1819 - 248 pages
...of an endless life : For he testifieih, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek : For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment...before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof." Heb. vii. 12 — 1R. The iv hole sum of the apostle's argument, in this epistle, tends to prove that... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1819 - 248 pages
...of an endless life : For he testifielh, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek : For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unpvo6tableness thereof." Heb. vii. 12 — 18. The whole sum of the apostle's argument, in this epistle,... | |
 | John Cennick - 1819 - 540 pages
...have been no need of another priest to come after the order of Melchisedech ;" but he concludes, " the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did," and that Christ crucified is the true doctrine of perfection. We must not, however, despise the first... | |
 | Samuel F. Hussey - Society of Friends - 1821 - 256 pages
...decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Heb. vii. 18, 19. For there is verily a disan. nailing of the commandment going before for the weakness and...perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God." Is this the law which is so perfect, that it was just like God himself?... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1821 - 294 pages
...give to God a ransom for him. The blood of bulls and of goats could not take away sin. The law itself made nothing perfect — but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh to God. Yes, blessed be thy name, Thou hast shown us what is good ; and we behold... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." See also chap. vii. 18, 19. " For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment...perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God." This apostle has expressed the same thing in a similitude like the... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 442 pages
...dust. Their priesthood has been abolished. But Jesus lives, and shall continue " a priest for ever." The law made nothing perfect; but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by which we draw nigh unto God. And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest, while those priests were... | |
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For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 
