 | David Bowker Wells - 1824 - 226 pages
...do".* On other occasions he said, "What is written in the law? how readest thoub?" "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil0." Christ, indeed, came into the world, not for the purpose of violently overturning... | |
 | Charles Richard Sumner - Bible - 1824 - 472 pages
...introductory dispensation which had so long served ' as a shadow of the good things to come.' ' Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets ; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil2.' Considered indeed in his human nature, Jesus was morally bound to observe... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 636 pages
...sufficiently declared in his Sermon on the Mount. One of the first declarations in it is this : ' Think not I am come to destroy the law and the prophets ; I am not come to destroy, but to fulHI.' The system of natural religion taught in the Scriptures is one and unchangeable.... | |
 | Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...and perfect law for the direction of our practice, and the government of our lives. Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil p. For I say unto you, that except your righteousness exceed the righteousness... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 588 pages
...delusion, by standing in direct opposition to Christ, •who thus decides the controversy: ' Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets : I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. . For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or tittle... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 878 pages
...messenger Jesus was sent only to confirm the existing law, for he says, Matt. v. 17. " Think not that 1 am come to destroy the law and the prophets ; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily 1 say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 608 pages
...did actually fulfil it by his obedience unto it. So he testifieth concerning himself; 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets, I am not com* to destroy but to fulfil ;' Matt. v. 17. These words of our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded by the... | |
 | 846 pages
...sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," Mutt. xv. 24. So in Matt. v. 17, 18, " Think not I, am come to destroy the law and the prophets ; I am not come to destroy hut to fulfil ; for verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or tittle... | |
 | 1828 - 844 pages
...sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," Matt. xv. 24. So in Matt. v. 17, 18, " Think not I am come to destroy the law and the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil; for verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or tittle... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Assize sermons - 1828 - 508 pages
...x. I. § Coloss. ii. I I. End of Time, as we learn from the Words of our Lord himself: " Think not I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."* Now the vast and highly important Difference arising from the Violation of... | |
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Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
