Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…

I will instance but in a fourth (because these differences are given by most that treat on this subject) and that shall be the ¹continuance and abode of it. The Law, in that Mosaical administration, was to endure but till Christ the fullness came; and then, as the scaffolds are pulled down when the house is built, so were all those external ordinances to be abolished, when Christ himself came. A candle is superfluous when the sun appeareth. A School-master is not necessary to those that have obtained perfect knowledge. Milk is not comely for those who live on solid meat. The chaff preserves the corn, but when the corn is gathered, the chaff is thrown away. And when the fruit cometh, the flower falleth to the ground And in this sense the Apostle, Heb. 7. doth argue against it, saying, it could bring nothing to perfection, Neither could any of those purifications work any good and spiritual effect. It behoved therefore that a Christ should be exhibited, which would work all those spiritual mercies for us, Hence had there been no farther proceeding, but we must always have stayed in such offerings, and sacrifices, it had been impossible for ever that God should have been pleased with us. It is therefore in this respect, that it was to be antiquated, and a better covenant to come in the room of it. The Apostle calleth those things, Heb. 10. a shadow: Now a shadow, that doth show a man, but yet the shadow, that doth not live, or eat, or speak: so those sacrifices they shadowed out Christ, but yet they could not exhibit the real benefits by Christ. As Elisha sent his servant with a staff to raise up the Shunamites son, but he could do nothing; then cometh the Prophet himself, and raiseth him up: so it's here, Moses was like the Prophets servant, he went with a staff to raise up those dead in sin, but could not do it without Christ.

I will instance but in a fourth (because these differences are given by most that treate on this subject) and that shall be the ¹continuance and abode of it. The Law, in that Mosaicall administration, was to indure but till Christ the fulness came; and then, as the scaffolds are pulled down when the house is built, so were all those externall ordinances to be abolished, when Christ himselfe came. A candle is superfluous when the sun appeareth. A School-master is not necessary to those that have obtained perfect knowledge. Milke is not comely for those who live on solid meat. The chaff preserves the corn, but when the corn is gathered, the chaff is thrown away. And when the fruit commeth, the flower falleth to the ground And in this sense the Apostle,