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The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in…
The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in some of the last sermons of Mr. Joseph Caryl ; with an epistle prefixed by John Owen ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock, senior and junior ..., 1673
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First, The end, it notes the conclusion, and Period of a thing, the conclusion of all things; so the Apostle Peter in his 1 Epist. 4. 7. The ⟨p. 8⟩end of all things is at hand, and it's well for us to Remember that, If the end of all things were at hand in the Apostles time, how near is the end now, the end, the Period of all this visible world, it is at hand, Be ye therefore watchful, and sober.
Secondly, End, notes as much as the Aim, design, plot, scope of any Action, what it is that we drive at; and in that sense 'tis well said, That the desire of the end is endless, that is, men 1will never end their desirings till they have attained their desired end, namely, that which is the scope, and Aim, which they have set up to themselves in any undertaking: the end of a thing is the Aim, or the scope of it.
- 1Appetitus finis est infinitus.
Thirdly, End is taken in this notion, It notes the accomplishment, or the fulfilling and Completing of a thing, and in that sense it is used in Rom. 10. 4. Christ (saith the Apostle,) is the end of the Law for ⟨p. 9⟩Righteousness. The end of the Law, he hath brought the Law to its end—what end? why to its accomplishment, to its fulfilling, so that we are not to seek for righteousness by the Law for our Justification, for Christ hath made an end of the Law, or accomplished the Law, as to that point, for righteousness, Christ hath fulfilled the Law, both in doing the precepts of it, and he hath fulfilled the Law by enduring the penalty of it, and so he is the end of the Law, the fulfilling end of the Law; It hath no more to require than that we obey the precept, or endure the penalty of it, and both these Christ hath fully done, and so he hath fulfilled the whole Law, and Indeed, Christ having done so in his own person, having been the end of the Law in his obedience, both active and passive, I may say, He is the Abolishing end of the Law, he hath taken it away as to that use, for Justification by our own works, the