A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

Thus then was the Law disannulled; and it was so actually by the means before mentioned. But that the Church might not be surprised, there were many warnings given of it before it came to pass. As (1) A Mark was put upon it from the very Beginning, that it had not a Perpetuity in its Nature, nor inseparably annexed unto it. For it had no small presignification in it, that immediately upon the giving of it as a Covenant with that People, they brake the Covenant in making the Golden Calf in Horeb, and thereon Moses brake the Tables of Stone wherein the Law was written. Had God intended that this Law should have been perpetual, he would not have suffered its first constitution to have been accompanied with an express Emblem of its disannulling. (2) Moses expressly foretells that after the giving of the Law, God would provoke them to jealously by a foolish People; Deut. 32. 21. Rom. 10. 19. that is, by the calling of the Gentiles, whereon the Wall of Partition that was between them, even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances was of necessity to be taken out of the way. (3) The Prophets frequently declared that it was of it self utterly insufficient for the expiation of Sin, or the Sanctification of Sinners, and thereon preferred moral Obedience above all its Institutions; whence it necessarily follows that seeing God did intend a [Greek or Hebrew] or state of Perfection for his Church, that this Law was at last to be disannulled. (4) All the Promises concerning the coming of Christ as the end of the Law, did declare its station in the Church not to be perpetual; especially that insisted on by our Apostle, of his being a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. (5) The Promises and Predictions are express, that a New Covenant should be established with the Church, unto the removal of the Old, whereof we must treat in the next Chapter. By all these ways was the Church of the Hebrews forewarned that the Time would come, when the whole Mosaical Law, as to its Legal or Covenant Efficacy, should be disannulled unto the unspeakable Advantage of the Church. And we may hence observe.

Thus then was the Law disanulled; and it was so actually by the means before mentioned. But that the Church might not be surprized, there were many warnings given of it before it came to pass. As (1) A Mark was put upon it from the very Beginning, that it had not a Perpetuity in its Nature, nor inseparably annexed unto it. For it had no small presignification in it, that immediately upon the giving of it as a Covenant with that People, they brake the Covenant in making the Golden Calf in Horeb, and thereon Moses brake the Tables of Stone wherein the Law was written. Had God intended that this Law should have been perpetual, he would not have suffered its first constitution to have been accompanied with an express Embleme of its disanulling. (2) Moses expresly foretells that after the giving of the Law, God would provoke them to jealously by a foolish People;