For it may not be supposed that when he recommended unto his Hearers an attendance unto the teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees, with an injunction to obey their directions, that he intended ought but those Commands which they gave from him; and according to his mind, whose fear they did outwardly profess; seeing that both in general and particular he did himself condemn their Traditions and Impositions; giving out a rule of liberty from them unto others in his own constant practice. Yea and whereas he would do Civil things in their own nature indifferent, whereunto he was by no righteous Law obliged, to avoid the offence of any which he saw might follow, Mat. 17. 24. yet would he not practice or give countenance unto, nay nor abstain from condemning of any of their Ecclesiastical Self invented Observances, though he saw them offended and scandalized at him, and was by others informed no less, Mat. 15. 12, 13, 14 confirming his practice with that standing Rule concerning all things relating to the Worship of God, Every plant which my heavenly ⟨p. 5⟩Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. But he is yet further to carry on the work of giving Liberty to all his Disciples, that he might take them into a subjection to himself, and his own Authority only. The Aaronical Priesthood being the hinge on which the whole Ceremonial Worship turned, so that upon a change thereof, the obligation of the Law unto that worship, or any part of it, was necessarily to cease, our blessed Saviour in his death and oblation entering upon the Office, and actually discharging the great duty of his Priesthood, did virtually put an end to the whole obligation of the first Institution of Mosaical Worship. In his death was the procurement of the Liberty of his Disciples completely finished as unto conscience, the supposed Obligation of mens Traditions, and the real Obligation of Mosaical Institutions, being by him, (the first as a Prophet in his teaching, the last as a Priest in his offering) dissolved and taken away. From that day all the Disciples of Christ were taken under his immediate Lordship, and made free to the end of the world from all obligations in Conscience unto any thing in the Worship of God, but what is of his own Institution and Command.
For it may not be supposed that when he recommended unto his Hearers an attendance unto the teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees, with an injunction to obey their directions, that he intended ought but those Commands which they gave from him; and according to his mind, whose fear they did outwardly professe; seeing that both in general and particular he did himself condemn their Traditions and Impositions; giving out a rule of liberty from them unto others in his own constant practice. Yea and whereas he would do Civil things in their own nature indifferent, whereunto he was by no righteous Law obliged, to avoid the offence of any which he saw might follow, Mat. 17. 24. yet would he not practice or give countenance unto, nay nor abstain from condemning of any of their Ecclesiastical Self invented Observances, though he saw them offended and scandalized at him, and was by others informed no lesse, Mat. 15. 12, 13, 14 confirming his practice with that standing Rule concerning all things relating to the Worship of God, Every plant which my heavenly ⟨p. 5⟩Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. But he is yet further to carry on the work of giving Liberty to all his Disciples, that he might take them into a subjection to himself, and his own Authority onely. The Aaronicall Priesthood being the hinge on which the whole Ceremonial Worship turned, so that upon a change thereof, the obligation of the Law unto that worship, or any part of it, was necessarily to cease, our blessed Saviour in his death and oblation entering upon the Office, and actually discharging the great duty of his Priesthood, did virtually put an end to the whole obligation of the first Institution of Mosaical Worship. In his death was the procurement of the Liberty of his Disciples compleatly finished as unto conscience, the supposed Obligation of mens Traditions, and the real Obligation of Mosaical Institutions, being by him, (the first as a Prophet in his teaching, the last as a Priest in his offering) dissolved and taken away. From that day all the Disciples of Christ were taken under his immediate Lordship, and made free to the end of the world from all obligations in Conscience unto any thing in the Worship of God, but what is of his own Institution and Command.
