...elements*. St. Paul calls them weak and poor elements ; because, as he says in another place, ///c law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. (Heb.xl) So also he says, that the Mosaic sacrifices could not make...

...The law (he says,) having a shadow (only) of good things to come, and not the very image (or reality) of the things, can never, with those sacrifices which...continually, make the comers thereunto perfect; for then, (if they could put away sin,) would they not have ceased to be offered?" If they were effectual, there...

...things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses1." Again, the same apostle says, " For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never by those sacrifices, which they offer from year to year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect...

...nothing else ever can, for " the law made nothing perfect as pertaining to the conscience ;"• for, it - having a shadow of good things to come, and not the...purged, should have had no more conscience of sins." Heb. x. 1,2. Here we see those outward sacrifices and washings, "the shadows of good things to come,"...

...just before the divine law. This only can relieve, the conscience from the load and fear of guilt. '' For the law having a shadow of good things to come,...they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the ' worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." But " we are sanctified by the...

...the Christian scheme : and here again adduces the prophetic declaration of the inspired Psalmist: " The Law having a shadow of good things to come, and...of the things,:): can never with those sacrifices liar characters the priesthood of Christ was pre-eminently distinguished. The Apostle then in the 3d...

...sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience : " x. 1. "For the law, having a shadow of good things to come,...year, continually make the" comers thereunto perfect." Having 'premised these things, we proceed to inquire how the Scriptures teach the abrogation of the...

...substance should appear. This is the view given of the law in the passage before us. The Apostle says, " The law, having a shadow of good things to come, and...purged, should have had no more conscience of sins." Hence it appears, that the most solemn institutions of the law, not excepting the sacrifices offered...

...reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. The Epistle. Heb. x. 1. ППНЕ law having a shadow of good things -•- to come,...For then would they not have ceased to be offered 1 because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those...

...which they could not be justified by the law of Moses." (Acts xiii.) tion to the legal sacrifices. For " the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, could never by those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto...