Obj. IN the next place it is requisite to consider of the perpetuity, and continuance of the Law, for in some places the Scrip∣ture saith, that Christ came to fulfill the Law, not to destroy it,* 1.1 and in other places as though the Law was abrogated, as Rom. 6. 14. Ye are not under the Law, but under grace, with Heb. 7. 12. If the Priest-hood be changed, there must of necessity be a change of the Law.
Ans. For the solution hereof this is to be added here, though* 1.2 the question be partly answered before. And first in relation to the Ceremoniall Law, which was prescribed unto the Jewes, to be observed in the Worship of God, it is wholly abrogated. 1. The body being come the shadow is to be done away. 2. These Ce∣remoniall observations were tyed to a certaine place; as 1. To the Tabernacle. 2. To the Temple of Solomon, but now the Worship of God is not tyed to a certaine place, as at Jerusalem, where the Temple was, Joh. 4. ••••. 3. Other Sacraments are in∣stituted, as Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, ergo they are to be abrogated. 4. The Ceremonies doe binde the observers, to keep the whole Law, but Christ having freed us from the bon∣dage, ergo. 5. The Ceremonies were a wall of partition, and distinction betwixt the Jewes, and the Gentiles, but now that