Wesley Corpus

" Fourthly, that himself performed more works on that than any other day : and, " Fifthly, that he came not to destroy but to fulfil the law, to teach men its right meaning." All and every one of these five propositions we allow to be perfectly true, and should be glad to know from which of the five we are to infer the conclusion. Are we to say the Pha risees having wrong views of the sabbath, therefore the sabbath is abolished ? or that our Lord proving their notions of it to be wrong, therefore it is disannulled ? or that the Almighty could if he pleased set it aside, therefore he did set it aside? or that our blessed Saviour performed works of necessity and mercy on the sabbath-day, therefore we may do works which belong neither to necessity nor mercy ? or lastly, that the Son of Man came to fulfil the law, therefore he destroyed this branch of it f I trust it will not appear presumption if, notwithstanding all the arguments of this learned author, I still conceive that the Al mighty hath not repealed his own command