directly, in the letter, against that cessation of Mosaical rites which the Jews opposed. Now, who was fit, who was able, to determine upon these different and various institutions of God, but God himself? To declare positively that all obligation from his former commands was now ceased, that his institutions were no more to be observed, that the time allotted unto the church’s obedience unto him in their observance was expired,—this was no otherwise to be effected but by an immediate revelation
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