in my wTath, if they (hall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wife, And Ood did rest the seventh day from, allhis works.

5 And in this place again, If they (hall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some mult enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

7 (Again, he limiteth a certain day, laying in David, To day, after so lone a. time; as it is laid, To day if ye will hear his voice, -harden not your hearts.

S For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Io For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God dUfrom his.)

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the fame example of unbelief.

it For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, ana is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his fight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is pasted into the heaven*, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fait our profession.

15 For we have notanhighpriestwhich cannot be touched with shefcelingofour infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as nve are, yet without fin.

t6 Let us thereforecomeboldlyuntothe throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,andfindgracetohelp in time ofneed.

CHAP. V. 1 The authority and honour of our Sai'ieur^r priesthood. 11 Negatfenet in thi j knowledge thereof reproved.

FO R every high priest taken from among men, is ordriined for men v.\ things pertaining to Got!, that h; mx, offer both gifts and sacrifices for fins:

2 Who can have compassion on thr ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also in cons passed with infirmity.

3 And by reason hereof be aujfc-, as for the people, so also tor himself, to

4 And no man taketb this hooourtsto himself, but he that is called of G<x!. as was Aaron.

5 So also Christ glorified" trot himftif to be made an high priest; but he rta: said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

6 As he faith also in another pie.-. Thou art a priest for ever after the mder of Melchisedec.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplies, tions with strong crying and tears, wito him that was able to lave him from death, and was heard in that be fored,

8 Though he were a Son, vet learned lie obedience by the things which be suffered;

9 And being made perfect, he 1 the author of eternal salvation them that obey him;

10 Called of God an high prie the order of Melchisedec. .

11 Of whom we have many things to fay, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye art dull of hearing.

it For when for the time ye ough: to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of nrilk, and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that useth rr.ilk u unskilful in the word of righteoufuds. for he is a babe. - a* Jn»

14 But strong meat belongcthfotbm that are of full age, even those who br reason of use have their senses txercifrJ to discern both good and evil.

CHAP. VI.

1 He exhorteth not to fall bacJtfifSelk

faith, 11 but to be Jtedfoji, 11 asApet

and patient to wait upon Ca J, Ij h>

cause God is mo/I sure in his pnatift.

THEREFORE leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, set trs Ru on unto perfection; not Ltying again the foundation of repentance from deal! works, and of faith toward Gon,

: Of the doctrine of baptisms, ami« laying-on of hands, and of resorrtcrica

of the dead, and of eternal judgement.

3 And this will we do, if God permit.

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tailed of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fell away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open fliame.

7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

8 Bat that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Io For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love which ye have mewed toward his name, in that ye have miniltered to the laints, and do minister.

ii And we desire that every one of you do lhew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope nnto the end:

ii That ye be not flathful, but follower* of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

i j For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swareby himself,

i+ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay held upon the hope set before us:

19 Which hope we have asan anchor of the foul, bothsureand stedsast,and which entereth into that within the veil;

10 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

. vii. MelehifeJee and-Christ;

Chap. vn.

1 Christ Jesus is a priiji after the order of Melchisedec, 11 and so Jar more excellent than Mie priests of Aaron's order.

FOR tins Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest ot'the molt high God, who met Abraham returning from the daughter of the kings, and blessed him;

3 To whom also Abraham gaveatenth part of all; firlt being by interpretation s King osrighteousness, and after thataiio King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither begiuning of days, nor end of life; but mad? like unto the Son of God; abidetli a priest continually.

4. Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

6 But he whole descent is not counted from them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

9 And as I may so say, Levi also, whore-, ceiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need <u-as there that another prieJt Ihould rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron f

1* For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change allo of the law.

1 jFor heofwhom these things arespoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

1+ For it is evident, that our Lord, sprang out os Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing conceniingpriesthood.

i j And it is yet far more evident :• for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless lite.

17 For he ustifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order.of -Melchisedec. .

18 For thereU verily a disannulling oi

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Thesa,

the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest t

21 (For those prielts were made without an oath, but this with an oath; by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

n By so much was Jesus madeasurety of a better testament.

23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to lave them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. i,:.- .

'26 For such an high priest became us, <who is holy, harmless, undetiied, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

X7 Who ueedeth not daily,'as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, iftrit for his own fins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

■zS For the law ir.aketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was tince die hw, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. •

CHAP. VIII. t By Chri/I's eternalpriejiho'jd the LenAticalpriesthood is abolished, 7 and the temporal cs-venant, H the eternal' covenfaitf. NO W of the things which we have spoken this ss the sum: We have such an High priest, who is set on the right handof the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

a A minister of the sanctuary, and os the (rue tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of nccellity that this man have somewhat also to otfer.

4 For ishe were on earth, he should not lie a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, asMole? was admonished of God when lie was about. to make the tabernacle 1 for, Sec, faith

I he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in tbt mount.

6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by iiow much also hi is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been fin kiefs, then should noplace havebern sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, he faka, Behold, the days come, faith the Lori1, when I will make a new covenant wit., the house of Israel and with the hoe;: of Judahi ,,.

9 Not according to the covenant tin: I made with their fathers in the da»when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; becautr they continued not in my covenant, aad I regarded them not, faith the Lord.

10 For this u the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, faith the Lord; I will put my lass into their mind, and write them in tlveir hearts.- and I will be to thiin a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11 And they mall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man b'a brother, faying, Know the Lord: snail shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12 For I will he merciful to tiicrsarighteousnese, and; their fins and ms iniquities will I remember no mare.

13 In that he faith, A new crztaat, he hath made the first; old. Now nW which ikcayeth and waxeth oM is reasif to vanish away.

G H A P. IX1 The rites and bloodysacrifices oftifmn. 11 far inferior to'the blood and Jacritcr H/Christ. .....: --.. V V

THEN verily the first covena* had also ordinances of diving Jervke, land a worldly sanctuary.

2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first wherein,<umi the casidlefacV. and the table-, and the fhewhreaiJ, which is called the sanctuary,

5 Ami aster tlic second veil, the tabernacle which is colled the Holiest of a!';

4 Which had the golden censer, aad the ark os the covenant overlaid rosad about wilh. gold, wherein æwxj- thepide;i pot that had manna, and Aaron.': rod t li.it- budded, and the, tables of the covenant; a . ■^■iv.'.

j And over it the cherubim*of pier shadowing the mercyseat} of whki»». cannot now I pi ak particularly.

C Now when these thing* were ti»

inferior to Christ,

ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service q/' Gtfrf.

7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and

for the errors of the people:"

8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way rnto the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as'the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9 Which ixiai a figure for the time then present, in'which were offered both

fists and sacrifices, that could not make im that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

to Which flood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Ii But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by agreater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to fay, not of this building;

is Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood; he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemptionybr us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of coats, and the aihe; of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the stem!

i+ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, puree your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that •were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16 For where a testament it, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

'st Moreover he sprinkled likewise

with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

si It lisas therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens mould bepurified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24. For Christ is not'entered into the holy places made with hands, which art the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

25 Nor yet that lie mould offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world 1 but now once in the.end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice or himself.

27 And as it is appointed unto men oncetodie, but after this the judgement;

28 So Christ was once offeredto bear the fins of many: and unto them that look for him (hall he appear the second; time without sin unto salvation.

CHAP. X. 1 The •weakness of the laiu sacrifices. 10 The sacrifices of Christ's body once offered, z\for ever hath taken aivayfins.

FOR the law havinga (hadow of good things to come, and not the veryimage of the things, can never wit^ those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged mould have had no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those/acrjfr« there is a remembrance again made of tins every year.

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he Cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hafli thou prepared me«

6 In burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is, written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8 Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein \ which are ottered by the law;

S > t 9 Then Holdfast the faith.

What faith it.

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy

will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

ioBy the which will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the fame sacrifices, which can never take away fins:

12 But this mat, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever fat down' on die right hand of God;

. 14. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14. For by bnei.offering he hath perfected.for ever them that are sanctified.

1 j Whereof'the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, •

16 This:/'/ the;covenant that I will make with them, after those days, faith the L6rd, I will putmy laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them} . '■

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for fin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, l>oldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

40 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to fay, his flesh;

»t And havingxa high priest over she house of God;

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

*3 Let us hold fast the profession of #»r faith without wavering; for he 'is faithful that.promised:

24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto loVe and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye fee the day approaching.

26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sius, , ,, , . f e

27 But a certain fearful laoking For of judgement and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses law died without mercy wider two or three witnesses::

25 Of how much soier punishment,

suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Soaof God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done desphe unto the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belctigeth unto me, I will recompense, faith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into tac hands of the living God.

31 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

34 For ye had companion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully die spoiling et your goods, knowing in yourselves thst ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

3 5 Cast net away therefore your confidence, which hath great recoxnpence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, re might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, and he tint shall come will come, and will not tarty.

38 Now the. just shall live by s^ith: tmt if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition} but of them ttu: believe to the saving of the soul.

CHAP. XI. 1 What faith is. 6 Without faith tve cannot please God. 7 The fruits tJuraf. NOW faith is the substance of thing; hoped for, the evidence of thiap not seen.

2 Far by it the elders obtained a good report.

3 Through faith we understand tb;the worlds were framed by the word o» God, so that things which are seen werc not made of things which do appear.

4 By faith, Abel offered unto God > more excellent sacrifice than Cain, sj which he obtained witness that he «ai righteous, God testifying of hit pfss: and by it he being dead yet ipeakttB.

5 By faith Enoch was translated, thai he should not see death; and was Do* found, because God hud translated hira

Ifor before his translation be had tfa testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith U is impofiibl* '-' 'nl-ai

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