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For ye are not come vnto the mount that might be touched, nor vnto burning fire, nor to blacknes and darkenes, and tempest,

(For they were not able to abide yt which was commaunded, yea, though a beast touche the mountaine, it shalbe stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

See that ye despise not him yt speaketh: for if they escaped not which refused him, that spake on earth: much more shall we not escape, if we turne away from him, that speaketh fro heauen.

For euen our God is a consuming fire.

Be not forgetfull to intertaine strangers: for thereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnwares.

Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,

Remember them which haue the ouersight of you, which haue declared vnto you the word of God: whose faith followe, considering what hath bene the ende of their conuersation. Iesus Christ yesterday, and to day, the same also is for euer.

Be not caried about with diuers & strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be stablished with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them that haue bene occupied therein.

For the bodies of those beastes whose blood is brought into the Holy place by the high Priest for sinne, are burnt without the campe.

For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

To doe good, and to distribute forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must giue accountes, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.

Pray for vs: for we are assured that we haue a good conscience in all things, desiring to liue honestly.

Make you perfect in all good workes, to doe his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise for euer and euer, Amen.

I beseeche you also, brethren, suffer the wordes of exhortation: for I haue written vnto you in fewe wordes.

But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away.

Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.

Let no man say when hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.