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in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

that through two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before [us],

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

because this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

saying, `This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

and a high priest over the house of God,

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,