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Take hede brethren, that there be not in eny of you an euell hert of vnbeleue, to departe from the lyuynge God:

For he spake in a certayne place of the seueth daye, on this wyse: And God rested on the seuenth daye from all his workes.

Therfore remayneth there yet a rest vnto the people of God.

For he that is entred in to his rest, ceasseth from his workes, as God doth from his

For ye worde of God is quycke, and mightie in operacion, and sharper the eny two edged swerde, and entreth thorow, euen to the deuydinge of the soule & the sprete, and of ye ioyntes & the mary, and is a iudger of the thoughtes & intetes of the hert,

Seynge then that we haue a greate hye prest, eue Iesus ye sonne of God, which is entred in to heauen, let vs holde oure profession.

For euery hye prest that is taken fro amoge men, is ordeyned for men in thinges pertayninge to God, to offer giftes and sacrifices for synne:

And noma taketh ye honoure vnto himselfe, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

And in ye dayes of his fleshe, he offred vp prayers & supplicacions, wt stroge cryenge & teares vnto him yt was able to saue him fro death: & was herde also, because he had God in honoure.

and is called of God an hye prest after the order of Melchisedech.

For where as concernynge the tyme ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye nede agayne, yt we teach you the first preceptes of the worde of God: and are become soch as haue nede of mylke, and not stronge meate.

Wherfore let vs leaue the doctryne pertaynynge to the begynnynge of a Christen life, and let vs go vnto perfeccion: and now nomore laye ye foundacion of repetaunce from deed workes, and of faith towarde God,

And so wil we do yf God permytte.

& haue taisted of ye good worde of God, and of the power of the worlde to come,

yf they fall awaye (and concernynge them selues crucifye the sonne of God afresshe, and make a mocke off him) that they shulde be renued agayne vnto repentaunce.

For the earth, that drynketh in the rayne, which commeth oft vpon it, and bringeth forth herbes mete for them that dresse it, receaueth blessynge of God:

For God is not vnrighteous, that he shulde forget youre worke and laboure of loue, which ye shewed in his name, whan ye mynistred vnto the sayntes, and yet mynister.

For whan God made promes to Abraham, because he had none greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,

But God, wyllinge very abundauntly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his councell, added an ooth

yt by two immutable thinges (in the which it is vnpossible yt God shulde lye) we mighte haue a stronge consolacion: euen we, which are fled to holde fast the hope that is set before vs,