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This Melchisedech kynge of Salem (which beynge prest of the most hye God, met Abraham as he returned agayne from the slaughter of the kynges, & blessed him,

without father, without mother, without kynne, and hath nether begynnynge of dayes, ner ende of life: but is likened vnto the sonne of God, and contynueth a prest for euer.

For the lawe made nothinge perfecte, but was an introduccion of a better hope, by ye which hope we drawe nye vnto God.

Wherfore he is able also euer to saue them, that come vnto God by him: & lyueth euer, to make intercession for vs.

and is a mynister of holy thinges, and of the true Tabernacle, which God pitched, & not man.

offer giftes (which prestes serue vnto the ensample and shadowe of heauely thinges, euen as the answere of God was geuen vnto Moses, whan he was aboute to fynish the Tabernacle: Take hede (sayde he) that thou make all thinges acordinge to the patrone shewed the in the mount.)

For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people:

That first Tabernacle verely had ordinaunces, and seruynges off God and outwarde holynes.

When these thinges were thus ordeyned, the prestes wente allwayes in to the first Tabernacle, and excuted ye seruyce of God.

How moch more shal the bloude of Christ (which thorow the eternall sprete offred him selfe without spot vnto God) pourge oure conscience from deed workes, for to serue the lyuynge God?

sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.

For Christ is not entred into the holy places yt are made with handes (which are but symilitudes of true thinges) but in to the very heauen, for to apeare now before the face of God for vs:

Then sayde I: Lo, I come. I the begynnynge of the boke it is wrytten of me, that I shulde do yi wyll O God.

The sayde he: Lo, I come to do wil thy O God: there taketh he awaye the first, to stablysshe the latter:

But this man whan he had offred for synnes, one sacrifice which is of value for euer, sat him downe on the righte hande of God,

and seynge also that we haue an hye prest ouer the house of God,

Of how moch sorer punyshment (suppose ye) shal he be counted worthy, which treadeth vnder fote the sonne of God, and couteth the bloude of ye Testamet (wherby he is sanctified) an unwholy thinge, & doth dishonoure to the sprete of grace?

It is a fearfull thinge to fall in to the handes of the lyuynge God.

For ye haue nede of pacience, that after ye haue done the wil of God, ye mighte receaue the promes.

Thorow faith we vnderstonde, that the worlde and all the thinges which are sene, were made of naughte by the worde of God.