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Thou hast put all things in subiection vnder his feete. And in that he hath put all things in subiection vnder him, he left nothing that should not be subiect vnto him. But we yet see not all things subdued vnto him,

Wherefore in all things it behoued him to be made like vnto his brethren, that hee might be mercifull, and a faithfull hie Priest in things concerning God, that he might make reconciliation for the sinnes of the people.

Who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him, euen as Moses was in al his house.

Now Moses verely was faithfull in all his house, as a seruant, for a witnesse of the thinges which should be spoken after.

But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende.

Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce,

So long as it is sayd, To day if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but vnto them yt obeyed not?

Let vs feare therefore, least at any time by forsaking the promes of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to be depriued.

For he spake in a certaine place of the seuenth day on this wise, And God did rest the seuenth day from all his workes.

Againe he appointed in Dauid a certaine day, by To day, after so long a time, saying, as it is sayd, This day, if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.

For he that is entred into his rest, hath also ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.

Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and open vnto his eyes, with whome we haue to doe.

And for the sames sake he is bound to offer for sinnes, as wel for his own part, as for ye peoples.

Who in the dayes of his flesh did offer vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares vnto him, that was able to saue him from death, and was also heard in that which he feared.

For God is not vnrighteous, that hee should forget your worke, and labour of loue, which ye shewed toward his Name, in that ye haue ministred vnto the Saints, and yet minister.

So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

Without father, without mother, without kinred, and hath neither beginning of his dayes, neither ende of life: but is likened vnto the Sonne of God, and continueth a Priest for euer.

For hee was yet in the loynes of his father Abraham, when Melchi-sedec met him.

Which needeth not daily as those hie Priests to offer vp sacrifice, first for his owne sinnes, and then for the peoples: for that did he once, when he offered vp himselfe.