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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God.

of which in a certain place relating to the seventh day, 'tis said, "and God did rest the seventh day from all his works."

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his.

for the word of God is active and efficacious, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even to the division of soul and spirit, to the smallest and most inward parts, distinguishing the thoughts, and intentions of the heart.

who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. for we have

to himself the honour of the priesthood: he must be called thereto by God, as Aaron was.

for tho' he was the son of God, yet he found by his own sufferings what it was to obey,

God having declared him an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

of which we shall treat another time, if God permit.

if they shall fall away, to re-instate themselves by repentance: seeing, as far in them lies, they crucify the son of God afresh, and expose him to open shame.

for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.

For when God gave his promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying,

wherefore God was willing to give the heirs of promise a stronger proof of the immutability of his counsel, by the intervention of an oath:

that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

For this Melchisedec was both king of Salem, and a priest of the most high God; 'twas he who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

without father, without mother, without genealogy; his days have no beginning, and his life no end; but like the son of God, he was a perpetual priest.

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

and officiate in the sanctuary, which was a gross representation of that in heaven, agreeable to the order given by God to Moses, when he projected the tabernacle, "be very exact, said he, in following the model which was laid before thee in the mount."

but this is the alliance that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.