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For every hye prest that is taken from amoge men is ordeyned for men in thynges pertaynynge to god: to offer gyftes and sacryfyses for synne:

For the which infirmities sake he is bounde to offer for synnes as well for hys awne parte as for the peoples.

As he also in another place speaketh: Thou arte a prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

For when as cocerninge ye tyme ye ought to be teachers yet have ye nede agayne that we teache you the fyrst principles of the worde of god: and are become soche as have nede of mylke and not of stronge meate:

For every man that is feed with mylke is inexperte in the worde of rightewesnes. For he is but a babe.

For it is not possible yt they which were once lyghted and have tasted of the hevenly gyft and were become partetakers of the holy goost

yf they faule shuld be renued agayne vnto repentaunce: for as moche as they have (as concerninge them selves) crucified the sonne of God a fresshe makynge a mocke of him.

For that erth which drinketh in the rayne wich cometh ofte vpon it and bringeth forth erbes mete for them that dresse it receaveth blessynge of god.

For god is not vnrighteous that he shuld forget youre worke and laboure that procedeth of love which love shewed in his name which have ministred vnto the saynctes and yet minister

For when god made promes to Abraham because he had no greater thinge to sweare by he sware by him silfe

that by two immutable thinges (in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myght have parfect consolacion which have fled for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs

whither ye fore runner is for vs entred in I mea Iesus that is made an hye prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

with out father wt out mother with out kynne and hath nether begynnynge of his tyme nether yet ende of his lyfe: but is lykened vnto the sonne of god and cotinueth a preste for ever.

For he was yet in the loynes of his father Abraham when Melchisech met him.

Yf now therfore perfeccion came by the presthod of the levites (for vnder that presthod the people recaved the lawe) what neded it furthermore that an other prest shuld ryse after the order of Melchisedech and not after the order of Aaron?

For he of whom these thynges are spoken pertayneth vnto another trybe of which never man served at the aultre.

For it is evidet that oure lorde spronge of the trybe of Iuda of which trybe spake Moses nothynge concernynge presthod.

(For he testifieth: Thou arte a prest forever after the order of Melchysedech)

For the lawe made nothynge parfecte: but was an introduccion of a better hope by which hope we drawe nye vnto god.

And for this cause it is a better hope that it was not promysed with out an othe.