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Euen so must their wiues be graue; not slanderers, sober, faithfull in all things.

O Timothie, keepe that which is committed to thy trust, auoyding prophane and vaine bablings, and oppositions of science, fasly so called:

Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the trueth: men of corrupt mindes, reprobate concerning the faith.

Being made so much better then the Angels, as hee hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent Name then they.

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great saluation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed vnto vs by them that heard him,

So I sware in my wrath: they shall not enter into my rest.

So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeleefe.

Againe, hee limiteth a certaine day, saying in Dauid, To day, after so long a time; as it is saide, To day if ye will heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.

And by reason heereof hee ought as for the people, so also for himselfe, to offer for sinnes.

So also, Christ glorified not himselfe, to bee made an High Priest: but hee that saide vnto him, Thou art my Sonne, to day haue I begotten thee.

And so after he had patiently indured, he obtained the promise.

And as I may so say, Leui also who receiueth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better Testament.

So Christ was once offered to beare the sinnes of many, & vnto them that looke for him shall hee appeare the second time without sinne, vnto saluation.

Not forsaking the assembling of our selues together, as the manner of some is: but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approching.

Partly whilest ye were made a gazing stocke both by reproches & afflictions, and partly whilest ye became companions of them that were so vsed.

Through faith we vnderstand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seene were not made of things which doe appeare.

Therfore sprang there euen of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the starres of the skie in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Wherefore, seeing wee also are compassed about with so great a cloude of witnesses, let vs lay aside euery weight, & the sinne which doth so easily beset vs, and let vs runne with patience vnto the race that is set before vs,

For they could not indure that which was commaunded: And if so much as a beast touch the Mountaine, it shall be stoned, or thrust thorow with a dart.