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For when God made promise to Abraham, because hee could sweare by no greater, he sware by himselfe,

Saying, Surely, blessing I will blesse thee, and multiplying I wil multiply thee.

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

For men verily sweare by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

Wherein God willing more abundantly to shewe vnto the heyres of promise the immutabilitie of his counsell, confirmed it by an oath:

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, wee might haue a strong consolation, who haue fled for refuge to lay hold vpon the hope set before vs.

Which hope we haue as an anker of the soule both sure and stedfast, and which entreth into that within the vaile,

Whither the forerunner is for vs entrrd; euen Iesus, made an high Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec.