nimself often, as the high-priest en- of me that I should do thy will, O tereth into the Holies, every year God. with the blood of others:

26 For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and, after this, the judgment:

8 In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

9 Then said 1, Behold I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

10 In the which will, we are 28 So also Christ was offered sanctified by the oblation of the once to exhaust the sins of many, body of JESUS Christ once. the second time he shall appear without sin to them, that expect him, unto salvation.

CHAP. X.

He exhorts them to perseverance.
NOR the law having a shadow

11 And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth

Fofthe good things to come, not on the right hand of God.

the very image of the things: by the self-same sacrifices, which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect :

13 From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are

2 For then they would have ceas-sanctified. ed to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer :

3 But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sins should be taken away.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:

6 Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

7 Then said 1: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written

15 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said :

16 And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their

minds will I write them:

17 And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

18 Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the Holies by the blood of Christ:

sacrifice upon the cross, he has furnished the full ransom, redemption, and remedy for all the sins of the world. But this hinders not but that he may offer himself daily in the sacred mysteries in an unbloody manner, for the daily application of that one sacrifice of redemp tion to our souls.

Ver. 2. They would have ceased. If they had been of themselves perfect to all the intents of redemption and remission, as Christ's death is, there would have been no occasion of so often repeating them; as there is no occasion for Christ's dying any more for our sins. Ver. 18. There is no more an oblation for sin. Where there is a full remission of sins, as in baptism; there is no more occasion for a sin offering to be made for such sins already remitted; and as for sins committed afterwards they can only be remitted in virtue of the one oblation of Christ's death

tions.

20 A new and living way which you endured a great fight of afflicne hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, 21 And a high-priest over the house of God:

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our nearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto charity and to good works:

25 Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed, but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

26 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

28 A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

33 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations were made a gazing stock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.

34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting sub

stance.

35 Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.

36 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.

38 But my just man liveth by faith but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul. CHAP. XI. What is faith.

OW faith is the substance of 29 How much more, do you things to be hoped for, the evithings to think he deserveth worse punish-dence of things that appear not. ments who hath trodden under foot 2 For by this the ancients obtainthe Son of God, and hath esteemed ed a testimony.

the blood of the testament unclean, 3 By faith we understand that the by which he was sanctified, and world was framed by the word of hath offered an affront to the Spirit God; that from invisible things of grace? visible things might be made.

30 For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 But call to mind the former days wherein, being illuminated,

4 By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5 By faith Henoch was translated, that he should not see death,

Ver. 26. If we sin wilfully. He speaks of the sin of wilful apostacy from the known truth after which, as we cannot be baptized again, we cannot expect to have that abundant remission of sins, which Christ purchased by his death, applied to our souls in that ample manner as it is in baptism; but we have rather all manner of reason to look for a dreadful judgment; the more because apostates from the known truth seldom or never have grace to return to it.

and he was not found, because God had translated him': For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.

that they are pilgrims and stranger on the earth.

16 But now they desire a better,

14 For they that say these things, do signify that they seek a country.. 6 But without faith it is impossi- 15 And truly if they had been ble to please God. For he that mindful of that from whence they cometh to God, must believe that came out, they had doubtless time he is, and is a rewarder to them to return. that seek him. 7 By faith Noe having received that is to say, a heavenly country. an answer concerning those things Therefore God is not ashamed to which as yet were not seen, moved be called their God: for he hath with fear framed the ark for the prepared for them a city. saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world: and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten Son,

18 (To whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called.)

8 By faith he that is called Abraham, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an in- 19 Accounting that God is able heritance and he went out, not to raise up even from the dead knowing whither he went. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.

9 By faith he abode in the land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob the co-heirs of the same promise.

10 For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.

11 By faith Sara also herself, being barren,received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age because she believed that he was faithful who had promised.

12 For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable.

13 All these died according to faith not having received the promises, but beholding them, afar off, and saluting them, and confessing

20 By faith also of things to come, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

21 By faith Jacob dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and adored the top of his rod.

22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying made mention of the going out of the children of Israel: and gave commandment concerning his bones.

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter:

25 Rather chusing to be afflicted with the people of God than to

Ver. 8. He that is called Abraham; or, Abraham being called.

Ver. 19. For a parable. That is, as a figure of Christ, slain and coming to life again, Ver. 21. Adored the top of his rod. The apostle here follows the ancient Greek Bible of the 70 interpreters, (which translates in this manner. Gen. 47, v. 31.) and alleges this fact of Jacob, in paying a relative honour and veneration to the top of the rod or sceptre of Jo. seph, as to a figure of Christ's sceptre and kingdom, as an instance and argument of his faith. But Protestants, who are no friends to this reiative honour, have corrupted the text by translating it, he worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff; as if this circumstance of leaning upon his staff were any argument of Jacob's faith, or worthy the being thus particu arly taken notice of by the Holy Ghost.

9 But we see JESUS, who was made a little lower than the an12 And as a vesture shalt thou gels, for the suffering of death, change them, and they shall be crowned with glory and honour: changed but thou art the self- that through the grace of God he same, and thy years shall not fail. might taste death for all. 13 But to which of the angels said he at any time: Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool:

14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

15 While it is said, To-day if you

WHEREFORE, holy breth shall hear his voice harden not your

ren, partakers of the heaven-hearts as in that provocation.

ly vocation, consider the apostle 16 For some who heard did and high-priest of our confession provoke: but not all that came out JESUS. of Egypt by Moses.