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Hauing damnation, because they haue cast off their first faith.

And they that haue beleeuing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren: but rather doe them seruice, because they are faithfull and beloued, partakers of the benefite: These things teach and exhort.

1611 marginal noteOr, beleeuing.

For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

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

Seeing therfore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entred not in because of vnbeleefe:

1611 marginal noteOr, the Gospel was first preached.

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

And they truely were many Priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.

But this man because hee continueth euer, hath an vnchangeable Priesthood.

1611 marginal noteOr, which passeth not from one to another.

Not according to the Couenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I tooke them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my Couenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For then would they not haue ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes?