this

(For those Priests were made without an oath: but this with an oath, by him y t said vnto him, The Lord sware and wil not repent, thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec)

1611 marginal noteOr, without swearing of an othe.

1611 marginal notePsa. 110.4

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

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

Who needeth not daily, as those high Priests, to offer vp sacrifice, first for his owne sins and then for the peoples: for this he did once, when he offered vp himselfe.

¶ Now of the things which we haue spoken, this is the summe: wee haue such an high Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Maiestie in the heauens:

For euery high Priest is ordeined to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessitie that this man haue somewhat also to offer.

For this is the Couenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord: I wil put my Lawes into their minde, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people.

1611 marginal noteGr. giue.

1611 marginal noteOr, vpon.

1611 marginal noteIer. 31.33.

The holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the Holiest of all, was not yet made manifest, while as the first Tabernacle was yet standing:

But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building:

And for this cause hee is the Mediatour of the New Testament, that by meanes of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first Testament, they which are called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.

Saying, This is the blood of the Testament which God hath enioyned vnto you.