nor for that reproach, which was made to our fathers, where 'tis said, "behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new alliance with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

He hath

If therefore the Levitical priesthood, concerning which the people received a law, could have given perfection, what further need was there that another priest should rise, to be named after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?

This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates

Ready

heaven and earth may fail, but my words shall never fail.

Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

General references

but new wine must be put into new skins, and both will be preserv'd.