Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God.

but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

for the word of God is active and efficacious, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even to the division of soul and spirit, to the smallest and most inward parts, distinguishing the thoughts, and intentions of the heart.

Besides those priests were establish'd without any oath: but this with an oath,

so Christ being once offered up to take away the sins of many; he shall appear the second time, without making any further expiation to save those who expect him.

for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:

now where they are remitted, there is no need of any further oblation for sin.

'Tis by faith we learn that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the visible world was not made out of any thing that did appear.

You do not approach to any thing corporeal, to scorching fire, to smoak, darkness, and tempest,