'Tis not therefore to the angels that he has subjected the gospel state of which we are treating.

Since then the children were made subject to a state of mortality, so he himself likewise was subject to the same condition: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery.

for having himself stood the test of sufferings, he is capable of being moved to relieve those who undergo such tryals.

for though by this time you ought to be capable of teaching others, you want to be instructed anew in the first principles of the divine oracles; and are in such a state as to stand in need of milk, rather than of solid nourishment.

but he, by virtue of his immortal state, hath a priesthood that does not pass by succession.

For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves.

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.