they shall perish, but thou shalt remain: and they all shall come to an end like an old garment;

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

and have known by experience the truth of the divine promises, and the miracles of the age that was to come; it is impossible,

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

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:

but Christ, the high priest of a better dispensation that was to come, having appeared, is enter'd into the holy of holys by a nobler and more perfect tabernacle, not the effect of human art, but of a higher nature;

then said I, lo I come, as in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God."

he immediately adds, "lo, I come to do thy WILL, O God." he abolishes the first to establish the second:

only wait but a little while, and he that is to come, will come without delay.

but you are come to mount Sion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable congress of angels, to the general assembly,

know, that our brother Timothy is set at liberty. if he comes quickly, I shall make YOU a visit with him.