so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

We are partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end the beginning of the first substance,

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

Men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves; And an oath to confirm the thing, is among them an end of all strife.

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast. Which hope also entereth in, into those things which are within the veil,

Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

Faith is a sure confidence of things which are hoped for, and a certainty of things which are not seen.

Through faith Sarah also received strength to be with child, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.