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

Since there remains then a rest which some are still to enter into, for they to whom the promise was first made, did not enter in, because of their incredulity;

so that there is not a creature that is concealed from his view: but all is naked and open to the eyes of him of whom we speak. Having then so great a high priest,

besides here they that receive tithes are men who die: but there 'twas he of whom it is testified that he liveth.

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?

for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar.

for if the first alliance had been without defect, there could have been no occasion for the second.

there was the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant gilded all over with gold, wherein was the golden urn containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the alliance.

For where a testament is, there the death of the testator is necessarily pre-suppos'd.

and indeed according to the law almost every thing is purified with blood, without the effusion of which, there is no remission of sins.

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

for if we wilfully apostatize, after having received the knowledge of the truth, it is as a sin for which there is no sacrifice appointed.

let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."