Therefore we ought to give the greater attention to the things we have heard, for fear we should abandon the gospel.

and again, "I will put my trust in him." and again, "behold, I, and the children which God hath given me.

where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.

for if Joshuah had given them rest, David would not afterwards have mentioned another day.

for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.

"surely I will heap blessings upon thee, and will give thee a numerous posterity."

wherefore God was willing to give the heirs of promise a stronger proof of the immutability of his counsel, by the intervention of an oath:

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?

and officiate in the sanctuary, which was a gross representation of that in heaven, agreeable to the order given by God to Moses, when he projected the tabernacle, "be very exact, said he, in following the model which was laid before thee in the mount."

by faith Rahab having given the spies a safe reception, escap'd being destroyed with unbelievers, tho' she had led a dissolute life.