God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON,

but Jesus, who was for a while inferior to the angels by his sufferings and death, we see was crown'd with glory and honour; when by the divine goodness, he had pass'd thro' death for every man.

now 'tis past dispute, he that is blessed is inferior to him that blesses:

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

'Twas likewise through faith that Sara, though barren, received the power of becoming pregnant, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born.