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who was not establish'd by virtue of a temporary law, but with the power of being a perpetual priest.

for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

Besides those priests were establish'd without any oath: but this with an oath,

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

for the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections.

but this is the alliance that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

now by stiling the second a new alliance, he has antiquated the first. but to be antiquated and obsolete is next to being abolished.

These things being thus disposed, the priests went at all times into the first part of the tabernacle, to officiate the divine service. but into the other part,

the high priest only enter'd, and that but once every year, when he carried the blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.

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;

nor with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he enter'd once for all into the holy of holys, after having obtained for us an eternal redemption.

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

for Christ is not entred into a sanctuary made by human art, such as is only representative of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear from henceforth in the presence of God on our behalf:

as then it is appointed that men should die but once, after which the judgment ensues;

wherefore at his appearing in publick, he saith, "sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

as some do; but encourage one another: even so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

and nothing is to be expected but that dreadful judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour all such adversaries.

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

the just shall have life by trusting in me, but if he revolt, he will be the object of my displeasure.

as for us, we are not such as desert to their own destruction; but such as persevere in the faith, to the saving of our souls.