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If therefore perfection were by the Leuiticall Priesthood (for vnder it the people receiued the Law) what further neede was there, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not bee called after the order of Aaron?

For the Priesthood being chaunged, there is made of necessitie a change also of the Law.

For hee of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gaue attendance at the Altar.

For it is euident that our Lorde sprang out of Iuda, of which tribe Moses spake nothing cocerning Priesthood.

And it is yet farre more euident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another Priest,

Who is made not after the Law of a carnall commandement, but after the power of an endles life.

For hee testifieth; Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchisedec.

For there is verily a disanulling of the commandement going before, for the weakenesse and vnprofitablenesse thereof.

For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did: by the which wee draw nigh vnto God.