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¹ Therefore leauyng the doctrine of the begynnyng of Christe, let vs go foorth vnto perfection, not laying agayne the foundatio of repentaunce from dead workes, and of fayth towarde God,² Of the doctrine of baptismes, and of laying on of handes, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternall iudgement.³ And this wyll I do, yf God permit.⁴ For it can not be that they which were once lighted, and haue tasted of the heauenly gyft, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,⁵ And haue tasted of the good worde of God, and the powers of the worlde to come:⁶ And they fall away, shoulde be renued agayne into repentaunce, hauyng crucified to the selues the sonne of God a fresshe, and made a mocke of hym.⁷ For the earth which drynketh in the rayne that commeth oft vppon it, and bringeth foorth hearbes meete for them by whom also it is dressed, receaueth blessyng of God:⁸ But that grounde whiche beareth thornes and bryers, is reproued, and is nye vnto cursyng, whose ende is to be burned.

⁹ Neuerthelesse, deare frendes, we haue perswaded our selues better thynges of you, and thynges whiche accompanie saluation, though we thus speake.¹⁰ For God is not vnryghteous, to forget your worke & labour of loue, whiche ye haue shewed towarde his name, hauyng ministred to the saintes, and [do] minister.¹¹ Yea and we desire that euery one of you do shewe the same diligence, to the full assuraunce of hope, vnto the ende,¹² That ye faynt not, but be folowers of them which through fayth and pacience inherite the promises.¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by hym selfe,¹⁴ Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee.¹⁵ And so after that he had taryed paciently, he enioyed the promise.¹⁶ For men veryly sweare by the greater, and an oth for confirmation, is to them an ende of all stryfe.¹⁷ Wherein God wyllyng very aboundauntly to shewe vnto the heires of promise, the stablenesse of his counsayle, confirmed by an oth:¹⁸ That by two immutable thynges, in whiche it was vnpossible for God to lye, we myght haue a strong consolation, which haue fledde to holde fast the hope layde before vs:¹⁹ Which [hope] we holde as an ancker of the soule both sure and stedfast, and entryng in, into that thing which is within the vayle:²⁰ Whyther the forerunner is for vs entred [euen] Iesus, after the order of Melchisedech made a priest for euer.