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  • 1. Therfore holy brethren, partakers of the celestiall callyng, consider the apostle and hye priest of our profession Christe Iesus,
  • 2. Beyng faythfull to hym that appoynted hym, as also [was] Moyses in all his house.
  • 3. For this [man] is counted worthy of more glorie then Moyses, inasmuch as he which hath buylded the house, hath more honour then the house.
  • 4. For euery house is buylded of some man: But he that buylded all thynges, is God.
  • 5. And Moyses veryly [was] faythfull in al his house, as a minister, for a witnesse of those thynges whiche were to be spoken after:
  • 6. But Christe as a sonne [hath rule] ouer his owne house, whose house are we, yf we holde fast the confidence and the reioycyng of that hope vnto the ende.
  • 7. Wherfore, as the holy ghost saith: Today yf ye wyll heare his voyce,
  • 8. Harden not your heartes, as in the prouokyng, in the day of the temptation in the wyldernesse,
  • 9. Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, and sawe my workes 40 yeres.
  • 10. Wherfore I was greeued with that generation, and sayde: they do alway erre in heart, they veryly haue not knowen my wayes.
  • 11. So that I sware in my wrath, yf they shall enter into my rest.
  • 12. Take heede brethren, lest at any tyme there be in you an euyll heart of vnbeliefe, to depart from the lyuyng God:
  • 13. But exhort ye one another dayly, whyle it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened, through the deceytfulnesse of sinne.
  • 14. For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
  • 15. So long as it is said: to day yf ye wyll heare his voyce, harden not your heartes, as in the prouokyng.
  • 16. For some when they had hearde, dyd prouoke: howe be it, not all that came out of Egypt by Moyses.
  • 17. But with whom was he displeased fourtie yeres? Not with them that had sinned, whose carkases fell in the desert?
  • 18. And to who sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but vnto them that were not obedient?
  • 19. And we see that they coulde not enter in, because of vnbeliefe.