The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Seynge brethren that by the meanes of the bloud of Iesu we maye be bolde to enter into that holy place

by the newe and livynge waye which he hath prepared for vs through the vayle that is to saye by his flesshe.

And seynge also that we have an hye prest which is ruler over the housse of god

let vs drawe nye with a true herte in a full fayth sprynckeled in oure hertes from an evyll conscience and wesshed in oure bodies with pure water

and let vs kepe the profession of oure hope with oute waveringe (for he is faythfull that promysed)

and let vs consyder one another to provoke vnto love and to good workes:

and let vs not forsake the felishippe that we have amonge oure selves as the maner of some is: but let vs exhorte one another and that so moche the more because ye se that the daye draweth nye.

For yf we synne willyngly after that we have receaved the knowledge of the trueth there remayneth no more sacrifice for synnes

but a fearfull lokynge for iudgement and violent fyre which shall devoure the adversaries

He that despiseth Moses lawe dyeth with out mercy vnder two or thre witnesses.

Of how moche sorer punyshment suppose ye shall he be counted worthy which treadeth vnderfote the sonne of god: and counteth the bloude of the testament as an vnholy thynge wherwith he was sanctified and doth dishonoure to the sprete of grace.

For we knowe him that hath sayde vengeaunce belongeth vnto me I will recompence sayth the lorde. And agayne: the lorde shall iudge his people.

It is a fearfull thynge to faule into the hondes of the livynge God.

Call to remembraunce the dayes that are passed in the which after ye had receaved light ye endured a greate fyght in adversities

partly whill all men wondred and gased at you for the shame and trioulacion that was done vnto you and partly whill ye became companyons of the which so passed their tyme.

For ye suffered also with my bondes and toke a worth the spoylynge of youre goodes and that with gladnes knowynge in youre selves how that ye had in heven a better and an endurynge substaunce

Cast not awaye therfore youre confidence which hath great rewarde to recompence.

For ye have nede of paciece that after ye have done the will of god ye myght receave the promes.

For yet a very lytell whyle and he that shall come will come and will not tary.

But the iust shall live by faith. And yf he withdrawe him silfe my soule shall have no pleasure in him.

We are not whiche withdrawe oure selves vnto dampnacion but partayne to fayth to the wynnynge of the soule.

Fayth is a sure confidence of thynges which are hoped for and a certayntie of thynges which are not sene.

By it the elders were well reported of.

Thorow fayth we vnderstonde that the worlde was ordeyned by the worde of god: and that thynges which are sene were made of thynges which are not sene.

By fayth Abell offered vnto god a more plenteous sacrifice then Cayn: by which he obteyned witnes that he was righteous god testifyinge of his gyftes: by which also he beynge deed yet speaketh.

By fayth was Enoch traslated that he shuld not se deeth: nether was he founde: for God had taken him awaye. Before he was taken awaye he was reported of that he had pleased God:

but with out fayth it is vnpossible to please him. For he that commeth to God must beleve that God is and that he is a rewarder of them that seke him.

By fayth Noe honored God after that he was warned of thinges which were not sene and prepared the arcke to the savinge of his houssholde thorowe the which arcke he condempned the worlde and became heyre of the rightewesnes which commeth by fayth.

By fayth Abraham when he was called obeyed to goo out into a place which he shuld afterwarde receave to inheritaunce and he wet out not knowynge whether he shuld goo.

By fayth he removed into the londe that was promysed him as into a straunge countre and dwelt in tabernacles: and so dyd Isaac and Iacob heyres with him of the same promes.

For he loked for a citie havinge a foundacion whose bylder and maker is God.

Thorow fayth Sara also receaved stregth to be with chylde and was delivered of a chylde when she was past age because she iudged him faythfull which had promysed.

And therfore spronge therof one (and of one which was as good as deed) so many in multitude as the starres of the skye and as the sond of the see shore which is innumerable.

And they all dyed in fayth and receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of and beleved them and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.

They that saye soche thinges declare that they seke a countre.

Also yf they had bene myndfull of that countre from whence they came oute they had leasure to have returned agayne.

But now they desyre a better that is to saye a hevenlye. Wherfore God is not ashamed of them even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

In fayth Abraham offered vp Isaac when he was tempted and he offered him beinge his only begotten sonne which had receaved the promyses

of whom it was sayde in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

for he considered that God was able to rayse vp agayne from deeth. Wherfore receaved he him for an ensample.

In fayth Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau concerninge thinges to come.

By fayth Iacob when he was a dyinge blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph and bowed him selfe towarde the toppe of his cepter.

By fayth Ioseph when he dyed remembred the departinge of the chyldren of Israel and gave commaundement of his bones.

By fayth Moses when he was borne was hid thre monethes of his father and mother be cause they sawe he was a proper chylde: nether feared they the kynges commaundement.

By fayth Moses when he was great refused to be called the sonne of Pharaos doughter

and chose rather to suffre adversitie with the people of God then to enioye the pleasurs of synne for a ceason

and estemed the rebuke of Christ greater ryches then the treasure of Egypt. For he had a respect vnto the rewarde.

By fayth he forsoke Egypt and feared not the fearcenes of the kynge. For he endured even as he had sene him which is invisible.

Thorow fayth he ordeyned the ester lambe and the effusion of bloud lest he that destroyed the fyrst borne shuld touche them.

By fayth they passed thorow the reed see as by drye londe which when the Egypcians had assayed to do they were drouned.

By fayth the walles of Ierico fell doune after they were compased about seven dayes.

By fayth the harlot Raab perisshed not with the vnbelevers when she had receaved the spyes to lodgynge peaseably.

And what shall I more saye the tyme wold be to short for me to tell of Gedeo of Barach and of Samson and of Iephthae: also of David and Samuel and of the Prophetes:

which thorowe fayth subdued kyngdomes wrought righteousnes obteyned the promyses stopped the mouthes of lyons

quenched the violence of fyre escaped the edge of the swearde of weake were made stroge waxed valient in fight turned to flyght the armyes of the alientes.

And the wemen receaved their deed raysed to lyfe agayne. Other were racked and wolde not be delyvered that they myght receave a better resurreccion.

Other tasted of mockynges and scourginginges morover of bondes and presonment:

were stoned were hewen a sunder were tepted were slayne with sweardes walked vppe and doune in shepes skynnes in gotes skynnes in nede tribulacion and vexacion

which the worlde was not worthy of: they wadred in wildernes in moutaynes in dennes and caves of the erth.

And these all thorow fayth obtayned good reporte and receaved not the promes

God provydinge a better thinge for vs that they with out vs shuld not be made parfecte.

Wherfore let vs also (seynge that we are compased with so great a multitude of witnesses) laye awaye all that presseth doune and the synne that hangeth on and let vs rune with pacience vnto the battayle that is set before vs

lokynge vnto Iesus the auctor and fynnyssher of oure fayth which for the ioye that was set before him abode the crosse and despysed the shame and is set doune on the right honde of the trone of God.

Consider therfore how that he endured suche speakinge agaynst him of synners lest ye shuld be weried and faynte in youre myndes.

For ye have not yet resisted vnto bloud sheddinge stryvinge agaynst synne.

And ye have forgotten the consolacion which speaketh vnto you as vnto chyldren: My sonne despyse not the chastenynge of the Lorde nether faynt when thou arte rebuked of him:

For whom the Lorde loveth him he chasteneth: yee and he scourgeth every sonne that he receaveth.

Yf ye endure chastninge God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that whom the father chasteneth not?

If ye be not vnder correccion (where of all are part takers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes.

Moreover seynge we had fathers of oure flesshe which corrected vs and we gave them reverence: shuld we not moche rather be in subieccion vnto the father of spretuall gyftes that we myght live?

And they verely for a feaue dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he learneth vs vnto that which is proffitable that we myght receave of his holines.

No manner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyeous but greveous: neverthelesse afterwarde it bryngeth the quyet frute of rightewesnes vnto them which are therin exercysed.

Stretch forthe therfore agayne the hondes which were let doune and the weake knees

and se that ye have strayght steppes vnto youre fete lest eny haltinge turne out of the waye: yee let it rather be healed.

Embrace peace with all men and holynes: with out the which no man shall se the Lorde.

And looke to that no man be destitute of the grace of God and that no rote of bitternes springe vp and trouble and therby many be defiled:

and that there be no fornicator or vnclene person as Esau which for one breakfast solde his birthright.

Ye knowe how that afterwarde when he wolde have inherited the blessinge he was put by and he foude no meanes to come therby agayne: no though he desyred it with teares.

For ye are not come vnto the mounte that can be touched and vnto burninge fyre nor yet to myst and darcknes and tempest of wedder

nether vnto the sounde of a trope and the voyce of wordes: which voyce they that hearde it wisshed awaye that the communicacion shuld not be spoken to them.

For they were not able to abyde that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountayne it must have bene stoned or thrust thorowe with a darte:

even so terreble was the sight which appered. Moses sayde I feare and quake.

But ye are come vnto the mounte Sion and to the citie of the livinge god the celestiall Ierusalem: and to an innumerable sight of angels

and vnto the congregacion of the fyrst borne sonnes which are writte in heven and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and parfecte men

and to Iesus the mediator of the newe testament and to the spryncklynge of bloud that speaketh better then the bloud of Abell.

Se that ye despise not him that speaketh. For yf they escaped not which refused him that spake on erth: moche more shall we not escape yf we turne awaye from him that speaketh from heven:

whose voyce the shouke the erth and now declareth sayinge: yet once more will I shake not the erth only but also heven.

No dout that same that he sayth yet once more signifieth the removinge a waye of those thinges which are shaken as of thinges which have ended their course: that the thynges which are not shaken maye remayne.

Wherfore if we receave a kyngdom which is not moved we have grace wherby we maye serve god and please him with reverence and godly feare.

For oure god is a consumynge fyre.

Let brotherly love continue.

Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers. For therby have dyvers receaved angels into their houses vnwares.

Remember them that are in bondes even as though ye were bounde with them. Be myndfull of them which are in adversitie as ye which are yet in youre bodies.

Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes and let the chamber be vndefiled: for whore kepers and advoutrars god will iudge.

Let youre conversacion be with out coveteousnes and be content with that ye have all redy. For he verely sayd: I will not fayle the nether forsake the:

that we maye boldly saye: the lorde is my helper and I will not feare what man doeth vnto me.

Remember them which have the oversight of you which have declared vnto you the worde of god. The ende of whose conversacion se that ye looke vpon and folowe their fayth.

Iesus Christ yesterdaye and to daye and the same continueth for ever.

Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge. For it is a good thynge that the herte be stablisshed with grace and not with meates which have not proffeted them that have had their pastyme in them.

We have an altre wherof they maye not eate which serve in the tabernacle.