Christ’s Eternal Priesthood

1But of the thinges whiche we haue spoken, this is ye summe: We haue such an hye priest that sitteth on ye ryght hand of ye throne of the maiestie in the heaues, 2A minister of holy thynges, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pight, and not man. 3For euery hye priest is ordeyned to offer gyftes and sacrifices: Wherefore it is of necessitie, that this man haue somewhat also to offer. 4For he were not a priest, yf he were on the earth, seyng there are priestes that accordyng to the lawe offer gyftes, 5Who serue vnto the example and shadowe of heauenly thinges, as Moyses was admonished of God, when he was about to finishe the tabernacle: For see, saith he, that thou make all thynges accordyng to the patterne shewed to thee in the mount.

The New Covenant
(Jeremiah 31:26–40)

6But nowe hath he obteyned a more excellent office, by howe much also he is the mediatour of a better couenaunt, whiche was confirmed in better promises.

7For yf that first couenaunt had ben founde fautlesse, then shoulde no place haue ben sought for the seconde.

8For in rebukyng them, he saith: Beholde the dayes come, saith the Lord, and I wyll finishe vppon the house of Israel and vppon the house of Iuda a newe couenaunt:

9Not lyke that that I made with their fathers, in the day when I toke them by the hande, to leade them out of the lande of Egypt: because they continued not in my couenaunt, and I regarded them not, saith the Lorde.

10For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord, geuyng my lawes into their mynde, and in their heart I wyl write them, and I wyll be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people.

11And they shall not teach euery man his neyghbour, and euery man his brother, saying, knowe the Lorde: for all shall knowe me, from the litle of them to the great of them.

12For I wyll be mercyfull to their vnrighteousnes, and their sinnes and their iniquities wyll I thynke vpon no more.

13In that he sayth a newe couenaunt he hath worne out the first: For that which is worne out and waxed olde, is redie to vanishe away.