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THat fyrst tabernacle verely had ordina¦unces / and servynges of god / & wordly [ A] holynes. ✚ For there was a fore taber¦nacle made / wherin was the candlesticke / and the table / and the shewe breed / which is called wholy. But with in the secōde vayle was ther a tabernacle / which is called holiest of all / which had the golden senser / and the arcke of
the testamēt overlayde round about with gol∣de / wherin was the golden pot with manna / and Aarons rodde that spronge / and the ta∣bles of the testament. Over the arcke were the cherubis of glory shadowynge the seate of grace. Of which thynges / we wyll not now speake perticularly. [ B]
When these thynges were thus ordeyned / the prestes went all wayes into the fyrst ta∣bernacle & executed the service of god. But into the seconde went the hye prest alone / on∣ce every yeare: and not with out bloud / which he offered for him silfe / and for the ignoraun∣ce of ye people. Wherwith ye holy goost this signifyeng / yt the waye of holy thynge / was not yet opēned / whill as yet ye fyrst tabernacle was stondynge. Which was a similitude for [ C] the tyme then present / and in which were of∣fered gyftes and sacrifises that coulde not make them that minister parfecte / as pertay∣nynge to the conscience / with only meates & drinkes / and divers wesshynges and iustifyin¦ges of the flesshe / which were ordeyned vn∣tyll the tyme of reformacion.
✚ But Christ beynge an hye prest of good thynges to come / came by a greater and a mo∣are parfecte tabernacle / not made with hon∣des: [ D] that is to saye / not of this maner bildyn∣ge / nether by the bloud of gotes and calves: but by his awne bloud we entred once for all into the holy place / and founde eternall redem¦cion. ✚ For yf the bloud of ox•••• and of Gotes* 1.1 & the asshes of an heyfer / whē it was sprynck¦led
/ puryfied the vnclene / as touchynge* 1.2 the purifiynge of the flesshe: How moche mo∣re shall the bloud of Christ (which thorow the eternall sprete / offered him silfe with out spot to God) pourdge youre consciences from deed workes for to serve the livynge god?
And for this cause is he the mediator of ye newe testament / that thorow deeth which cha¦unsed [ E] for the redempcion of those transgressi∣ons that were in ye fyrst testamēt) they which were called / myght receave the promes of eter¦nall inheritaunce. ✚ For whersoever is a testa¦ment / there must also be the deeth of him that* 1.3 maketh the testament. For the testament ta∣keth auctoritie when men are deed: For it is of no value as longe as he that made it is a li¦ve. For which cause also / nether that fyrst te∣stament was ordeyned with out bloud. For [ F] when all the commaundementes were redde of Moses vnto all the people / he toke ye bloud of calves and of Gotes / with water and pur∣ple* 1.4 woll and ysope / and sprynkled both the boke and all the people / sayinge: this is the bloud of the testament which god hath apoyn¦ted vnto you. Morover / he sprenkled the ta∣bernacle with bloud also / and all the mini∣strynge vessels. And almost all thynges / are bye the lawe / pourged with bloud / and with out effusion of bloud / is no remission. [ G]
It is then nede that the similitudes of he∣venly thynges be purified with soche thyn∣ges: but the hevenly thynges them selves are purified with better sacrifises then are those.
For Christ is not entred into the holy places that are made with hondes / which are but si∣militudes [ D] of true thynges: but is entred into very heven / for to appere now in the syght of God for vs: not to offer him silfe often / as the hye prest entreth in to ye holy place every yeare with straunge bloud / for then must he have of ten suffered sence the worlde begā. But now in the ende of the worlde / hath he appered on¦ce / to put synne to flyght / by the offerynge vp of him silfe. And as it is apoynted vnto men that they shall once dye / and then commeth the iudgement / even so Christ was once offe∣red to take a waye the synnes of many / and* 1.5 vnto them that loke for him / shall he appeare agayne without synne / vnto saluacion.
••eu. xvj. c
j. pet. j. d. j. io. j. d. apoc. j. d. j. pet. iij. rom. v. b.
gala. iij. b
genesis .xxiiij.
rom. v. b. ••. pet. iij. c