le to
their unrighteousnesses and their sins, and their iniquities I will
never more remember[136]." (13)In calling it a new covenant, he hath
made the first antiquated. Now what is antiquated and grown aged, is
near evanescence.

CHAP. IX.

THEN also the first tabernacle had indeed regulations for the divine
service, and a sanctuary furnished. (2)For the tabernacle was prepared;
the first part, in which was both the candlestick, and the table, and
the shew-bread, which is called the holy. (3)But behind the second vail
was the tabernacle, called the holy of holies: (4)having the golden
censer, and the coffer of the covenant, overlaid with gold within and
without, in which were the golden urn containing the manna, and Aaron's
rod which had budded, and the stone tables of the covenant; (5)and
above, over it the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the propitiatory.
(6)Now when these things were thus disposed, the priests entered
continually into the first tabernacle indeed, performing the divine
services: (7)but into the second once in every year entered the
high-priest alone, not without blood, which he offered for his own
inadvertencies, and for those of the people: (8)the Holy Ghost thus
signifying, that the way into the holies was not yet made manifest,
whilst the first tabernacle held its station; (9)which figurative
representation _continues_ unto the present time, according to which
both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, with respect to
conscience, make him perfect who performs the services, (10)as they
consist only of meats, and drinks, and different ablutions, and
corporal services, until the appointed time of perfect reformation.

(11)But Christ becoming the high-priest of future good things, through
a better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not
of this creation; (12)nor by the blood of goats and of calves, but by
his own blood, he entered once for all into the holies, having obtained
eternal redemption.

(13)For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth to corporal purification, (14)how
much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit,
offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our
conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the
living God?

(15)And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that,
death being suffered for the redemption of tra