Bishops(i)
20 Whyther the forerunner is for vs entred [euen] Iesus, after the order of Melchisedech made a priest for euer
7 1 For this Melchisedech kyng of Salem, priest of the most hye God, who met Abraham returnyng from the slaughter of the kynges, and blessed hym
2 To whom also Abraham gaue tythe of all thynges, first being called by interpretatio king of righteousnes, & after yt also, kyng of Salem, which is, kyng of peace
3 Without father, without mother, without kynne, hauyng neither beginnyng of dayes, neither ende of lyfe, but lykened vnto the sonne of God, and continueth a priest for euer
4 Nowe consider howe great this [man] was, vnto whom also the patriarche Abraham gaue tythe of the spoyles
5 And veryly they which are of the children of Leuie, which receaue the office of the priesthood, haue a commaundement to take tythe of the people accordyng to the lawe, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of ye loynes of Abraham
6 But he whose kynrede is not counted among them, receaued tythe of Abraham, and blessed hym that had the promises
7 And without all controuersie, the lesse is blessed of the better
8 And here men that dye, receaue tithes: but there he [receaueth them] of whom it is witnessed that he lyueth
9 And to say the trueth, Leuie also whiche receaueth tythes, payed tythes in Abraham
10 For he was yet in the loynes of his father, when Melchisedech met Abraham