Bishops(i)
13 These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth
14 For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey
15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that [countrey] from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned
16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie
17 By fayth Abraham offered by Isaac when he was proued: and he that had receaued the promises, offered vp his only begotten sonne
18 To whom it was saide, that in Isaac shall thy seede be called
19 For he considered that God was able to rayse the dead vp agayne, fro whence also he receaued hym in a similitude [of the resurrection.
20 By fayth did Isaac blesse Iacob and Esau, concernyng thynges to come
21 By fayth Iacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph, and worshypped towarde the toppe of his scepter
22 By fayth Ioseph when he dyed, remembred the departyng of the chyldren of Israel, and gaue commaundement of his bones
23 By fayth Moyses whe he was borne, was hyd three monethes of his father and mother, because they sawe he was a proper chylde, neither feared they the kynges commaundement
24 By fayth Moyses when he was great, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaos daughter
25 Chosyng rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season
26 Esteemyng the rebuke of Christ, greater riches, then the treasures of Egypt: For he had respect vnto the recompence of the rewarde
27 By fayth he forsoke Egypt, fearyng not the wrath of the kyng: For he endured, euen as though he had seene him which is inuisible