^{17 Ref} in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

^{18 Ref} that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',

^{19 Ref} which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,