...his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do then;. Acts xv. 21. Kor Mo«es of old time hath in 'every city them that preach him, being rtad in the synagogues every sabbath-day. 2 Tim. iv. 2. Preach the word, be •inbtant in season, out...

...them in the days of Christ; it was in the law they trusted, and it was the law that condemned them. Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him; but it was not the person of Moses they preached, but his law. Moses was said to be read in the synagogues...

...we seem to have a very eminent example of it in that famous apostolical decree, which commands " to abstain from pollutions of " Idols, and from FORNICATION,...and from things " strangled, and from blood *." For this sense of the term removes a difficulty which will for ever embarrass the Decree, while fornication...

...morning and at the ninth hour, the priests perform their duty at the altar/' XXIX. [p. 462.] Acts xv. 21. "For Moses, of old time, hath, in every city, them that preach him, being read in tlit synagogues every sabbath-day." Joseph, contra Ap. 1. ii. " He (Moses) gave us the law, the most...

...the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we are able to bear?" The sentence of James is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God, Acts xv. 2—19. And now we come to the commission and character of these men. " Forasmuch as we have...

...example of it in that famous apostolical decTfiRwhich commands " to abstain from pollutions:;<rff " Idols, and from FORNICATION, and from things. **• strangled, and from blood *." For this sense. .9! the term removes a difficulty which will for eyejf embarrass the Decree, while fornication...

...closed the debate, and proposed the resolution in which the council ultimately concurred : " Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God." Upon the whole, that there exists a conformity in the expressions used concerning James, throughout...

...church of Chrift was, from the beginning, the defign of Providence : Wherefore, fays he, my opinion is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God. • It is manifeft that this reafoning extends to every part of the ceremonial law, and that the Gentiles...

...Christ for salvation. Only he recommended, that the Council should direct them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood*. For the number of Jews dispersed through Gentile cities, who heard Moses read every Sabbath-day, required...

...respecting the conversion of the Gentiles ; and concluded by offering the following motion : «' Wherefore, my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles have turned unto God ; but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollution of idols, and...