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x Theſe Words are to prevent that cavil, 177y des God yet conc ' plain? And informs them, that though Gcd had nor given them, nor their Anceſtets, his Laws wrote in Tables of Stone, as he had given.to the Jews 3 yer they had had the Law written in theirheatrs, which they had not obeyed, though Gods manifold Mercies, his Works of Creation and Providence had teſtified unto them, thar heonly was to be feared and Worlhipped, How many Witneſſes , | hath God againſt ſinful man, when every Creature and Providenc? Wiſdom, Goodneſs, &c. and call upon us
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c Either, in order to bury him, thinking him to be dead, as well | ,,, Jews and them, 9 £1. James conflrmech the ſane \Ferwee as his Perſecutors did ; or, elſe to defend him, as much as poſſibly Prophet, 12 18. and concludeth not to lay any bur} t of the they could, from the rage of his Enemies in that popular —_ Tr hy, aan. The Letter for ne en Us ſpite was moſt againſt Paul, becauſe he ſpake moſt, and Preached un- by Paul end Barnabas. 23 29. They return, and as, to them the way of Life. d Being by the Power of God —_ rhe Epiſtles, Preach the Word of the Lord, Jo=—"— 35, paread reſtored to his ſtrengrh again. e A city near to Zycaonze, tome lay | po Þ.- being at variance, depart one from the other : __ Init. . with Mark to Cyprus, Paul and Silas zo Syria and Cijj. 21 And when they had preached the goſpelto that | 35 41. — : : Gil, city, and had f taught many, they returned again to | z Nd acertain men which came down from Judes,
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them, Matth. 28. 19. For as by Circumciſion they were made be ſaved.
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