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Chap. I.
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F-;.<0.15.) And agreed c that it [ould be their ſpecial work to F7- Ti | 0; 7 Ty - als mn 50 and preach to the cenriles, as they, (viz. Fimes, and Fol, and
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* Ats 24. 7. an A. Rom. 15.
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x Cor. 16. char22; they only defired us that we would be careful whereivever we went to make coll-ion for the poor Chriſtians in Fud24, who either by ſelling all they had to maintain the Goſpel in its firſt z Plantation, or by the ſharp perſecution which had waſted them, or bv rea/on of the Famine, were very low : nor was this any new thinz 4 1 had before done it, and was very forward to do 1t again,
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had they ſaid nothing to us about Its
11 But whea Peter was come to Antioch, I withitood him to the face, becauſe he was to be
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e Of his mvtion of Peter's to Antioch, the Scripture ſaying no- thing of it, hath left Interpreters at 119erty to 2u2iS variouily as tO ime; (ome judging ir was before, ſome after the Council held at 7712r:1ſ 212m, of which we read As 15.) Tholz ſeem to judge beſt, who think ir was aftzr; for it was at Antioch, while P.rn.bas was with Paul; now Pt; and B:irnabis Came from Flierujalem to Antioch, to bring thither the Decrees of that Council; and at Antioch, Bar- nub parted from Pl; after which we never read of them as be- While Pi and Barnaby were together at Antioch,
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Perer Cam? thither 3 where Pal faith, he was lo far from taking Inſtructions from him, that he wirkſtood him to his face, Not by any as of viotenc? {tho the word often exprefſcth ſuch a&ts;) but by words reproving, and blaming him; for (faith h2) he deſerved | Tho! the word fgnifies he was condemned, (waich makes ſom> ro interpret it, as it Peter had met with ſome rzprehention for his fact before Paul blamed him) yet there 1s no ground fer ir; for tho' the Greek Participle be in the Preterp-1jct Terſ-, v=r it is an £7-braiſrn, and put for a Noun Verb, which fn { :tin i5 ſometimes expreſſed bj” the Fururez according to which we tranſlat2 ir, ſes 1 Cor. 1. 18. 2 Cor. 2.15. 2 Pet. 2. 4. 10 our TIaterpreters have truly tranſlated ir according to the ſenſe of the
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12 For before that certain came from James 7, he did eat with the Gentiles g - but, when they were come, he withdrew þ, and ſeparated himſelf ;, fearing
them which were of the circumcition k.
f It ſhould ſeem that Peter had been at Antioch ſome time; while he was there, there came down certain Jews from Fames, who was efore they came g Petzr had Communion with thoſe Chriſtians at Antioch, which were by birth Gentiles, and at Meals eat as they eat, making no difference of Meats, as the Fews þ But as ſoon as theſe Zealots for the Jewiſh Rites (tho* Chriſtians) were come, Peter withdrew from the Communion of the Gentil? Chriſtians, and 7 was th- Head of a ſeparate Party, & and all through fear of the Fews ; left they ſhould at their return to Z#ieryſalem make ſome report of him to his diſadvantage, and expoſe him to the anger of the
at Z#i-ruſalem
did in obedience to the Ceremonial Law.
Fews.
hin 2, infomuch, that Barnabas alſo was carried away with their diſſimulation z.
! The fatt was the worſe, becauſe thoſe Chriſtians which were of the Church of Antioch, having been Native Jews, m followed ” Nay, Bars 7.35 my Fellow-labourer, who was joined with me in bringing the Decrees of the Council in the caſe, was carried away with their Diſfimulation. So dangerous and exemplary are the warpings and
his Example, and made a ſeparate Party with him.
miſcarriages of thoſe that are eminent Teachers. 14 But when I faw that they walked not uprightly,
according to the truth of the goſpel o, I ſaid unto
* AQts 10. Peter before them all p, * If thou being a Jew liveſt 23, after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews q, why compelleſt thou the Gentiles to live as
do the Jews r ?
0 Upriphtly here is Oppoſed to halting. Peter halted betwixt two Opinions (as El:zjah lometime told the Jſrazlirzs) when he was with the Gentiles alone, he did as they did, uling the liberty of the Goſpel; but when the Jews came from Hieruſulem, he left the Gentile Church, and joined with the Jews; this was not according to that plainneſs and ſincerity which the Goſpel required ; he did not {according to the precept he held, Heb. 12. 13.) Make ſtrait paths to kis feer, le that which is I:me be turned out of th? way. Paul not hearing this from the report of others, but being an Eye- witneſs to it, doth not defer the reproof, left the ſcandal ſhould grow: Nor p doth he reprove him privately, becauſe the offence was publick, and ſuch a Flafter would not have fitted the Sore ; but he ſpzaketh unto Petey before them all, rebuking him openly, be- cauſe he iinned openly; and by this action had not offended a pri- vate Perſon, but the Church in the place where he was; who were all Eye-witneſfes of his halting and prevarication, 1 Tim. 5. 20. g if tou, who art a Jew, not by Religion only, but by Birth and Education, haſt formerly 1ivzd, eat and drank, and had commu- nion with the Gentiles in the omiſſion of the obſervance of Circum- citon, and other Jewiſh Rites, generally obſerved by thoſe of their SYNAgoguecs z (as Peter had done hefore the Jews came from Hieru- falem to Antioch.) r Why duſt thou by thy Example compel the Members of a Gentile Church to obſerve the Jewiſh Rites z for
it their ſpecial work to preach the Goipel to the
10 OuMly they worrld that we ſhould remember the poor 4, * the ſame which 1 alſo was forward to