...the Holy Ghost and to us," — these are the words of the apostolical rescript, — " it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burthen than these necessary things,r---that ye abstain 41 from meats offered to idols, and from blood,...

...us, to lay upon you no other burden than those necessary things, to abstain from eating sacrifices to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication : from which if ye wholly keep yourselves, ye will do well." xv. 24—80. The persons who came down from Jerusalem to...

...in all its parts, seeing it had the following sanction of this general conference ? " It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and. to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than those necessary things j"1 which are there enumerated ; but neither water baptism, the supper, nor...

...of the church of Jerusalem had determined, that the gentiles should only keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from foroicatinn ; yet it is plain enough from what they say, Acts xri. 20—24, that taught not, nay, probably...

...preserve them from idolatry, and the immoral practices which heathenism diil not prohibit. " They were to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood,...and from things strangled, and from fornication." Nor are we authorized to assert, that the primitive apostles were, in every respect, under the infallible...

...choicest wines in his cellars, drinks some «f the meanest quality, Potet ace tarn." Acts. xv. 29. "That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood and from things strangled." — The following sentences in Tertullian's Apolog. adv. Gent. $ 9, shew that this advice was re. gardcd...

...seemed * See Amos, ix. 11, 12. t To teach the laws of Moses, then, was topreaehMos*to the Holy Spirit and to us,* to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things ; 29 that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood ; arftJ from things strangled, and...

...fornieation ; from whieh if ve keep > ourselves ye shall do well. Vnrv >i> well. -M For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden tlmn these neeessary things; 30 So when they were dismissed they fame to Antioeh : and, when they had...

...conclusion adopted by them, and sent among their believing brethren of the Gentiles. " For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater...from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well." Acts xv. 2S, 29. But as they who are gathered into the mind of Christ, continue subject to him in all...

...to us, to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29. That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things...from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell. 30. So being dismissed they came to Antioch; and having called the multitude together, they...