z t z Chap.z. AComrnentarie triton b Maeeh..tf. buk.oa8. s.Cor.ro 4. for therefrainingofthe finne of Peter. Thefir! t is fet downe in the i 6. wife, if thou teeing a Iew, c.c. Here the meaningof Come words are to beopened. To Iadaáfe, or to lurea1 a ley, is to obferue ( and that necefI'arily,) a difference of ntteates, and times, according to the ceremonial!lawofMofes. To Gents.- s line, or to lisieat a Gentile is to viemeats,and drinks, and times, freely without difference. Peter is Paid , to compell.the gentiles to Iteclaife , not by teaching of anydottrine , (for theApoflles ueuererred,in teaching and deliueringany thing to the church ofGod : this is a principle: ) therefore he conflrained themby 16 the authoritie of his example : whereby he ended them to thinkc that the obfcruationof the Ceremoniall lawwas ncccf- farie. The firfl reafon then isframed thus : Ifthoubeeinga Icw, vfeft to hue as the Gentiles , thoumail} not by thyexample' 15 competi the Gentilesto Iudaize in the neccffaric obfcruation' ofceremonies : but thoubeeinga Iew,vfefl to hueas theGen- tiles : therefore thoumad not compel! the Gentiles to line as Iewes. Here firtt,let vsobferue the force ofmill example : it corn- ,20 polls men to be cuill. Therefore let all fuperiours,Magifirates, Miniilers , and all gouernours of families, Tooke to their ex- amples. For ifthey be cuill, they confirainc others alfo tobe e- oill. Here againe, we fee what wonderful( fubieEEion theanti- 25 ent belecuers yeelded to the minifterieof theword. For if the anions oftheApoftles compelledmen to do thisor that,what thendid their doetrines,andheauenly exhortations do? When Iohn the Baptiftpreached , the fiugdome ofbeano:Jeeredvis- lence,and the violent tooke it tothemfelues. When the difciplcs 3o preached in Iewrie , theyjawSatanfalling dowsefrom, heatuen lice lightning. TheweaponsofPaul werefpirituall, to calf downe holds, and to bring emery thought infiubietlion to God. Here, the fault of our time is to be confidered. We haue the forme of godlincs, inhearing and in outward profeflion , but we want 35 the power of it. For we doe not inheart yecld fubictlion by1 fufferingour fclues to be vrgcd , and compelled to obedíencei by theauthoritie ofthe minifterie. Thirdly, herewe feewherein floodPeters finne: namcly,rn that heconlraincdmen to aaccefiarie obfcruationof the Ce- remo-
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