Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCIllFl URE AND THE FATHERS. 39
he was so anxious to give them an accurate
knowledge of scripture,
he might have also told
them, that the phrase may be translated to get
acquainted with Peter. But granting that Paul
came to inquire of Peter, and even, if the R.
please, to be Instructed in the gospel, that is
^till at a considerable distance from owning his
supremacy.
In the Council of Jerusalem, mentioned in
the fifteenth chapter of the Acts,
the R. thinks
he has found another strong proof of the supremacy
of Peter.
This Council was assembled
to decide, whether the Gentile converts should
be circumcised, and keep the law of Moses.
" The controversy," says he, " was brought
" before the apostles and priests at Jerusalem,
" and there, with the concurrence of the chief
" pastor Peter, it vi'as finally settled *." This
he considers as a plain statement of facts ; and
he charges Mr Stanser with misrepresentation
in saying, that the controversy was discussed by
the apostles and elders, and by them decided :
''
If he had said," says the R., ^' that Peter's
" decision had been adopted by the Council,
" he would have told us what is there rela-
« tedV
A wise man has judiciously observed, that
much study is a weariness to the flesh. The
reader must not therefore be surprised, though
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* P. 71. f
P. 166.