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Men and brethren,
ye know how
that a good while ago God made choice among us, that
the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word
of the gospel, and believe.
And God, which knoweth the hearts,
bare them witness,
giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
and put no difference between us and them, purifying
their hearts by faith.
Now therefore why
tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor
we were able to bear?
But we believe that through
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
we shall be saved, even as they.
Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Simeon hath declared
how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words
of the prophets; as it is written,
After this I will
return, and will build again the tabernacle of
David, which is fallen down;
and I will build
again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
that the residue of men might seek after the Lord,
and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Known unto God are all his
works from the beginning of the world.
Wherefore my sentence
is, that we trouble not them, which from among the
Gentiles are turned to God: but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols,
and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being
read in the synagogues every sabbath day.