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Whether that Paule, Peter, James and the rest of the Apo∣stles in the first Counsell holden at Jerusalem, did take into thē the Heretikes which vrged Cir∣cumcision, and the obseruing of Moyses lawe vpon the godly, or the lay men which were of that secte?
THe whole scope and drift* 1.1 of this question is this, that if there chance a frée conference or disputati∣on in any counsel, wher∣in they are required to render a reason of their fayth and Re∣ligion, and so may not refuse the same, that then they may haue at the leaste some kinde of prerogatiue, to the ende that nothing may bee decréed agaynst thē, & that they may not be drawen frō their sinnes, errors, & other abuses, to a vertuous & acceptable life before god.