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CHAP. IV. Relating Paul's second Journey or Peragration with Barnabas and others,* 1.1 from Antioch to that famous Council at Jerusalem, which we call, Iter Hierosolymitanum.* 1.2
SECT. 1.
PAul and Barnabas stayed now with the Disciples at Antioch a great while. After which, as it seems, Paul propagated the Gospel as far as Illyricum, (a Country lying on the Adria∣tick Sea, bordering on Macedonia, now call'd Slavonia) prea∣ching such things to them, concerning Christ, as they never heard before; as he himself testifies, Rom. 15.19, 20, 21. Through mighty signs by the power of the spirit of God, so that from Jeru∣salem, and round about Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gos∣pel of Christ: yea so have I striven to preach, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another mans foundation. But as it is written [Isa. 52.15.] To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and they that have not heard, shall understand.
During this time, 'tis probable, he suffered some of those things, which in his second Epistle to the Corinthians, ch. 11. v. 24, 25. he makes mention of, to wit, that he had five times received forty stripes save one from the Jews [See Deut. 25.3.] and thrice been beaten with wands, probably, by the Lictors or Roman officers at the command of the Gentiles; and had thrice suffered ship∣wrack, in one of which it seems, he was a day and a night floa∣ting in the Sea, and yet by the wonderful power and provi∣dence of God, was preserved and delivered out of that extream danger.
SECT. II.
ABout this time, it seems, certain Jews of the Sect of the Pharisees, who had embraced the Gospel, came down from Judea to Antioch, and taught, that the Gentiles, conver∣ted to Christianity, ought to be circumcised, and keep the Law of Moses, if they would be saved; disturbing and disquieting the Consciences of many of the Brethren in Syria and Cilicia,