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For as moche as we have hearde yt certayne which departed fro vs have troubled you with wordes and combred youre myndes sayinge: Ye must be circumcised and kepe the lawe to whom we gave no soche comaundemet.

men that have ieoperded their lyves for the name of oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

For it semed good to the holy gost and to vs to put no grevous thinge to you more then these necessary thinges:

The same Paul wolde yt he shuld goo forth with him and toke and circumcised him because of the Iewes which were in those quarters: for they knewe all that his father was a Greke.

As they went thorow ye cities they delyvered the the decrees for to kepe ordeyned of the Apostles and elders which were at Ierusalem.

After he had sene ye vision immediatly we prepared to goo into Macedonia certified yt the lorde had called vs for to preache the gospell vnto them.

and preache ordinaunces which are not laufull for vs to receave nether to observe seinge we are Romayns.

But Paul cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: Do thy selfe no harme for we are all heare.

Then he called for a lyght and sprange in and came tremblynge and fell doune before Paul and Sylas

Then sayde Paul vnto them: they have beaten vs openly vncomdempned for all yt we are Romayns and have cast vs into preson: and now wolde they sende vs awaye prevely? Naye not so but let them come the selves and set vs out.

And they that gyded Paul brought him vnto Attens and receaved a comaundment vnto Sylas and Timotheus for to come to him at once and came their waye.

Whyll Paul wayted for them at Attens his sprete was moved in him to se the cite geven to worshippinge of ymages.

For thou bringest straunge tydynges to oure eares. We wolde knowe therfore what these thinges meane.

For all the Attenians and straungers which were there gave the selves to nothinge els but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto ye vnknowen god. Whom ye then ignoratly worship him shewe I vnto you.

and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion

For in him we lyve move and have oure beynge as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion.

For as moche then as we are the generacion of God we ought not to thynke that the godhed is lyke vnto golde silver or stone graven by crafte and ymaginacion of man.

for I am with the and no man shall invade the that shall hurte the. For I have moche people in this cite.

but yf it be a question of wordes or of names or of youre lawe loke ye to it youre selves. For I wilbe no iudge in soche maters