7. Mark now, in this letter of Paul, another circumstance: and judge whether it tends not to cast discredit on what is said of Peter in the Acts. In the Acts account we have seen Peter in the great council, supporting, in a sort of speech, the liberty side--of the question,--Jesus against Moses,--supporting it in the great council, in which, in that same account, Paul, though present, is, as to that point, represented as silent: in that same account, shall we see Peter, five years before this time, addressing himself to the Gentiles,--using this same liberty,--and, when called to account for doing so, employing _his_ pair of visions, his and Cornelius's, Acts 10:30-41, in and for his defence: we shall see him in this new part of his career,--in this part, for which he was by both education and habits of life so ill qualified,--we shall see him so much in earliest in this part of his labors, as to have expended miracles,--a supernatural cure, and even a raising from the dead,--for his support in it. Had any such facts really happened--facts in their nature so notorious,--would Paul, in this letter of his to the Galatians, have spoken of Peter, as if he had never made, or attempted to make, any progress in the conversion of the Gentiles? Speaking of the sticklers for Moses, as well as of Peter,--would he have said "When they saw that the Gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the Gospel of the circumcision was to Peter?" Gal. 2:7, "For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the Apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles?" That, in some way or other, Peter had tried his hand upon some persons who were Gentiles--in this there is nothing but what may well enough be believed: provided it be also believed--that, in the experiment so made by him, he had little or no success:--for, that after the expenditure of two such miracles of so public a nature, besides a pair of visions,--he had after all made so poor a hand of it, as to be content to give up to Paul the whole of his prospects from that quarter,--does it seem credible? 8. As to the partition-treaty itself,--whatsoever were the incidents that had brought it about, nothing could be more natural--nothing more probable--nothing more beneficial to the common cause--to the religion of Jesus, meaning always so far as the religion taught by Paul was comfortable to it. Each retained to himself the only part of the field, for the cultivation of which he was qualified: each gave up no other part of the field, than that, for the cultivation of which he was _not_ qualified. 9. Gal. 2:12. "For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 10. "But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter.