History of the great General Councils--Originates at that of Jerusalem--Date and Subject-matter--The Controversy about Circumcision--Social Questions springing from it-- St. Paul's Position--His Apparent Inconsistencies-- Lessons of Apostolic Council--Early Church Scene of Controversies--No Infallible Guide--Composition of Council--Lay Element in Church Synods--Hooker and the Church of England--Witness of Prayer Book--Experience of Irish Church--Proceedings of the Council--Triumph of Gentile Freedom 219-244 CHAPTER XI. APOSTOLIC QUARRELS AND THE SECOND TOUR. ACTS xv. 36, 39; xvi. 6, 8, 9. Introduction of Christianity to Greece--St. Peter and his Asserted Roman Episcopate of Twenty-five Years--Quarrel between St. Paul and St. Barnabas--Between St. Paul and St. Peter--Patristic Explanations--St. Augustine and St. Jerome--St. Paul's Opposition to Nepotism--Barnabas and Mark--Blessings of Sternness--The Wrath of Man praises God--Outline of St. Paul's Second Tour--Ramsay's Historical Geography of Asia Minor--Timothy's Ordination--The Gospel among the Celts--Jeremy Taylor and the _Via Intelligentiæ_--The Vision at Troas 245-270 CHAPTER XII. ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. ACTS xvi. 29, 31; xvii. 1, 2, 10. Ancient Roads and Rome--The Gospel at Philippi--History of that Town--Constitution of Roman Colonies--Lydia and Jewish Oratory--Francis de Sales and Small Congregations--Politics and Christianity--The Apostle before the Duumviri--The Jailer and the Earthquake-- "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and Thou shalt be Saved"--The Philippian Church and Persecution--St. Paul at Thessalonica and Berœa--The Politarchs 271-300 CHAPTER XIII. ST. PAUL IN GREECE. ACTS xvii. 16-18; xviii. 1. St. Paul and St. Athanasius, a Parallel--Escape to Athens down the Thermaic Gulf--Visit of Pausanias to that City--Ideal Character of Athenian Paganism-- Areopagus and St. Paul--The Unknown God--The Greek Poets--Jesus and the Resurrection--The Primitive Athenian Church and its Theology--Aristides and his _Apology_--Dionysius the Areopagite and his reputed Philosophy--Origin of Corinthian Church--The Saintly Tentmakers--The Firstfruits of Achaia--Gallio and the Jews--Philosophy and Christ 301-330 CHAPTER XIV. THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AND ITS FOUNDATION. ACTS xviii. 19-21, 24-26; xix. 1.