5. And even after the Holy Ghost was more largely given, after _life and immortality_ were _brought to light by the gospel_, we want not instances of the same melancholy kind, which were also doubtless written for our instruction. Thus he who (probably from his [39]_selling_ all that he had, and _bringing the price_ for the relief of his poor brethren) was _by the apostles_ themselves _sirnamed_ Barnabas, that is, _the son of consolation_; who was so honoured at _Antioch_, as to be selected with _Saul_ out of all _the disciples_, to carry their [40]_relief unto the brethren in_ Judea: this _Barnabas_, who at his return from _Judea_, was by the peculiar direction of the Holy Ghost, solemnly [41]_separated from the_ other _prophets and teachers, for the work whereunto God had called him_, even to accompany the great apostle among the Gentiles, and to be his fellow-labourer in every place; nevertheless was afterward so [42]_sharp_ in his _contention_ with St. _Paul_ (because he _thought it not good to take with them_ John, in his _visiting the brethren_, a second time, _who had departed from them from_ Pamphylia, _and went not with them to the work_) that he himself also departed from the work; that he _took_ John, _and sailed unto_ Cyprus; forsaking him to whom he had been in so immediate a manner joined by the Holy Ghost. 6. An instance more astonishing than both these is given by St. _Paul_ in his epistle to the _Galatians_. _When_ Peter, the zealous, the first of the apostles; one of the three most highly favoured by his Lord; _was come to_ Antioch, _I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from_ James, _he did eat with the Gentiles_, the Heathens converted to the Christian faith, as having been peculiarly taught of God, that [43]he _should not call any man common or unclean_. But [44]_when they were come, he separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that_ Barnabas _also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto_ Peter _before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles_, not regarding the ceremonial law of _Moses, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews_? Here is also plain, undeniable sin, committed by one who was undoubtedly _born of God_. But how can this be reconciled with the assertion of St. _John_, if taken in the obvious literal meaning, that _whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin_? 7. I answer, what has been long observed is this: so long as _he that is born of God keepeth himself_ (which he is able to do by the grace of God) _the wicked one toucheth him not_. But if he keepeth not himself, if he abideth not in the faith, he may commit sin even as another man.