The fifth place is Acts 15:28⁠–⁠29, “It hath seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden, than these necessary things, that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.” Here he notes the word “laying of burdens” for the legislative power. But who is there, that reading this text, can say this style of the apostles may not as properly be used in giving counsel as in making laws? The style of a law is, “we command”: but, “we think good,” is the ordinary style of them that but give advice; and they lay a burden that give advice, though it be conditional, that is, if they to whom they give it, will attain their ends; and such is the burden of abstaining from things strangled, and from blood; not absolute, but in case they will not err. I have shown before (chapter XXV