...its Author was an impostor, or deceiver, for he had declared most solemnly that it should not fail. " Thou art Peter, and on this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The author, it seems to us, in endeavoring to...

...of faith, inasmuch as he is the foundation. As the Lord himself said to the chief of the apostles, ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, on /he confession, that is to say, of Chris/, because Peter had said, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son...

...flesh and blood has not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. These things, the Bishop said, it is plain were...

...Church is built. This b Rom. ix. 4. 0 Ilcb. xii. 22. is the import of what our Saviour said to Petor ; " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church :" he did not mean, that he would build it on the person of Peter, but on the testimony of Peter just...

...usual passages of Holy Scripture are quoted to prove the existence of this Primacy. We read much of " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church ;" but we find no interpretation of the rebuke, "Get thee behind me, Satau." The testimony of the Acts...

...them, " One is your Master, even Christ, and ALL YE are brethren. Nor does the celebrated passage, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," critically examined, give the least semblance to his official supremacy. For the church was not built...

...character, and has since attained a wonderful renown. Aside from that saying of the Savior to him, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church," he was one of those apostles and prophets on which, as a foundation, the Church is built, Jesus Christ...

...read in letters, six feet long, the inscription in mosaic of Matthew xvi: 18 — " Tu es Petrus," &c., (Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church), while upon its ceiling was a mosaic, in execution perfect, as it is blasphemous in design, of Jehovah,...

...character, and has since attained a wonderful renown. Aside from that saying of the Savior to him, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church," he was one of those apostles and prophets on which, as a foundation, the Church is built, Jesus Christ...

...infernal love of self and the world has deduced from the Lord's words to Peter : ' I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom...