...through with some other sense. What person for instance can deny the plain Scriptural declaration — " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church ; the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." This of course settles the point ; and it would...

...and blood hath 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. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom...

...history of Peter, and of the planting of the Church. We refer now more particularly to the sentence, " thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Nothing like this is known to have been said by...

...doubt not to many another, petrifactions, as it were, of the words of the Church's mighty HEAD : — " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build My Church, AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT." " Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word...

...dying, left no visible chief to govern his followers ; and the language which is attributed to him, ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church,' is but a sacerdotal trick ; for it is proved that St. Peter, during his life, had less authority than...

...; wherefore they say that they ought not to be compelled to contribute. Again, as the truth says, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," he reserved the proprietorship to himself, intrusting to Peter the care, as appears from the words...

...; wherefore they say that they ought not to be compelled to contribute. Again, as the truth says, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," he reserved the proprietorship to himself, intrusting to Peter the care, as appears from the words...

...could hardly be conceived. Once more : even those who have been persuaded to see in our Lord's words, ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church,' some appointment of that apostle to a principal rank in the Church, must still, if they be honest and...

...Rock of faith, as he is the foundation, even as the Lord himself says to the chief of the Apostles, ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church,' on the confession, that is, * Hujus itaque a Deo Apostolis traditse fidei neque subtractionem, neque...

...which the Romans rested the power of the pope, and said, ' that the text on which Dr. Eck relied — Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church — did not refer to St. Peter, still less to any of his successors, but to the Lord Jesus Christ,...