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heaven_n	apostle_n	church_n	key_n	2,057	5	9.6217	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61458	The church of Rome not sufficiently defended from her apostacy, heresie, and schisme as appears by an answer to certain quæries, printed in a book entituled Fiat Lux, and sent transcribed (as 'tis suppos'd) from thence by a Romanist to a priest of the Church of England. Whereunto are annexed the Romanist's reply to the Protestant's Answer, and the Protestant's rejoynder to that reply. By P.S. D.D.	Samways, Peter, 1615-1693.	1663 (1663)	Wing S545B; ESTC R222361	39,609	116

Apostle we recount not to staine the glory of his memory but only to shew that he was not priviledged to become an unshaken Rock such as on whom the Church might be secured Antiquity did not by Christs expression understand the Person of Peter only to be meant when he said Upon this Rock I will build my Church but some first by the name of Roek understood every beleever as Origen Greg. Nyssen St. Ambrose and Aquinas himselfe following Origen as the learned (e) Exercitat 15 ad Annal. Baron P. 39. Casaubon observeth Secondly Others conceive that by Rock our Lord understood the faith of St. Peter so (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys upon this Rock id est the faith of this confession so (g) Super hanc confessionis Petram Ecclesiae aedificatio est mox haec sides Ecclesiae fundamentum est Hilary lib. 6. de Trinit The building of the Church is upon this Rock of his confession and afterward this faith is the foundation of the Church and St. August most clearly in his 10. Tract●t on the first Epistle of St. * Quid est super bane Pewam aedificabo ecclesiam meam super hanc fidem super id quod dictum est Tu es Christus filius Dei vivi super hanc Pettam inquit sundabo Ecclesiam meam John What is on this Rock I will build my Church but upon his faith upon that which hath been spoaken Thou art Christ the Sonn of the living God upon this Rock saith he I will build my Church Thirdly Some by Rock understood Peter but with no Prerogative to his person above the rest of the Apostles except of his age in which respect St. Hierome * Cur non Johannes electus est virgo aetati delatū est qua Petrus senior erat Hieron adv Iovin lib 1. thinks him to be made the Prolocutor and prompenesse of answering Christs demands We deny not that the Fathers ascribe unto Peter this pious heat especially observable in him upon severall occasions more then in the rest of the disciples Peter (h) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tom. 5. p. 199. edit savil saith St. Chrysost fervid in all things or upon all occasions and full of freedome in speaking or rather of charit y then free dome of speech whilest others hold their peace cometh to the Master and saith c. Vpon this accompt the Ancients give unto Peter a dignity peculiar amongst the rest of the Apostles not a princely power over them (i) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence Eusebius lib. 2. c. 14. calls him for his excellency the Prolocutor of all the rest Thus much and no more did the Fathers grant unto Peter when the Latins call him principem and the Greek's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince and leader of the Apostles St. Hierom's testimony is evident for this when he prayseth St. John so highly making him the beloved disciple because he was a virgin and Superior to St. Peter because whereas Peter was an Apostle and John an Apostle the one a married man the other a virgin Peter was only an Apostle John an Apostle an Evangelist and a Prophet 'T is true he objected before the preeminence of St. Peter above the rest but answereth the objection by granting no more to St. Peter then we acknowledge to be given him by Antiquity which was not a Soveraign Monarchicall Authority over them but a praesidency among them Hear St. Hierom's words lib. 1. adv Jovin If (k) Si virgo non fuit Iohannes cur caeteris Apostolis plus amatus sit dicis super Petrum fundatur ecclesia licet id ipfū in alio loco super emnes Apostolos fiat cuncti claves regni coelorum accipiant ex acquo super cos Ecclesiae fortitudo solidetur tamen proptere à inter duodecem unus eligitur ut capite constituto schismatis tollatur occasio Hieron adv Iovin lib. 1. St. John were not a virgin why was he more beloved then the rest but you say that the Church was founded on Peter though that be elsewhere laid on all the Apostles and all of them receive the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven and though the strength of the Church be equally grounded on them all yet not withstanding one is chosen among the Twelve that an Head being appointed the occasion of schisme might be removed Where St. Hierome by the name of Head meant not to ascribe a Soveraigne power to Peter over all the rest for all St. Peters power is comprised in the Keyes and in the building of the Church upon him but you see that all the Apostles in St. Hieroms judgement receive the Key 's and the Church is built upon them all equally wherefore in Hieroms opinion though Peter had a pre-eminency among the Apostles he had not a Soveraignty above them To conclude fourthly and lastly Some of the Fathers by Rock understood Christ himselfe So (l) Tu es Petrus super hane Petram quam confessus es super hanc Petram quā cognovistidicens Tu es filius Dei vivi aedificabo Ecclesiā meam 1. super meipsū filiū Dei vivi aedificabo Ecclesiam meā St. Augustine in his thirteenth Sermon on the words of our Lord. Thou art Peter and upon this Rock which thou hast confessed upon this Rock which thou understoodest when thou saidest Thou art Christ the Son of the living God will I build my Church id est upon my selfe the Son of the living God will I build my Church upon me will I build thee not me upon thee And this Sense 't is probable that Christ made evident to the Apostles by pointing demonstratively to himselfe when he pronounc'd the pronoune This as he may be supposed to have done when he said * Iohn 2.19 Dissolve this Temple Neither do these four severall Interpretations differ in the substance of the sense but only in the manner of expression for as if a devout man should say God cured me or the Physitian cured me or Rhubarb cured me he would by these severall expressions speak after the accustomed manner of speech retaining still one meaning that he was cured by God as the first efficient by the Physitian as the second and subordinate by the Rhubarb as by the instrument so the Fathers as the learned Exercitator on Baronius noteth when they say sometimes that the Church is built upon Christ sometimes on Peter sometimes on every believer and upon the faith or consession of faith made by Peter agree very well in the substance of the same sense though they use severall ways of declaring it Which is doubtlesse the reason why one and the same Augustine other whiles expoundeth Christ words after one of the forementioned senses and otherwhiles after another for in his Retractat lib. 1. c. 21. he saith that he had sometimes by Rock understood Peter but afterwards most frequently Christ whom Peter confessed for Christ is the