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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56699	A sermon preached upon St. Peter's day printed at the desire of some that heard it, with some enlargements / by a divine of the Church of England.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1687 (1687)	Wing P845; ESTC R4849	40,780	79

neither in Paul 's nor in Peter 's but in the name of Christ that Peter might be built upon the Rock not the Rock upon Peter The like we meet withal in another place † Tract CXXIV in evang Johannis The Church is founded upon the Rock whence Peter received his Name For the Rock is not denominated from Peter but Peter from the Rock * Non enim à Petro Petra sed Petrus à Petra directly contrary to Card. Baronius who confidently says non Petrus à Petra sed ipse Petra not Peter from that Rock but he is the Rock Ad An. 31. n. 24. as Christ hath not his name from Christian but a Christian from Christ for therefore the Lord said Vpon this Rock I will build my Church because Peter had said Thou art Christ the Son of the living God. Vpon this Rock therefore saith he which thou hast confessed will I build my Church FOR THE ROCK WAS CHRIST upon which foundation even Peter himself is built For other foundation can no Man lay than that is laid which is Christ Jesus I will not trouble you with any more Authorities such as that of Venerable Bede † In Cap. XXI Johan who hath transcribed these last words of S. Austin into his own Book because I have a fourth exposition to add which will help to clear the rest especially the first IV. There are those who having what I have now said in their mind expound these words of all the Apostles and their Successors that is of all Christian Bishops who laid this foundation stone and continued to build upon it after it was laid Thus S. Cyprian * Ad Lapsos Epist XXXIII Edit Oxon. most expresly Our Lord whose precepts we ought to reverence and observe ordering the honour of the Bishop and the rule of his Church saith in the Gospel unto Peter I say unto thee thou art Peter and upon this Rock c. From hence through the course of times and successions runs down the Ordination of Bishops and the rule of the Church THAT THE CHVRCH MAY BE CONSTITVTED VPON BISHOPS and every affair of the Church be governed by those Overseers The very same is affirmed by S. Austin who in several places looks upon the whole order of Bishops as comprehended in S. Peter particularly in an Epistle to three † Epist CLXV vide Launoii Epist Par. V. ad Carolum Magisirum p. 47. c. ad Guliel●● Voellum p. 12. c. great persons where he saith Christ spake these words to him sustaining the figure of the whole Church It will not be fit to mention all the rest of the antient Writers who thus extend the sense of this place I shall only note that Paschasius Radbertus the founder of Transubstantiation was of this mind For thus he writes * L. IV. in Matt. v. 26. p. 18. The Church of God is not built upon Peter alone but upon all the Apostles and the Successors of the Apostles Unto these four Expositions I might add a fifth there being those who have understood every Christian Man and Woman by this Rock they being the stones and materials as I may call them of which the Church consists But I will pass this by though it have more great names to support it besides Origen because I have said enough already to expose the foul dealing and unworthy reasonings and conclusions of greatest Doctors of the Church of Rome which I shall represent in these following Considerations PART III. Reflections upon what hath been said concerning these Interpretations I. IF these things be certainly true as I assure you they are and themselves cannot deny that there are these several interpretations of this Scripture among the ancient Doctors then there can be no excuse made for their partiality who receive and adhere only to one of these interpretations as the Catholick Exposition and lay aside all the rest even those which are far more Catholick Thus doth Bellarmine * L. 1. de Pontif. Rom. C. X. who finding fault with Erasmus for contradicting their Exposition of the Church being founded upon Peter saith that all the Fathers teach it And thus doth Cardinal Baronius † Ad An. 33. n. XXVII to name no more who is not ashamed to say that it is an interpretation received and approved by the consent of the whole Catholick Church What truth can you expect from such Men or who can think it safe to give up himself to the conduct of such Guides who thus notoriously falsifie in a matter so evident that for one antient Father or Ecclesiastical Writer that by the Rock understands Peter himself there are two nay very near three that interpret it of the Faith which S. Peter confessed For to all those which a very learned and ingenuous Doctor of the Roman Church hath collected which are XLIV in number * V. Jo. Launoii Epist P. V. ad Guil. Voellum p. 18. c. others may be added besides Fortunatus and Epiphanius before mentioned For example Euagrius seems to have had this in his thoughts who speaking of Anastasius Bishop of Antioch where S. Peter sat before he was at Rome to whom such fierce assaults were given as if they thought in his overthrow to subvert the Church it self saith he manfully withstood them all † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. IV. C. 40. for he stood firm upon the impregnable Rock of Faith. If the sense of the Antients be to be reverenced at all why not one sense as well as another And why not that most of all which hath the most to assert it With what conscience do they fix upon one and throw away nay detest all the other which are of more credit Is it not highly unjust to make Peter this Rock here spoken of rather than Christ our Lord when there are so many reasons as well as great Authority for the last more than for the other And yet they not only do this but most immodestly say all the Fathers are of their mind And which is worse they make this an Article of the Faith That the Church is founded upon S. Peter nay the prime Article of all unto which it is evident the Church hath never agreed but manifestly contradicted it Upon this Bellarmine grounds the Infallibility of the Bishop of Rome because Peter is the Rock and the Foundation of the Church as the Supreme Governor of it and therefore every Successor of his is in like manner the Rock and Foundation of the Church And thus he saith all the Fathers have expounded it * L. IV. de Pontif. Rom. C. III. And hence proceeds so far as to say this is the summ of Christian affairs † Praefat. in illos Libros the whole frame of the visible Church depending so much upon the Roman Bishop that if he be taken away the Church falleth Upon this Foundation also they have raised to him such an Authority they make him by Christs