 | 1848 - 1128 pages
...himself, without the slightest impeachment of his infallibility ? Further ; our Lord said to Peter, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church." Who, then, can doubt the elevation of the Bishop of Rome to a transcendent superiority above the rest... | |
 | John Charles Ollerenshaw - 1849 - 122 pages
...investing it with the highest and exclusive sanction. Just so did Peter's positive supremacy — " thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church" — wane before the rising and surpassing glory of the unINTRODUCTION. vii equalled Paul; God virtually... | |
 | Nicaea 2nd council of - 1849 - 630 pages
...have had taken into consideration the word which the Lord said to Peter the chief of the Apostles : ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church, and the GATES of HELL shall not prevail against it.' But having no part with the erection of this building,... | |
 | Alfred Hewlett - 1850 - 442 pages
...a vicar of Christ on earth which we might fairly expect ? In the first we have a disputed sense : ' Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church.' Figurative language — what is its meaning? ^ CHRYSOSTOM says, 'He did not say upon Peter; for He... | |
 | John Brown - 1850 - 620 pages
...are neither calculated nor intended to serve. The passage before us — like the famous passage, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," on which has been built a wondrous superstructure of error and superstition, the mystery of iniquity,... | |
 | Anna Hanson Dorsey - 1850 - 428 pages
...and protect her forever, must be holy and eternal. When Christ said to the prince of the apostles,' Thou art Peter and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her,' he conveyed the most perfect idea of strength... | |
 | 1851 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1851 - 1018 pages
...When our blessed Saviour was ordering his church, and instituting episcopal dignity, he said to Peter: 'Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church." Hence comes the order of bishops, and the constitution or being of the church, that the church be founded... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
