A17384:546
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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Sol. The Church is not builded upon Peter, but upon the rock, which was the confession of Peter, and so the doctrine of Christ: for the text doth not say super hunc Petrū, but super hanc Petrā.
Sol. The Church is not builded vpon Peter, but vpon the rock, which was the confession of Peter, and so the doctrine of Christ: for the text doth not say super hunc Petrū, but super hanc Petrā.
Use. The use may be first, for confutation of the Papists, about their blasphemous doctrine, in ascribing this glory of being the foundation of the Church, unto Peter, and so to the pope: which they do most absurdly: for that place, Math. 16. ⟨p. 122⟩18. is not understood of Peters person, but of his confession. And besides, if it had been true of Peter, by what word of Scripture shall it be proved, that it is true of the Pope, who is not once named in Scripture, except he be described as Antichrist? Besides, if the Church be built upon Peter, or the Pope, then it will follow, we must believe in Peter and the Pope, else we cannot be founded on them: which is extremely blasphemous: but that it may be put out of all doubt, let us hear the testimony of Peter himself, who best knew his own right; and you see in this text, Peter says. Christ is the living stone, and not he.