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 J7, 1439, wi  n; uive to  :" The  e hh e my er all the ea; that he is the 8uccer of St. Peter, e pce e ad, and the  of e church, e faer  macher of  Chfi; d tt Je8 Cht  h in the  d St. Per, e wer W fd, e, and govern the Cathohc Chch  it  explned in the acts of mcumedcal cocs and in e hot  co-"t ]nfh h eir ea t. A indeed if their church  infalhM6 we ought aH w w  i decio. But on e most careful extn of Scgure,  well  every oer edence that can i st Scdre; t it is a novelty in the chumh; it is ufficient to swer the pus for wch it is employed; it is attend with f re and aer difficfies an thee it presses to remedy; and it is folwed by a eat number oi bad consuences. II. Let emine the pfs on wch e manists fod eir cls  iibfii. They not oy quota Scripture for the puse of proving the infd- ]ibfiity of their church, but they present us with several armenm drown from rn, wch, they say, eatabash this as a pege be- lng  e Church of Rome. 1. We shl first te a survey of ose xts of Scripte wch e mmnly quoted  eslish the inf]ibity of e Church of Rome. We may promise on ts subject, at ff iallibfiity be a doctrine S, d  ant a docte  e Romanisls say it is, then ,:y it mu be clly mveal in Scpte,  well  the wh it    found. We asse, however, that it is not a dtdne taught by Sce, d at the texts bwug to prove it do not con- lr it; or, if they do, they concern none but the ades themselves. (1.) To prove the church's inbiW, the following wos of our Saur m Pemr e g: "I say unto thee, ou a Peter, d un his k will I bd my church, and the tes of hell sl not pr v st it," Ma. xvi, 18. The greatest advocates and wte of the Church of Ro acknowledge tt this is  pdnci text for in- lity. It is not con,rotted between them and us wheer Chest is e eat fodation of s church, for in ts 1 are aeod; but cversy es  , whether e rm rock refers m Per or Chc The construction of the orin plnly disfinishes tween Per and the k. If it were written rrz r  Hr, up tk Pet, the ght be some od o think Per d the word k the same. But it is not so: the wos of Cht e, E rz H, wch ou t co,eased, &c.; t berg in the ce gender, and a  e fee. The Latin Vule spe e sne l- age: T,z  Pets, et su  tr, "Thou a Peter, and this k,  the one g me and e oer feline. at wo Peter siifies a stone, we have our Saos testimony: "Tu st  cl Ceph, which is by inre a STOSS," John i, 42. Cht, or e dt of Ct, seem ply en   &e k mended in e xt. This view is sup by seve xm Scm. Per says, "ld, I lay in Zion a cef comer o I.--9
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