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 “ The Lord speaks to Peter, I say to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon that rock I will build my Church, &c. And again, after his resurrection, he says to the same Peter: Feed my sheep. Upon that one he builds his Church. And although he gives an equal power to all the Apostles, saying; As the Father sent me, I also send you ; receive ye the Holy Ghost, 8c. Yet to manifest Unity, he authoritatively ordained the origin of Unity to spring from one. What Peter was, that, indeed, were the other Apostles ; endowed with an equal consortship of dignity and power; but the beginning is from Unity, that the Church may be shewn to be one.” De Unit. Eccl. p. 194.-It is the Unity of the Church, however, that St. Cyprian, in this Treatise, labours principally to establish.

EUSEBIUS, G. C.-" The kind providence of God conducts Peter to Rome; that powerful and great Apostle, and by his deserts, the chief of all the rest. Hist. Eccles. L. 11. c. 14. p. 63.-" Peter, the disciple of Christ, preferred before all the other Apostles.” ''Demon. Evang. L. 111. p. 123. - Peter the head of the Apostles, denied his master thrice.” Com. in Psal. lxix. T. 1, p. 373. N. Collect. Montfaucon. Paris. 1706.

St. HILARY, L. C.-“ On the rock of the confession of Peter the Church was built.” De Trin. L. vi. p. 903.-—“ Peter believed first, and he is made the chief of the Apostleship.” Comment. in c. vii. Matt. p. 642.

St. BASIL, G. C.-“ Peter, from being a fisherman, was called to the Apostleship; and from the eminence of his