He had not that underteaching; but the heaHoly Ghost, gave this ning, and who all creatures, through his own Son, that is, his Wisdom, created; and to them all gave life, through the Holy Ghost. In these three Persons is one divinity, and one nature, and one work, indivisibly. The Lord saith to Petre, Blessed art thou, son of a dove. Now calleth Jesus Petrum, child of a dove, because he was filled with simplicity, and grace of the Holy Ghost. He saith, Neither flesh nor blood revealed this belief, but my Father who is in the heavens. His fleshly nature is called flesh and blood. standing through human venly Father, through the belief into Petre's heart. The Lord saith to Petre, Thou art stony. For the strength of his faith, and the constancy of his confession, he received the name; because he joined himself with firm mind to Crist, who is called stone by the Apostle Paul. And, I build my Church upon this stone; that is, over myself, with the belief which now thou utterest respecting me. All God's congregation is founded over the stone, that is, over Crist; because he is the ground-wall of all the building of his own. Church. All of God's Church are reckoned as one congregation, and that is built with chosen men, not with dead stones; and all the foundation of these bodily stones is placed over Crist; for we are through the belief reckoned his limbs, and he our head. Jesus saith, Hell's gates may do nought against my Church. Vices and erroneous doctrine are hell's gates, for they lead the sinful, as if through a gate, into hell-punishment. Many there are, but none of them has any power against the holy congregation; which is built upon the fast stone, Crist. nu be me cyddest. Eall goder zelaðung is ofer þam stane zebýtlod· þæt is ofer criste· forþon þe he is se grund-peall eallɲa þara zetimbrunze hir agenɲe cinican. Єalle goder cinican sýnd zetealde to anne zelapunze reo is mid coɲenum mannum getimbɲod na mid deadum stanum· J eall reo zebytlung þæna licnicɲa stana is ofer criste zelozod Fonpon pe pe beoð þuph pone zeleafan hir lima zerealde he une ealpa heapod. Se hælend cpæð. Ne mazon helle zatu naht togeaner minɲe eyɲican. Leahtɲardpollic lan sýnd helle zatu foppon pe hi læðað þone rýnfullan spýlce þuɲh geat into helle pite. Maneza rýnd ac heoɲa nan ne mæz onzean þa halzan zelapunze· þe is getimbrod uppon þam fœstan stane crirte. Fonpon þe se zelýƑeda þurh cristes zescyldnerra ætpint þam precednerrum þara deoFlicna cortnunza he cpæd. Ir de betate heofonan nicer cæze. Nir reo cæz ne gylden ne reolfɲen. ne of nanum antimbre zesmiðed ac ir re anpeald þe him ronzeaf þæt nan man ne cyme into zoder nice buton re halza petpur him geopenize þær infær· spa crist sýlf him to cрæð. гpa hрæt spa þu binst on eorðan þær bið gebunden on heofoAnd spa hpæt spa þu unbinst ofeɲ eorðan· þær bið unbunden on heofonum þirne anpeald he forzeaf nu petɲe eac ryððan ær hir uprtize eallum hir aportolum pa pa he heom onableop⚫ pur cpedende. Onfo halizne zart þæna rýnna þe ze forzeofað beod zonzifene 7 þam þe ze þa forgifenerse ofunnon him bið ofrozen forzizener. Nella pa aportoli næne rihtpirne mid heoɲa manrumunze zebından ne eac pone manfullan miltsiende unbindan· butan he mid soðre num. Because the believer, through Crist's protection, escapes from the dangers of devilish temptations, he saith, I commit to thee heaven's kingdom's key. The key is not either of gold, or silver, nor of any metal besmithed; but it is the power which he gave to him; that no man cometh into God's kingdom, unless the holy Petrus open to him the entrance as Crist himself said to him, Whatsoever thou bindest on earth, that is bounden in the heavens; and whatsoever thou unbindest on earth, that is unbounden in the heavens: this power he gave now to Petre, and also afterwards before his ascension to all his apostles, when he blew upon them, thus saying, Receive the Holy Ghost; the sins of them whom ye forgive are forgiven, and to them whom ye the forgiveness deny, from them is withdrawn forgiveness. The apostoli would not bind any righteous man with their excommunication; nor also, from pity, unbind the wicked man, unless he should turn, with true repentance, to the way of life. The same power hath the Almighty settled upon bishops and mass-priests, if they it after the Gospel volume carefully hold. And therefore is the key especially committed to Petre, that all prudent nations may know, that whosoever falls away from the unity of the faith which Petrus then confessed to Crist, that upon him is neither settled forgiveness of sins, nor entrance into the heavenly kingdom. deadbote zecynne to lifer peze. Done ýlcan anpeals hær re ælmihtiza zeti od bircopum mæsse-preostum· gif hi hit æfter þære godspellican zeretnesse capfullice healdad. Ac Fondi is seo cæze petre syndeɲlice betæht þæt ealle peodrcipe gleaplice to cnape pæt rpa hpæt spa oðrcýt Ƒɲam annerƑe þær gelearan þe petnur þa andette crirte þæt him ne bið getiðod nadon ne rýnna Forgÿfener ne infær þær heofonlican ɲices. Copious extracts from other Saxon homilies, inculcating the same doctrine, often too, in the very words of that here offered to the reader's notice, may be seen in Whelock's Bede; (pp. 236, 7, 8, 9.) also in the Preface to Mrs. Elstob's English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory, (Lond. 1709. pp. xxxix. xli. xliii.). The former work has a Latin translation of these passages; the latter, an English one. SERMON III. THE SUPREMACY. 2 Thess. ii. 15. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. FEW passages in the gospels have attracted a larger degree of critical attention, than that metaphorical address, in which our blessed Lord acknowledged and requited the manliness of St. Peter's confession. "Candidly and carefully consider," say papal advocates, "the promise of Jesus to the prince of the Apostles. In that memorable discovery of God's intentions may surely be discerned no obscure authority for the Pontiff's claims to jurisdiction over the whole Church of Christ. Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall |