| Silvester Palmer - 360 pages
...to overthrow the supremacy of St. Peter, by interpreting the words of our Saviour, Matt. xvi. 18. " Thou art Peter ; and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" to your own side of the argument, by saying, (p. 11.)... | |
| Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it*. Nathanael saith unto him, Rabbi, Thou art the Son... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 548 pages
...be oppressed with a cloud of witnesses : for what more plain than the commission given to Peter ? " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church ;" and, " To thee will I give the keys :" and again, " For thee have I prayed that thy faith fail not ; but... | |
| Benjamin Allen - Church history - 1824 - 492 pages
...years, and the determinations of the council of Nice." When Eckius contended, that the expressions " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church." " And I will give unto thee the keys," evinced the supremacy of St. Peter and his successors; that this was the explanation given by... | |
| John Henry Hobart - Fasts and feasts - 1824 - 344 pages
...kingdom, of which Christ is the king: thus, in our Lord's words, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and I will give unto thee the keys...Heaven ;' where the Church and the Kingdom of Heaven mean the same thing. As a family, a city, and a kingdom, are societies, and the Christian Church is... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - Anglo-Saxons in literature - 1824 - 450 pages
...insisted upon certain declarations of the Saviour as applicable to the Pope and his successors ; such as " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." — " Behold, I have given unto you the keys of Heaven,"... | |
| Joseph Wolff - Eretz Israel - 1824 - 352 pages
...pope is necessary for our salvation, and I shall most heartily subscribe to your wish. Maronite. " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Mat. xvi. 18. /. And our Lord faithfully accomplished... | |
| Joseph Wolff - 1824 - 374 pages
...pope is necessary for our salvation, and I shall most heartily subscribe to your wish. Maronite. " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. xvi. 18. J. And our Lord faithfully accomplished... | |
| Elias Smith - Christian life - 1825 - 190 pages
...Christ's body. This is plain. That the word kingdom means the church, is plain, from Matth. xvi. 18, 19, " And upon this rock will I build my church." " And I will give unto thee the keys cf the kingdom of heaven." What is called the church in one verse, is called the kingdom of heaven... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...blood has not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this' rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matt. xvi. 16 — 18.) Immediately after Christ foretold... | |
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