St. Peter, His Name and His Office, as Set Forth in Holy Scripture

The joint force, identity, and reciprocal relations of the three texts 104 1. They are appropriated to Peter only. 2. Priority of time is assigned to him. 3. Their equivalence....

General proof of this as to the Primacy in the Acts 117 1. Peter oftener mentioned than all the rest put together. 2. The leading part assigned to him. 3. Peter mentioned direct...

Points in question, _generally_, inequality in the Apostolic College: _specially_, the appointment of one over the rest; resolution of these tried by four examinations:--1. Into...

of the Primacy, or from the inherent properties of the Church. 1. Educed from texts 219 2. Educed from properties of the Church; _first_, its _identity_; _secondly_, its _unity_...

I. Force of the proof _in itself_ and _absolutely_.--Two conditions requisite, and here found, authenticity of the documents, and clearness of their evidence.--Number and harmon...

Our Lord tells us that He came upon earth to "finish a work;" and He likewise tells us what that work was, the setting up a living society of men, who should dwell in Him and He...

Having promised[1] and bestowed on Simon a new name, prophetic of the peculiar position which he was to occupy in the Church, and having set forth the meaning contained in that...

edifying of the body of Christ; until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness...

Our Lord has hitherto, while on earth,[1] ruled as its visible head that body of disciples which He had chosen out of the world, and which His Father had given Him. And this bod...

Before we compare together more exactly what was said to the Apostles in common, and what to Peter in particular, it is desirable to consider briefly two other points, which wil...

hungered and _those that were with him_?" Of our Lord and the Apostles it is said, Mark iii. 11, "And He made twelve, _that they should be with Him_:" and xvi. 10, "She went and...

The [1]purpose of S. Luke in writing the Acts seems to have been to set before us the labours and sufferings of the Apostles in planting and propagating the Church. But he has d...

In leaving the Gospels and the Acts we quit those writings in which we should expect, beforehand, that divine government to be set forth, which it pleased our Lord to establish...

theirs was 'the adoption of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises,' while 'the Gentiles praise God for...

The doctrine[1] of S. Paul has brought us to a most interesting point of the subject, what, namely, is the principle of unity in the Church. A short consideration of this will s...

It would now seem to be made clear to all that the controversy on S. Peter's Primacy relates _generally_ to the question of inequality in the Apostolic college, and _specially_...

[1]As the natural end of all proof is to give assurance, every kind of it must be considered a mean to persuade and determine the mind. Not but that there are different kinds, a...

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Archaic spelling has been retained. Punctuation errors corrected without comment. Footnote markers in original book are inconsistent. Some come before the reference cited, some...