S T/.1e Perfon ofCl;rifl t/;e only ~ck, &c. Difciples the way and manner how he would lay its Faun· dation, namely, in his Death and Sufferings, ver. 2. I. And thereon this Juppofecl Rock, being a little left unto his own fiability, fhewed himfelf to be but a Reed jhaken with the wind. For he is fo far fron~ puttinghimfel~under the weight ofthe building, that he attempts an obfirucrion of its Foun. dation. f-Ie 6eg,an to rebuke Chrijfi;imjelf for mentioning his fufferings,whercinalonethe Foundation of the Gofpel-Church was to be laid, ver. 22 . . And hereon he received the feverefi: Rebuke that ever the Lord Jefus gave unto any of his Dif– ciples, 'V er. 2 3. And fo it is known that afterwards through furprizal and temptation, he did what lay in him to recall thrlt Confej)ion which here he made, and whereon the Church was to be built. For that no fleih mi~ht glory in it felf, he that wasfing;ular in this ConfefiionofChrifl:, Wqsfo alfo in the denial of him, And if he in his own perfon manife!l:ed how unmeet he w.as to be the Foundati?n of the~hurch,theymui1.: be firangely mfatuated who can l~ppofe hts pretended Suc– ce!fors 1o to be. But fome men will rather have the Church to be utterly without any Foundation, then that it fhould not be the Pope. The vanityof this pretence being' removed, the fubfiance 0 ----..>. of the great JV[y!fery contained in the J\ttefl:ation given by \./y' our Saviqur unto the Confeffion of Peter., _and the promife thereunto annexed~ may be eomprized in the enfuing Alier~ tions. . / J, ThePerfon of Chrift, theSon of the living God, as vefi:– ed with his Offices, whereunto he was called and anointed, is the Foundation of the Church, the Rock whereon it is built. ·1.. The Power and Policy f)f Hell will be nlwaies engaged in op_pofition unto the Relation oftheChurchunto this Foun– dation, or the building ofit on th~s Rock. )· The CJJurch that is /Juilt on .this Reek, !hall never be dif I •
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