Chap,L6, according toStMATTx svv. 439_ faith to fupport him at the lafl hour of his life : nor` could he have any ref{ within, till he had taken up the Bible, and clipping it in his arms,faid, Lerd, I believe allthat uwritten in this holy book, Verfe IC Simon Peter nnfwered, &c.] As the mouth of the company, andone that being, haply, elver, and Purelybolder then the relf, fpake thus for them. But what a fiul mouth ofblafphe- my opened thofe two Popes ( Peters pretended fuccefíours ) Lee Peteu n in co4. the fitff, andNicolas the third, that boalfed, that Peter was taken fortium indi ï into fellowfhipof the individual) Trinity ? Neither can that be dux Trinitatis excufed that Theroncommenteth on the former verses ( Whom do É urr tsAia. men fad that /am ? But whom fay 7e that I 41» ?) that our Sa- viour there purpofely oppofth his Difciples to men, to intimate that they were fornethingmore then men. This is fame thing like that Note ofa Latine Pailler upon Exo.30.3i. where, becaufe it is Paid, verf.3 a. Vponmansflefh the helyointmentJhall net bepoured, thou (halt anoint Aaron andherhinos therewith , thence infers, that Prietls are Angels, and have not humane flesh. Thefe were ham. mane gloff:s, and favoured as littleof Godsrneas,ing, as that unla- voury fpecch ofPeter,v.22. of this Chapter,far the which he hear- eth,Cet thee beeinde me, Satan ;thoufavouredt net, &c. Verse Thouart Chrift the Sonne of ebo living god] A (bort Ltias nsá confeflion, but fuch as in few, containeth whatfoever we be- "ß,rt sïra- lieve concerning the perfon and office of Chriff , Breryie e iutx Git7 ¡Set Iona plane ÿ3 aurea eft bec con(ZJPo. Weil ray we fly of it, as hies habent ScBartholomew (quoted by El ionylita) did of the Do_irine cf t eu!or lemTS- Divinity, that it is, Kai moo;;, r ki ins. s-+, Little andyet large. xis adjeEtcs. Verle 17. Bleffedart thou, Simon] Thefe and the following tyrct words ofour Saviour to Peter, were meant to all the Apoflles alto, 7oh.ao a2,73. Chriff took hisbeginning of one, to teach unity, in his Church, in the corsfefñon of faith. Note this again the Plpifls, who mifcrably wreff, and deprsve this text, to the pro- ving oftb. Papal' Monarchy. (fregory the great, though he Sli led himfelf a fervant of Gods fervants , and detefled the Pope of Conftantinople for arrogating the title of U liverfall B fhep, du- ring the raignof Mattritiou : yet when he was (lain, and fuceeed- ed by the traitour Phocae, he ceafednot to flatter the fame Phocas, to co al Mend unto him the careof the ChurchofRome, and toex- J;c. Revins, hart him to remember this layingof our Saviour, Thou art Peter, h.(lPontif etc. and for noother erul, then that he might extendhis power by the favour, daleparriçide. Verfe S.
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