440 Cottame4tary %pan the Glel C i6, Verle 18, Thass art Peter ] i e. Thou hap .a, art a living (}off in the fpirituall Temple, like as 'Peter faith all other Chritlians are, I Pet.2.y. Arid here Chriíl tels Peter why at lira! he gave him that name. Vpon this Rock] That is, upon this thyRock thy T?verb.Vom, fubtlanttall confettion of roe. Auflin faith, Cher y, syChrl and Sem i y Peter, But this, faith Sta leton ç 3 da` I. So the Schoolwen fay, that Sr zsflirt ftood fo ¡ much for grace, 6.c., that heyeelded too little to free-will. Bast it was a true layingcof learned D.Whitakers inhis anfwer to Canapiah, Patres in maxinth Aunt noiri, i, m,ltiivarit,,inrnirirnis veflri, f xar,sináHr, Imiabuildma Church concionati ] Chritl calsnet the Church ß+ñr, or cumoncio ale. e yÀnv' which is properly a-convention ofLords and Statefuten, se. Cauterou. but i crnriry, which is an Alf mbly of the Common people, cren thofe ofthe lower rank and condition according to that I Car. I.26. and LHk I.48, he bath regarded thelow eflateofhie Lod-maiden, Andthegates ofhell, &c.] That ir, all the power and policy of hell combined. Thedevil Iendeth his inIirucnenrs,the Church- es en:mies, his livenheads to plot,. and his ten horns to putt. Craft and cruelty go together in them, as the Alp never wand.rs alone : and as the Scripture fpeaks ofthofe birds of prey, Ifa.34 56. ,one ofthem wants his mate. Bat yet all this alai! not pre- vail : the devil may (hake his chainat theSaints, nut let his fangs in them. For why ? they Aland upon a rockthat id higher then they,. &that. the floodsoftetnptationsand oppotitions cannot come fo much as at their feet :or ifthey reach ro the heel, yet they come not at the head, or ifthey fhould dathhigher upon them, yet they break theinfelves. ShallnotprevailagaiNfi it ] No, though the devil fhould dif Pracbamse'vally charge at theChurch his greacell ordinance: fay they were as big oivanicy.,ra;, as thofe t wo call by Alphanfue Dukeof Ferrara, the one whereof he called the earthguake, and theother Grandia6olo, or the great devil. Á f. An may the Catholike Church erre infttndamentals ? I t isanfwered, that though the univerlall Church cf Chritti, taken for his myfticall to iyupon earth, and complete number of D.Preflou, b soled, cannot erre in matters fundamental!, yet the external! vitible part of the Church may erre, b:caute the truthofGod may be locked up,within thehearts of fach a company, as in competi- tion
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