Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

28 POPERY CONDEMNED EY
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only immoveable foundation, this is the only
" blessed rock of the faith which Peter confess-
" ed, Thou art the Chrht^ the Son of the living
" God'^r
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The Church,'* says St. Augustine, " is at
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present assaulted by diverse trials, as with
" floods and storms, but it is not destroyed ;
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because it is founded upon the rock whence
" Peter received his name ; for the rock is not
" named from Peter, but he from* the rock ; as
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Christ is not so named from the Christian,
" but the Christian from him. On this account
" the Lord says, Upon this rock I ivill build my
" church ; because Peter had said. Thou art
" the Christy the Son of the living God, Upon
" this rock, therefore, says he, which thou
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hast confessed, I will build my church ; for
" Christ is the rock upon which even Peter him-
" self was built t."
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What," says the same author, " is the
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meaning of these words. Upon this rock I
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iiuHl build mij church It is, upon this faith,
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upon this testimony, Thou art the Christy the
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Son of the living Gcr/|."
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When Christ called this confession, the
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rock," says Basil of Seleucia, *' he named
" him who first made it, Peter ;
giving him an
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appellation which might be a token of his con-
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fession :
* De Trmit. lib. 2.
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Tract, i 24.
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Tiact. ic, in Ep. Joan.