...character, and has since attained a wonderful renown. Aside from that saying of the Savior to him, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my Church," he was one of those apostles and prophets on which, as a foundation, the Church is built, Jesus Christ...

...read in letters, six feet long, the inscription in mosaic of Matthew xvi: 18 — " Tu es Petrus," &c., (Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church), while upon its ceiling was a mosaic, in execution perfect, as it is blasphemous in design, of Jehovah,...

...which the Romans rested the power of the Pope, and said, ' that the text on which Dr. Eck relied — Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church — did not refer to St. Peter, still less to any of his successors, but to the Lord Jesus Christ,...

...great roar thundering thro' dome and aisle, till every crevice and corner recognized the present God. " Thou art Peter and on this rock will I build my Church." We were standing upon Peter's grave, — this was that Church, against which the gates of hell had...

...God" was said to be " at hand" only. Another proof. g0 again, when our Lord blessed Peter, he said, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church ;" not have I built it, or am L building it. What says St. Paul. In like manner St. Paul says : " It...

...been written, may it be said, that she is not merely the only one founded on the words of the Messiah, "Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church :" but also, that we are indebted to her for the recognition and expansion of the democratic theory...

...concerning which theologians have for a long time disputed. The first is founded on these words : " Thou art Peter and on this rock will I build my church." The second arises from the promise of the Saviour, in which, in speaking of his church, he KIVS, "...

...councils, the opinions of scholastics, and even from those celebrated words of Christ to Peter — " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church." Luther took higher and bolder ground, denied the infallibility of councils, and appealed to Scripture...

...dome, like a cloud poised by the wind ! Such life-like mosaics, and the words spanning the circle, "Thou art Peter ; and on this rock will I build my church." Such a flood of marble floor ! such a gorgeously canopied altar rising out of it ! Protestant sentiments...

...themselves, or one another? For instance, on that text which Rome claims as at the foundation of her power, " Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church," one father says, " Faith is the rock ; " another says, " Christ is the rock," and then in another place...