The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The answere.

I answere, that not Saint Peter, but the confession which he made, is that rocke of the church, against which hell gates shal not preuaile. And this is not my opinion onely, but Saint Be∣da, Saint Austen, Saint Chrysostome, Saint Hylarie, and sun∣drie verie learned papists, doe teach the same doctrine constant∣ly. These are Saint Austens wordes: Tu es Petrus, & super hanc petram quam confessus es,* 1.1 super hanc petram quam cognouisti dicens, tu es Christus filius Dei viui, aedificabo ecclesiam meam. Id est, super meipsum filium Dei viui, aedificabo ecclesiam meam: super me edificabo te, non me super te: thou art Peter (saith Christ) and vppon this rocke which thou hast confessed, vpon this rocke which thou hast acknowledged,* 1.2 say∣ing: thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God, will I build my church, that is, vpon my selfe the sonne of the liuing God will I build my church, vppon my selfe will I build thee, not my selfe vpon thee.

Saint Chrysostome writeth thus: Columnae quidem, quoni∣am virtute sua ecclesiae robur sunt:* 1.3 fundamentum, quòd in con∣fessione insorum fundata est ecclesia, dicente domino: Tu es Pe∣trus, & super hanc petram fundabo ecclesiam meam. The A∣postles are the pillers, because by their vertue they are the strength of the Church: they are the foundation, because the Church is built in their confession; when the Lorde saieth: thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke will I build my church. Loe, this text vpon which the Papists build their popish pri∣macie, is vnderstood of all the Apostles, not of Peter alone; nei∣ther is the church built vpon any of their persons, but vpon the ioynt confession of them all:* 1.4 for Peter made the confession in the name of them all, as Saint Chrysostome truely saith, which confoundeth the Papists vtterly.

S. Hylarie hath these words: Haec fides ecclesiae fundamen∣tum est:* 1.5 per hanc fidem, infirmae aduersus eam sunt portae infero∣rum: haec fides regni caelestis habet claues: this faith is the foundation of the church: by this faith hell gates shall not pre∣uaile against it; this faith hath the keyes of heauen.

The receiued popish glosse vpon this text, doth vnderstand by the rocke, Peters faith, and the confession which he made. Panormitan and Syluester both being great papists,* 1.6 are of the same opinion.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Aug. de verb. Dom. ser. 13.
• * 1.2

  These are most plaine words.
• * 1.3

  Chrys. serm de p••nt. tom▪ 3.
• * 1.4

  Saint Bede hold∣eth the same opi∣nion.
• * 1.5

  Hila••. de Trinit. lib. 6. P. 103.
• * 1.6

  Gloss. in mat. 16. See Panormitan, de electione, cap. significasti.