¶The answere.
Be it so, yt that is true, yt Pe∣ter
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Be it so, yt that is true, yt Pe∣ter
bare a figure of the church, and that Christes wordes to him I wil geue thee the keyes &c. haue a more highe vnder∣standing being referred to the church then if they be referred to Peters person, bycause of the vnitye, the primacie, & pre∣rogatiue of the church, whych was begone and institute in Peter, the geuing of the keies, and the highe power to lose & binde, was not to bee referred to the onlye person of Peter & there to ende, but to continue in the churche stil by succession yet all this is but referred to the churche by the meanes of Peter and through Peter, and so shall contynue by succession whiles christēdome endureth. For whē christ sayd to hī alone
thou art Peter. &c. he made of hym the beginning of ye church saying I will build my church vpon the or vpon this stone. &c