The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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Title: The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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VERS. XVIII.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.

Thou art Peter, &c.

I. THERE is nothing, either in the Dialect of the Nation, or in reason, forbids us to think, that our Saviour used this very same Greek word; since such Gre∣cizings, were not unusual in that Nation. But be it granted, (which is asserted more without controversie) that he used the Syriac word; yet I deny, that he used that very word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Cepha, which he did presently after: but he pronounced it Cephas, after the Greek manner; or he spoke it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Cephai, in the adjective sense, according to the Syriac, formation. For how, I pray, could he be understood by the Disciples, or by Peter himself, if in both places he had retained the same word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Thou art a Rock, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 And upon this Rock I will build my Church? It is readily answered, by the Papists, That Peter was the Rock. But let them tell me, why Matthew used not the same word in Greek, if our Saviour used the same word in Syriac. If he had inti∣mated, that the Church should be built upon Peter, it had been plainer, and more agreeable to the vulgar Idiom, to have said, Thou art Peter, and upon thee I will build my Church.

II. The words concerning the Rock, upon which the Church was to be built, are evidently taken out of Esay; Chap. XXVIII. 16. Which, the New Testament being in∣terpreter in very many places, do most plainly speak Christ. When therefore Peter, the first of all the Disciples (from the very first beginning of the preaching of the Gospel) had pronounced most clearly of the person of Christ, and had declared the Mystery of the Incarnation, and confessed the Deity of Christ, the minds of the Disci∣ples are with good reason called back to those words of Esay, that they might learn to acknowledg, who that Stone was, that was set in Sion for a foundation never to be shaken; and whence it came to pass, that that foundation remained so unshaken; namely thence; that he was not a Creature, but God himself, the Son of God.

III. Thence therefore Peter took his surname, not that he should be argued to be that Rock; but because he was so much to be employed in building a Church upon a Rock; whether it were that Church, that was to be gathered out of the Jews, of which he was the chief Minister, or that of the Gentiles (concerning which the discourse here is principally of) unto which he made the first entrance by the Gospel.