A History of the Church

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Excerpt from A History of the Church: Beginning With the Tree of Life, and Up to the Twentieth Century First - That St. Peter was deputed by Christ to be his vicar, and the head of the Catholic church, and that the bishops of Rome, 'being his successors, have the same aposto'lic authority, for our Saviour said in Matt, xvi. 18, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church? By which rock they understand St. Peter himself, as the name signifies, and not his confession, as the Protestants explain it. And a succession in the church being now supposed necessary under the New Testament, - as Aaron had his succession under the old dispensation, which was a figure of the new-this suc cession can now, they contend, be shown only in the chair of St. Peter at Rome, where, it is asserted, he presided twenty-five years previous to his death, there: fore the bishops of Rome are his true successors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.