“Peter also to whom the Lord commends His sheep to be fed and guarded, on whom He laid and founded the Church,1 says, that gold and silver he has none, but declares that he is rich in Christ’s grace.”—De Habitu Virg. pp. 356–7. “Peter likewise, on whom the Church was founded by the good pleasure of the Lord,2 lays it down in his epistle, &c.”—De Bono Patient. p. 494. “To the seven children there is evidently conjoined their mother, the origin and root, which afterwards bare seven churches, herself
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