{9} “For many of you hold the Pope’s proposal _ex cathedrâ_, to be sufficient and obliging” (obligatory); “some a Council without a Pope; some neither of them severally, but only both together; some not this neither in matter of manners, which Bellarmine acknowledges, and tells us it is all one in effect, as if they denied it” (to be) “sufficient in matter of faith; some not in matter of faith neither think this proposal infallible, without the acceptation of the Church universal; some deny the infallibility of the present Church, and only make the tradition of all ages the infallible propounder: yet if you were agreed what and what only is the infallible propounder, this would not satisfy us; nor yet to say, that all is fundamental which is propounded sufficiently by him: for though agreeing in this, yet you might still disagree whether such or such a doctrine were propounded or not; or if propounded, whether sufficiently, or only insufficiently. And it is so known a thing, that in many points you do so, that I assure myself you will not deny it.”—Chillingworth, vol. i. p. 118. {10} See Evidence against Catholicism, by Rev. J. Blanco White, p. 94. {11} Matt. xvi. 18, 19. Luke xxii. 32. John xxi. 17. {12a} See Stillingfleet’s “Vindication,” p. 418. {12b} The phrases “to bind and loose” were Jewish, and most frequent in their writings. It belonged only to the teachers among the Jews to bind and loose. When the Jews set any apart to be a preacher, they used these words: “Take thou liberty to teach what is bound and what is loose.”—_Strype’s Preface to the Posthumous Remains of Dr. Lightfoot_, p. 38. See Dr. A. Clarke’s commentary in loco. {12c} Compare Matt. xvii. 18, with John xx. 22, 23. {13a} _See manuscript volume by the Honourable Archibald Campbell_, _a Nonjuring Bishop_, _first in Scotland_, _and afterwards in London_. Also Bishop Horsley’s Sermons, vol. i. p. 293. {13b} For a full exposition of this text, see Remarks by Granville Sharp, Esq., cited by Dr. Adam Clarke in his commentary. {13c} See Dr. Isaac Barrow’s Treatise on the Pope’s Supremacy, and Rev. J. Fletcher’s Lectures on the Roman Catholic Religion, p. 94. {13d} Eph. ii. 20. {13e} 1 Cor. iii. 11. {13f} 1 Cor. xii. 28. {14a} Rev. xxi. 14. {14b} “Seeing the Romanists themselves acknowledge, that he was Bishop of Antioch, before he was Bishop of Rome; we require them to show, why so great an inheritance as this, should descend to the younger rather than the elder, according to the ordinary manner of descents? Especially, seeing Rome hath little else to allege for this preferment, but only that St. Peter was crucified in it: which was a very slender reason to move the Apostle so to respect it.”—Extract from Archbishop Usher’s Speech in the Castle Chamber, Dublin, Nov. 22, 1622. See Dr. Parr’s Life of Usher, p. 23.