Points in question, _generally_, inequality in the Apostolic College: _specially_, the appointment of one over the rest; resolution of these tried by four examinations:--1. Into the words and acts of Christ; which relate to the Apostles.--2. Into those which seem to mark the institution of a singular authority.--3. Into the mode of writing used by the evangelists.--4. Into the history of the rising Church.--A concurrence of these four points would prove the two questions 200 The analysis of what has been written shows this concurrence 201 Twelve arguments from what has been written, proving the inequality of the Apostolic college, and Peter's Primacy 203 What is the force and nature of the Primacy.--Six proofs establishing this to consist in superior jurisdiction 209 Enquiry into the end and purpose of the Primacy: for the knowledge of the intention and purpose equivalent at least to a _negative_ rule, ascertaining what _must_ be given to it 212 Three classes of reasons, typical, analogical, and real, ascertain for us this purpose.--1. Typical. Parallel of Peter with Abraham and its results 213 Parallel of Peter with Judah and its results 214 ii. Analogical. Analogy of body, house, kingdom, city, and fold, and its results.--And of universal, and each particular Church on one hand, and Primate and bishops on the other 217 iii. Real, whether educed from texts containing the institution of the Primacy, or from the inherent properties of the Church. 1. Educed from texts 219 2. Educed from properties of the Church; _first_, its _identity_; _secondly_, its _unity_; _thirdly_, its _catholicity_; scriptural setting forth of unity 220 Further illustration from Protestant opinions of the Church's unity.-- A. First, that of Anglicans, of unity in particular Churches, but not in the universal Church, represented by Dodwell 222 B. Second opinion, set forth by Vitringa, of distinction between the necessity of internal and that of external unity 225 C. Third opinion, of agreement in fundamentals 232 Two causes of this being held, one theoretical, the other practical.--The former stated 233 The practical cause 234 Reasons educed, _thirdly_, from the _Catholicity_ of the Church, with which the Primacy is bound up.--Catholicity has two parts, one _material_ and one _formal_ 236