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heroic Saint Peter of that Peter whose declaration of the 

 divinity of the Kedeemer, whilst others hung in doubt, 

 drew from the Saviour's lips the memorable words, ' Thou 

 art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church ' 

 of that Peter who was one of the first and principal 

 supports of a fabric whose greatness reaches from earth to 

 heaven, and whose glory shall fill immensity of that 

 Peter who was ordained by Christ Himself to be a minister 

 of the New Testament who was selected by the great 

 Head of the church to celebrate His sacraments, to dispense 

 His ordinances, and to establish His kingdom to whom 

 was entrusted the care of interests, and the dispensation of 

 blessings in comparison with which the pride and wisdom, 

 the honour and splendour, of this transitory world shrink 

 into a nameless, an inappreciable vanity of that Peter, 

 who, with his brother Andrew, was first called to be the 

 ordained minister of the King of kings, the chosen pro- 

 genitor of the Christian priesthood of that Peter by whom 

 the first declaration of salvation was made to the people, 

 by whose advice the first churches were planted, by whose 

 counsel they were governed, by whom the prejudices of 

 Judaism were first fairly surmounted, and the Grospel 

 preached to the Grentiles that Peter who, undismayed by 

 imprisonment, declared to the Sanhedrim his determination 

 to persist in the preaching of the cross that Peter, from 

 whose fettered limbs the Angel of Grod struck his chains, 

 and led him forth from the precincts of the prison house 



