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heroic Saint Peter — of that Peter whose declaration of the 

 di^anity of the Eedeemer, whUst others hung in doubt, 

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

 art Peter, and upon this rock I mil 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 mth which the pride and wisdom, 

 the honoiu- and splendour, of this transitory world shrink 

 into a nameless, an inappreciable vanity — of that Peter, 

 who, mth 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 b}' whom 

 the first declaration of salvation was made to the j^eople, 

 by whose advice the first churches were planted, b}' whose 

 counsel they were governed, by whom the prejudices of 

 Judaism were first fairly surmounted, and the Grospel 

 preached to the Gentiles — that Peter who, imdismayed 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 God struck his chains, 

 and led him forth from the precincts of the prison house 



