Peter answered for them all, “Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God”; which I said is the foundation of the faith of the whole Church; from which our Saviour takes the occasion of saying, “upon this stone I will build my Church”: by which it is manifest, that by the foundation-stone of the Church was meant the fundamental article of the Church’s faith. But why then, will some object, doth our Saviour interpose these words, “thou art Peter?” If the original of this text had been rigidly translated, the reason would easily have appeared. We are therefore to consider, that the apostle Simon was surnamed “Stone,” which is the signification of the Syriac word “Cephas,” and of the Greek word Πετρος . Our Saviour therefore, after the confession of that fundamental article, alluding to His name, said (as if it were in English) thus, “Thou art ‘stone,’ and upon this stone I will build my Church”: which is as much as to say, this article, that “I am the Christ,” is the foundation of all the faith I require in those that are to be members of my Church. Neither is this allusion to a name an unusual thing in common speech. But it had been a strange and obscure speech if our Saviour, intending to build His Church on the person of