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LECTURE THIRD. SIMON, SURNAMED PETER. Matthew xvi. 13-20. Mark
viii. 27-30. Luke ix. 18-21. John vi. 66-69. Ver. 15-18.?"He saith
unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Ana " Simon Peter answered
and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of " the living God. And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed " art thou, Simon
Barjona: for Jlesh and blood liaih not revealed " it unto ihee, but
.my Father which is in heaven. And I say unto " ihee, That thou art
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my " church; and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it." If Andrew has, as we have
seen, good claims to be set first in order among the Apostles,
Peter stands next to him even in that respect, and far above him in
respect of work and distinction,?above all the other Apostles
indeed, Paul alone excepted, and even he rather succeeded to Peter
than eclipsed him. We closed the last lecture with a reflection on
how great results flowed from Andrew's prompt and earnest zeal in
bringing Peter to Jesus; but now, when we begin to look at these
results, Andrew, who was in one very important sense the originator
of them all, must be almost lost sight of. The holy record says,
"Andrewfirst findeth bis own brother Simon, and saith unto him, we
have found the Messias, which is being interpreted, the Christ, and
he brought him to Jesus:" but these are only a few words, and when
one has paused over them in thought for a little, he must go on to
read, "When Jesus beheld him he said, thou art Simon, the son of
Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, by interpretation, a
stone." We may not linger over the character of the plain, quiet,
earnest man, but must follow the record as it tells us how one of
far different qualities,?qualities the reverse of plain, and that
would not allow of...
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