whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed primacy was not bestowed immediately and directly his resurrection conferred the jurisdiction of chief [Chap. 1.] To this manifest teaching of the Holy Scriptures, as are clearly opposed the perverse opinions of those who, ever persist on the same authority in the Church, which, founded upon the rock, will stand firm to the end of it has ever been understood by the Catholic Church, the Lord in his Church, deny that upon Peter alone, That which in the blessed Apostle Peter, Jesus Christ ferred by Christ ; or of those who assert that the same pastor and ruler over all his flock, saying: Feed my through her on Peter as minister of the Church. and enduring good of the Church, of necessity must IN THE ROMAN PONTIFFS also in heaven. And upon Simon alone Jesus after upon blessed Peter himself, but upon the Church, and of the sheep, instituted to secure the perpetual health upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven ; and lambs, feed my sheep. 68 ROMAN CATHOLICISM distorting the form of government established by Christ our Lord, the prince of shepherds and great shepherd a true and particular primacy of jurisdiction was con- PERPETUITY OF THE PRIMACY OF BLESSED PETER beyond all the other Apostles, separately or together,