John Trapp on Matthew 16:17

Verse 17. Blessed art thou, Simon] These and the following words of our Saviour to Peter, were meant to all the Apostles also, Joh. 20. 22, 23. Christ took his beginning of one, to teach unity in his Church, in the confession of faith. Note this against the Papists, who miserably wrest, and [illegible: 1 word] this text, to the proving of the [illegible: 1 word] Monarchy. Gregory the great, though he stiled himself a servant of Gods servants, and detested the Pope of Censtantinople for arrogating the title of [illegible: 2 words], during the raign of Mauritius: yet when he was [illegible: 1 word], and succeeded by the traitour Phocas, he ceased not to flatter the same Phocas, to commend unto him the care of the Church of Rome, and to exhort [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. him to remember this saying of our Saviour, Thou art Peter, &c. and for no other end, then that he might extend his power by the favour of the parricide.