Transcribed from the 1850 Francis & John Rivington edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org LONDON: GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE. * * * * * AN ESSAY ON PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. * * * * * BY THE VENERABLE JOHN SINCLAIR M.A. ARCHDEACON OF MIDDLESEX, AND VICAR OF KENSINGTON. * * * * * LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1850. * * * * * ON PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. “Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.”—_Sixth Article of Religion_. “As we deny not those things that are written, so we refuse those that are not written.”—_Jerome_. {1} “The Spirit of God, therefore, is the only infallible judge here; and has declared as plainly as any successive judges can, in those things that are necessary to life and salvation, what is to be believed and to be done; which if we believe and practise in particular, and do also in general, and implicitly believe and stand in a readiness to obey the rest of the Scripture, when the sense thereof appears to us, we are in a safe condition, and need not doubt but it will go well with us in the other state.”—_Works of Henry More_, pp. 453, 454.