prejudicing in the least his Infallibility, provided he does not internally assent to them[777]; so that the so much boasted Infallibility is by him reduced at last to this; that the Pope cannot internally assent to an Error: which is confining his Infallibility to himself, and consequently disqualifying him for the Office of a Teacher. Infallibility, even thus curtailed, is, no doubt, a most valuable Treasure to the Owner, but of no more Use to the rest of Mankind than a Treasure concealed under-ground; and, on that very Account, it ought in common Sense to be exploded. But it is scarce worth the while to quarrel with _Bellarmine_ about it, since he cannot be so unreasonable as to require us, in virtue of such a Prerogative, to pay any Regard to the Decisions of the Pope, till such time, at least, as we know them to be agreeable to his private Opinion: and this is what we can never know, since every Pope may, like _Liberius_, externally admit an Opinion as true; and, at the same time, internally reject it as false. [Sidenote: Liberius _returns to_ Rome.] But, to return to _Liberius_; he was at last, in regard of his ready Compliance with the Will of the Emperor, allowed to return to _Rome_; but on Condition, that he should govern jointly with _Felix_[778]. Letters were accordingly dispatched both to _Felix_, and the _Roman_ Clergy, to acquaint them therewith. _Sozomen_ seems to insinuate, that they both governed thus for some time[779]. [Sidenote: Felix _is driven out._] But, according to St. _Jerom_, and the Two Presbyters _Marcellinus_ and _Faustinus_, who lived then at _Rome_, and were Eye-witnesses of what they relate, _Felix_ was driven not only from the See, but out of the City, as soon as _Liberius_ entered it; which he did on the 2d of _August_ 358. in a kind of Triumph, being met and received by the whole People, with loud Acclamations of Joy[780]. _Felix_ returned soon after, at the Instigation of a few of the Ecclesiastics, who had, contrary to their Oath, adhered to him; and even attempted to perform Divine Service in the Basilic of _Julius_, beyond the _Tiber_; but the enraged Multitude drove him out a second time, and, with him, all the Ecclesiastics, who had acknowleged him[781]. _Socrates_ writes, that the Emperor himself was in the End obliged to give him up, and consent to his Expulsion[782]. Mention is made in the Pontificals of a bloody Persecution, raised in _Rome_ by _Liberius_, and his Party, against the Partisans of _Felix_, who, it is said, were inhumanly murdered in the Streets, in the Baths, in all public Places, and even in the Churches[783]. But as none of the Antients take the least Notice of such Cruelties, I will not charge _Liberius_ with them, upon the bare Authority of such Records. _Felix_, being driven from _Rome_, withdrew to a small Estate he had on the Road to _Porto_, and there spent the remaining Part of his Life in Retirement[784]. _Sozomen_ supposes him to have died soon after[785].