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....

“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 a

By the same Author . I. DISSERTATIONS vindicating the CHURCH of ENGLAND in respect to some Essential Points of Polity and Doctrine. II. VINDICATION of the EPISCOPAL or APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION. * * * Extracted from the foregoing Work. III. MEMOIR of the LIFE and TIMES of the RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. IV. QUESTIONS ILLUSTRATING the CATECHISM of the CHURCH of ENGLAND. V. QUESTIONS on the ORDERS for MORNING and EVENING PRAYER. VI. An ESSAY on CHURCH PATRONAGE. VII. A CHARGE delivered to the

In the printed book Rev. Sinclair printed side notes in the margins to explain the points he was trying to make.  As these made the text itself difficult to read, and added little value to the narrative, in this transcription they are placed here, together with the pages on which they occur, so that the development of the points can be seen in overview. Side note Page Diversity of religious opinions a source of anxiety 1 On account of others and on our own 1 Confusion from the number of guides 2