without a particle of folly.… This is the book untainted by any error; but is pure, unalloyed, perfect truth. Why? Because God wrote it. Ah! Charge God with error if ye please; tell him his book is not what it ought to be.”42 In 1874, four years after the first Vatican Council and the proclamation of the doctrine of papal infallibility, Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled “Infallibility.” He did not wonder that people sought infallibility somewhere but was astonished that they would canonize the