I04 Of Free-will. Conditions {hall have Salvation. But 2. His bare Sacrifice it felf without euchapplicationfaveth none, any further than to bring them under the termsofthe laid Covenant. It is apparent by experience,that Chria doth not undo all the hurt that Adam did ; immediately to all, or any one in the world, no not till death, nonor till theRefurre&ion. Sin and mifery is í1i11 upon us. Infants {hew as foon as theycome to the ufe of reafon; that they were not brought to the Innocency that Adam had be- fore the Fall. ' -You your felves diftingui{hthe Impetration from the Ap. plication of Salvation as to the adult, and the reafon is the fame as to Infants, thoughthe condition be not the fame. Shew usaptomife of the Salvationof all Infants, and we will believe it. 5. Indeed they arePaved conditionally as the adult are ; and the con- dition is expreffed in Scripture, [That they be the Children of the * saith rwiffe coot. car- Faithful, dedicated to God. ] The Parents and their Seedare in the ois. pg. 136' e. u: De fame Covenant. And this is all that God revealethof them. * font;raetnb tsfaffaunmcioa i fun But whether God do allo, without a Promife, fave any of the Chil- notis obtrúdit : Neg; enim drenof the Heathen World, or of wicked Parents? and howmany ?. dicimursl *citatory,: ere- and with what Salvation? and alto what degree, of punifhment they dentium '& at ram bei in infantia decedentes have in the life to come, we take forunrevealed things, whichwe are fo ad exita protes : far from making Articles of our Faith, that we take it to beprefumptu- $aooS s enim eco pranen- diat Apoltolus. at iena ous arrogancy to difpute it, and meddle with the Secrets ofthe Al- laden Dei eompneloendun- mighty. The Papifis. ,themfelves are not agreed whether Infants have tier, only the pvnam damni as flint outof Heaven, or alto pnnamfenfas ? Jan- But I doubt he be- femur and manymore ( yea molt) have written for the firfc;. andPeta- moreeth theAnabaptilis morethan hewas aware vise and others for the latter. But ferret things belongtoGod. of , when he addeth , A. e i We cannot provethat all Infants are faved, nor do we prefuuse to [Obfcgnant (Sacramento) credentrbsa rem:pionem tell you what Salvation it is that they (hall have ; But we hope the beji t- peccatornm&vitam ester- cc And i amglad tofind that you take the salvationof true Believers dying nom í At Infantibus " Infants to. be fore (by thefame Covenant whichpardoned their Parents), ties adtninanfratur Ba - tifmus, non tam credenti- e t and thatyou do not peremptorilycondemnall the ref. hies quam crediturar obfrg- B. Youknow that theSynod ofDort have Paid thefame that I do of sat promaónes dins Non erednèris astern ntbtt trueBelievers Children, Art. I. See. 17. and the reft theymeddlenot ob/ignant: If fo, then to w . ith them that die in Infan-= cy', or yet are Infants A. ca But I pray you tell me your thoughts, Whether Infants themfelves no pardon is delivered cc do eritt, for Adam's :fin alone? And what remedy. is provided for and fealed by Baptifm : p J,'.f which is not found. ce them ? B. The whole tenor of the Scripture putteth me pact, doubt , that Of our guilt of nearer Divines have ftrarìgely erred , by over-looking the common Interelt Parents Sin. Let them that reie& and Communion of all Parents and Children, and appropriating our mein'this,hearAugtaliur, Original Guilt. toAdam's fin alone: But this requiretha larger Dtfputa- in Enchiria. o ç6. Paren- teem gnoq; peccatrs parus= tion by it felE At pretest confider, r. That, no Text of Scripture be obligart,nan Islam Pi' doth lo appropriate it, ormake Adamonly the Corrupter of our Na- morum fedettati tures : But only makethhim theOriginal ofour Guilt and Pravity, as he fuorum de istps api liar: y font non improbabil :áer was the Original ofour Nature: And fo he only is the Original of our vina featentia , Redaam Death and Punifhment. toccata patram in Piss, 2. That the wholefcópeof Scripture containethPromifes and Penal- tenet loos utiq; antegoam ties to Children with the Parents , for and,by the Parents fins, more per regeneratmnem ad tellamentamnovarn ineipi- plainly than anywas antecedently expreffedof Adam's Poflerity as his: ant panrtere. Reperian- Yea the very Moral Law in the Second Commandment, and in the tar plura peccata ea alia paren[nm qua etfaneo ita Proclamation of Gods Name and Nature to Mofes, Exod. 34. 6, 7. popnnt "a" nataram, which nothing butprejudice andpartiality can deny to be a valid proof, or. tuft' vanit obligant ea. of a fecondary Birth 1m derived tous. And he that will read theSacred miferecordia divisa Jab- Hiftory from the Curieoit the Seedof Cain, andCham, of the Cafe of venant. I(hmael, Éfau, Moab, Amnon ,.SaulsGrand-Children hanged, and fó on
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