364 Me Birth- I'ricviled e and Covenant- holineJfe CL42 Iiowfoever it is agreed as direct}ly following upon their princi- ples as any conclufion can follow from its premiffes , that Infants thus dying without any Covenant or Church =intereff, do perifh. For the fecond. Proteflant Divines which affert infant- falvati4 on, (and beleeve no fuch divifion of hell into chambers , and lía e other thoughts of the condition of Infants) Dill bring this intereD of theirs in the Covenant of God as their ground, (not prying into the fecrets of Elec`lion, nor urging prerogative above that which is written) the Covenant of God, Gen. 17. 7. con - firmed by the New TeflamentScriptures before mentioned. They very well know that in cafe Papifis can wreft this Covenant -in- ttereft of Infants from them, they conclude according to Scripture ground their damnation : Luke tells us there were daily added to the Church fuch as fhould be faved, namely to the Church vi- fible,' as the Text is clear, e4îls 2.47. Now if they hand not admitible into the Church, they Hand without hope of falvation; fee how the Apofile joynes thefe together, Ephef. 2. 12. With out Chrift, being aliens from the Common.nealth of Ifrael, and flrangers from the Covenants of 2romife having no hope and without God in the world. If any can conclude againf" the inter - eft of in the Common - wealth of Ifrael (that is,the Church of God) and the Covenants of Promife ( which thofe do that wilt have them to be no Church - members, nor to be taken into Cove- nant with Parents) they fadly doome them to be without Chrifi, Without God, Without Hope. Matter Tombes himfelf difclaimes 2uinglius his opinion, Examen pag. y4. that Hercules, Socrates, Ariflides, Numa, and fuch like Heathens are now in Heaven; and it would be defired of him how he cafis thofe out, upon that account as Heathens, and takes in infants as great Drangers (according to him) to any Church- intereD. Infants want not fin for condemnation ; our firit Original eftate being a corrupt e- Date:, and by nature children of wrath, and putting them out of Çovenant,he can finde no Scripture -way to entitle them to Chrift for redemption ; he feemes to conceive other hopes of the falvaa Lion of Infants of Heathens that u-pon the fame ground he may be charitable to the Infants of Chriftians, that with him are in the fame pofiure Atli them when he fpeaks of Hercules and other Heathens as before yet (peaking of the. Infants.ofHeathens, he. faith,. P roteíian t Di- ; v ines cannot a.
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