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QriguM Metiers flrotii the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr . Williams ' * Library . J 27
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moral erii in proprieftie of epeech , hut an eriM thing * $ m *¦ muchr ad w * the tempter comes he hath great materials to worke upcat , & liad some in A-dam before y FaH . Neverthelesse I will not denie bidt y thuere jaaar be
each aaevill , though kvoluatary disposition , whether negative or privative , as fiiay reader a iiraa : wholly unfitte for y «* soaetie of God & his holy angels , as a man throwne into fiitbe and mire fey a bufl is uafitte to
come in y * pickle into $ r presence of a prince : y very eorraptriWtitie of oar bodies as flesh and blood mast be cleansed , or we cannot be fitte for ¥ kmgdome . of heawa , 1 Cor . xv ^ fid In opposition to this , X is said to be mads holy , Heb . vii . 26 . Some legal uncleanessea might be types of mere
humane infirmities , 6 * Y Scripture saying little of infaiits , qua . infanta aa to tUeir salvation , J leave y * to God ^ but I kaowy * by y sentence upon Adam they are all reputative sianers , and obnoxious to eternal death , w ^ , with y repu $ ative
staine w # * I have grauated , may be sufficient to satisfie the texts ^ Hedged by you p . 94 ; but X doubt y * by y like texts it may be proved y * they believe : to omit y * fayth cotneth by heareiog , I say , y * neither act nor
habit of fayth can be without some knowledge of the object to w * k it is relative : but infaata apprehend not one simple terme , much fesse do they judge or syllogyze * Obiim , p . S 4 > Jin . penult . If one died for all , then were all dead , i . e . were by -profession & engagement
dead to sinne , or all must die to ainne , as v . 15 ; so Dr . Lush : & I think truly infants are relatively holy candidates & in y * ivay , & so far to be sure X died for y y ^ tieir re p ^ utajjive sinne shall be no hindrance to y in y way to salvation , if for y ^ ptreseiit there be no incapacity in y subject .
7 . Christ was baptized , yet no sin * ner : there is no absolute oecessitie y all y ends of baptism should he preserved ; their rfelativp holynesse , their dedicatioa a ^ f honourab le to ye infants , & an « nga « eraeiit upon « their in y
parents to bring ti ^ em up nurture & tKlrDoiiition of y I > ord , may , with oth ^ r dtfcutnstances , eKCiuse y ^ doling of it , but their owne soiemne engageinent , & y grand uses of bap » tiemy . bath to them ^ l vw & others ,
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are lost . Quid feHinat innocens ottos ad remxssionem peccatortfm ?—Tertuil . I thinke It was better if they were brought to X * for liiar blessiog , i . e . to y church , for t * chiu ^ tes
prayers . 8 . If infants have no sinne , they must eyther never come to judgment —I answer , they shall be judged as they are , but how they are sinners , I haye showed . Some tliiake y * John v . 28 is alle ^ or icall of y calling ye Jews & Gentiles . -
The context in Rom . xiv , 12 , is of y adult , but compare y * place with 2 Cor . v . 10 , according- to y * he hath done ; what have infanta done ? So r * 11 , * fivery tongue shill confesse j ^ what can infants confesse ? As to Rom , iiL 20 > adde By y * law is y ^
knowledge of sinne /* i . e . we know y * we are sinners , buJ ; what doe infants know ? Are they justified by fayth ? What doe they believe ? Name one thing . » . Rom . iit 23 ^ &c . ^ m have sinaed , ** &o . How I may ffraunt y ^ all
have sinned without limitation , hath been said ; but surely there is great reason to limit y universal , v . 9 . Wee have before proved ( Rom . i . & il . of adult Pagans & Jews ) y * Jews & Gentiles , he saytk not men & infants r are all under atnne : but methinkes
y guilt of Adam ' s sinne imputed being alike in all infants , all infants should be saved . I should like yt best ; & y punishment from immediate parents , sinners , may be temporal ; y law superodded only a more valid obligation to them who trans .
gressed it , & were under it * « , \ . e . v Jews , to whom also as perfect workers it promised eternal life by rigorous exposition in a secret sense , ( yet in * tended & graunted by y Jews , ) & was y only ratified covenant in force before Xt , grace being , in Old-Testament times , extraordinary ; yet might y * law
be expositone of what was , ea * natura ret , due to y whole world as under y ^ law of nature , & merely by virtue of their works , done also by y power of nature . 10 . How infants may be . reputed sinners , I have said already , & concerning their salvation *
I derive y injmortality of y soule Qw you thinke may be ex tradube , p * 104 , as well as I ) from y resurrection of y dead , & not from philoso-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/23/
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