The divine life in three treatises

One thing more I will propound yet to the contrary-minded; Can they say that any Infants are saved or not? If not, either they perish as brutes (which is a brutish opinion) or they live in misery; and then they had sin that did deserve it; yea if they think that any of them perish in the wrath to come, ⟨p. 90⟩it must be for sin. If they think that any of them are saved, it is either by covenant or without; there is some promise for it, or there is none. If none, then no man can say that any of them are saved. For who hath known the mind of the Lord without his Revelation? It is arrogancy to tell the world of the saving of any that God did no way reveal that he will save. But if they plead a Revelation or promise, it is either the Covenant of Nature or of Grace; a promise contained in Nature, Law or Gospel. The former cannot be affirmed, (not only because the dissenters themselves deny any such Covenant to have been in nature or any way made to Adam, but) because there is no such Covenant or promise in Nature to be found, for the Salvation of all Infants (and if not for all, then for none:) and because it is contrary to abundance of plain passages in the Scriptures, that assure us there is but One Covenant of Salvation now in force: and that all the world shall become guilty before God, and every mouth be stopped, Rom. 3. 19. and that by the deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified in his sight, v. 20. Gal. 2. 16. And if righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain, Gal. 2. 21. For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the Curse, Gal. 3. 10. And that no man is Justified by the Law in the sight of God, is evident; for the just shall live by faith; and the Law is not of faith; but, The man that doth them shall live in them And certainly the Law of nature requireth not less then Moses Law, to a mans justification, if not more. And [if there had been a Law given which could have given life, verily Righteousness should have been by the Law. But the Scripture hath concluded All under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe]