An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 5. Those that think not all Infants (so dying) to be saved and glorified, are also of several minds. 1. Some think that none are glorified, as being uncapable Subjects (whom I will not bestow ⟨p. 218⟩the labour to confute, nor to open the ill Consequents of it.) 2. Some think, that some are glorified, but none are positively punished with the poena sensus. These seem to me less rational than the former: For either Infants will have actual Intellection, and answerable Joys and Sorrows, or not: If not, the former, who reduce them all to mere Potentiality, or the state of Brutes, are in the right (of whom some will have them to be Viat•res after Death in vehiculo a•reo, and some are for their Transmigration, and return to Earth.) If yea, then as one part will have rational Joys, the other must have rational Sorrows, unless some return to Earth, or some middle state, be better proved than I have yet seen.

§. 5. Those that think not all Infants (so dying) to be saved and glorified, are also of several minds. 1. Some think that none are glorified, as being uncapable Subjects (whom I will not bestow ⟨p. 218⟩the labour to confute, nor to open the ill Consequents of it.) 2. Some think, that some are glorified, but none are positively punished with the poena sensus. These seem to me less rational than the former: For either Infants will have actual Intellection, and answerable Joys and Sorrows, or not: If not, the former, who reduce them all to meer Potentiality, or the state of Brutes, are in the right (of whom some will have them to be Viat•res after Death in vehiculo a•reo, and some are for their Transmigration, and return to Earth.) If yea, then as one part will have rational Joys, the other must have rational Sorrows, unless some return to Earth, or some middle state, be better proved than I have yet seen.