An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 16. 12. That which I acquiesce in is this: That God who visited Adam's Sin on all his Posterity, hath in the Covenant of Grace also so joined Infants to the Parents,¹ that till they have a Will to choose for themselves, their Parents may choose for them, and dispose of them for their good, and God taketh them as Members of the Parents so far: And so he hath made many express Promises of mercy to the Faithful and their Seed, (and Threatenings to the Wicked and their Seed): And that this Mercy cannot be consistent with their Damnation; for it is to be their God, and to love and bless them, which cannot stand with damning them. And God having but one Covenant, seeing they are in the same ⟨p. 223⟩Covenant with their Parents, and not another, if it give Pardon to the Parents, it doth so also to the Child, of whom no Condition is required, but that he be offered by a believing Parent to God; whose Acceptance is Salvation.

§. 16. 12. That which I acquiesce in is this: That God who visited Adam's Sin on all his Posterity, hath in the Covenant of Grace also so joined Infants to the Parents,¹ that till they have a Will to chuse for themselves, their Parents may chuse for them, and dispose of them for their good, and God taketh them as Members of the Parents so far: And so he hath made many express Promises of mercy to the Faithful and their Seed, (and Threatnings to the Wicked and their Seed): And that this Mercy cannot be consistent with their Damnation; for it is to be their God, and to love and bless them, which cannot stand with damning them. And God having but one Covenant, seeing they are in the same ⟨p. 223⟩Covenant with their Parents, and not another, if it give Pardon to the Parents, it doth so also to the Child, of whom no Condition is required, but that he be offered by a believing Parent to God; whose Acceptance is Salvation.

1. 1See the full proof in my two Disput. of Original Sin.