An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 21. The grand Objection is, That then some Infants lose a state of Salvation when they come to age. Ans▪ This will follow; but far harder ⟨p. 224⟩things from all the rest: But, 1. This was thought no Absurdity for a Thousand years after the Apostles, when I cannot prove, that any one man thought that none of the Adult themselves fall away from true Sanctification and right to Life: When even Augustine the famous Defender of Election and Grace against Pelagius, thought that all the Elect only persevered, and that more were justified and sanctified than were Elect, and that the rest all fell away. 2. Davenant answereth this, That Infant-grace may be lost, and yet not the Grace of the Adult: Because it is but a Relative Regeneration, and an Extrinsic Remission of Sin, that giveth them Right to Impunity and Life, or if they are said to have the Spirit, it is not in a fixed Habit of Grace. If you say, They cannot be saved without real Holiness, I answer;

§. 21. The grand Objection is, That then some Infants lose a state of Salvation when they come to age. Ans▪ This will follow; but far ha•der ⟨p. 224⟩things from all the rest: But, 1. This was thought no Absurdity for a Thousand years after the Apostles, when I cannot prove, that any one man thought that none of the Adult themselves fall away from true Sanctification and right to Life: When even Augustine the famous Defender of Election and Grace against Pelagius, thought that all the Elect only persevered, and that more were justified and sanctified than were Elect, and that the rest all fell away. 2. Davenant answereth this, That Infant-grace may be lost, and yet not the Grace of the Adult: Because it is but a Relative Regeneration, and an Extrinseck Remission of Sin, that giveth them Right to Impunity and Life, or if they are said to have the Spirit, it is not in a fixed Habit of Grace. If you say, They cannot be saved without real Holiness, I answer;