More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

And to the next question, Whether Infants unbaptized when Baptism could not be had, be all damned? he answereth (Et per haec respondeo ad &c.) that is [And by this I answer your third objection, granting, that God if he will, may damn such an Infant, and do him no wrong, and if he will he can save him: And I dare not define either part: nor am I careful about reputation, or getting evidence in the case; but as a dumb man am silent, humbly confessing my ignorance, using conditional words^*; because it is not yet clear to me, ⟨p. 361⟩whether such an Infant shall be saved or damned: But I know that whatever God doth in it will be just and a work of mercy, to be praised of all the faithful: And let not them like presumptuous fools, pour out themselves, that of their own authority, without knowledge, define any thing in that matter.]—Qui autem dicit, &c. But he that saith that in this case put, an Infant shall be saved, as it is pious to believe, he doth superfluously uncertain himself^*, more than will profit him. But there are some things in Parents power though lapsed into a thing Past, for which it is necessary by Gods just judgement, that so it should come to pass: Therefore he that defineth, that neither Parents nor people so sinned, that it should so come to pass, doth speak as a Pie on the head of his own knowledge. But we believe it as a point of faith, that nothing befalls a man after the first grace, unless some part of mankind either merit or demerit, that this shall come to pass.]

And to the next qu•stion, Whether Infants unbaptized when Baptism could not be had, be all damned? he answereth (Et per haec respondeo ad &c.) that is [And by this I answer your third objection, granting, that God if he will, may damn such an Infant, and do him no wrong, and if he will he can save him: And I dare not define either part: nor am I careful about reputation, or getting evidence in the case; but as a dumb man am silent, humbly confesing my ignorance, using conditional words^*; because it is not yet clear to me, ⟨p. 361⟩