Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of…

Sect. 14. VI. And as thus it is evident, that even infants are not all in one state or degree of pravity, but may some be worse, and some better; so it is evident that now under a Law of Grace, not to be better than Adam maketh them, much more to become worse, (which may be, and oft is,) is not a mere penalty or fruit of the violated Law of Innocency, but a privation of that Grace which they were capable of by Christ, and so may be a penalty of the Law of Grace. Now the World hath a Physician, not to be healed is a privation of Grace, and not a mere negation only: For an infant now not to be regenerate, justified, saved, is not only a negation of that which he never had any hopes or possibility of, as it is to the damned: but it is a privation of that which he was made capable of by Christ; yea, which was conditionally given by a sealed Law of Grace to all mankind. And this privation is not ⟨p. 16⟩causeless on his part: God doth not deprive infants of this mercy only as they are the seed of Adam; for then all the seed of Adam should be so deprived of it. And to cast all upon mere secret election and reprobation, as if infants were no subjects under Law, as the rule of their right, I have in a Treatise now in the Press, proved to be the inlet of Anabaptistry, and an opinion in which we ought not to symbolize with the Anabaptists.

Sect. 14. VI. And as thus it is evident, that even infants are not all in one state or degree of pravity, but may some be worse, and some better; so it is evident that now under a Law of Grace, not to be better than Adam maketh them, much more to become worse, (which may be, and oft is,) is not a meer penalty or fruit of the violated Law of Innocency, but a privation of that Grace which they were capable of by Christ, and so may be a penalty of the Law of Grace. Now the World hath a Physitian, not to be healed is a privation of Grace, and not a meer negation only: For an infant now not to be regenerate, justified, saved, is not only a negation of that which he never had any hopes or possibility of, as it is to the damned: but it is a privation of that which he was made capable of by Christ; yea, which was conditionally given by a sealed Law of Grace to all mankind. And this privation is not ⟨p. 16⟩causeless on his part: God doth not deprive infants of this mercy only as they are the seed of Adam; for then all the seed of Adam should be so deprived of it. And to cast all upon meer secret election and reprobation, as if infants were no subjects under Law, as the rule of their right, I have in a Treatise now in the Press, proved to be the inlet of Anabaptistry, and an opinion in which we ought not to symbolize with the Anabaptists.