A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

Secondly, We must necessarily make a distinction between such as […] under the Covenant, and such whose parents and their seed are strangers […] it, and therefore with the Remonstrants to conclude, That all Infants […] born of Pagans, are surely saved, is to put no difference between […] Covenant of grace, and to be without, which yet the Scripture doth; […] it saith of the children of unbelievers that they are unclean, 1 Cor. 7. and Heathens they are said to be without; and therefore according to the Rule of the Scripture, we see no more visible way for the children of Heathens, then for Heathens themselves to be saved; but yet the Orthodox do add, that they leave these things to the judgement of God, and content themselves […] that which Paul saith, 1 Cor. 5. 12. What have I to do to judge those that are without: although the Apostle doth not there speak of a Doctrinal Judgement, but a Judgement of Jurisdiction, which Church Officers cannot exercise upon those that are without the Church, though this be so, we must always remember to put a difference between that general love of God to mankind, and that special grace of his to his Church, and therefore we must needs be injurious to this grace of God, if we make children without the Covenant to be partakers of the same special privilege which others within do receive, then the Gospel is no such extraordinary mercy, then the Covenant of grace is no such signal favour, then believing parents have no such cause to bless God for his merciful dispensations towards them, if Heathens children are in as prepared a way for reconciliation with God, as their posterity is.

Secondly, We must necessarily make a distinction between such as 〈…〉 under the Covenant, and such whose parents and their seed are strangers 〈…〉 it, and therefore with the Remorstrants to conclude, That all Infants 〈…〉 born of Pagans, are surely saved, is to put no difference between 〈…〉 Covenant of grace, and to be without, which yet the Scripture doth; 〈…〉 it saith of the children of unbelievers that they are unclean, 1 Cor. 7