The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

Secondly, The opponent cannot but know, that there are Learned men, who hold Infants have actual faith, and do believe, Therefore to them his Argument is of no force. It may very well be thought, that they have actual sins, not such as are in men grown up, accompanied with reason and will; but those immediate motions of original corruption in them. For although original sin be not peccatum actual, yet it is, peccatum actuosum, if it be not an actual sin, yet it is an active sin, and therefore may not be thought idle in an Infant. Austin lib. 1. Confess. c. 2. Vidi ego Zelantem parvulum, &c. I have observed ⟨p. 180⟩envy in an Infant, when another little child hath sucked his breast, and so they have sinful anger, which made the same Father say, Imbecillit as m•mbrorum infantilium innocens est, non animus infantum. There is more innocency in their bodies, then in their souls. Now if there be actual motions of sin before the use of reason, why not actual motions of Gods Spirit. That it is possible, John Baptist makes it without question: all the doubt is, Whether God doth ordinarily so to Infants. Aretius is alleged by some to hold, That ^*even repentance may be attributed to Infants out of Joel 2.16. but the command there is, That parents should bring their children into the public humiliation, that by the sight of them they may be the more fervently stirred up to pour out their prayers before God.

Secondly, The opponent cannot but know, that there are Learned men, who hold Infants have actual faith, and do believe, Therefore to them his Argument is of no force. It may very well be thought, that they have actual sins, not such as are in men grown up, accompanied with reason and will; but those immediate motions of original corruption in them. For although original sin be not peccatum actuale, yet it is, peccatum actuosum, if it be not an actual sin, yet it is an active sin, and therefore may not be thought idle in an Infant. Austin lib. 1. Confes. c. 2. Vidi ego Zelantem parvulum, &c. I have observed ⟨p. 180⟩envy in an Infant, when another little childe hath sucked his breast, and so they have sinfull anger, which made the same Father say, Imbecillit as mmbrorum infantilium innocens est, non animus infantum. There is more innocency in their bodies, then in their souls. Now if there be actuall motions of sin before the use of reason, why not actuall motions of Gods Spirit. That it is possible, John Baptist makes it without question: all the doubt is, Whether God doth ordinarily so to Infants. Aretius is alledged by some to hold, That